Books like A Brief History of Seven Killings
12 books with a reading profile close to A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.
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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
Also deep and open-ended · history, dense
Nick Shay, a waste management executive, tracks a baseball hit by Bobby Thomson during the 1951 Giants-Dodgers pennant game.
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Milkman
by Anna Burns
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Middle sister lives in an unnamed city under the shadow of paramilitary violence and state surveillance, reminiscent of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
Also deep and open-ended · history, dense
Eliza Touchet is housekeeper and cousin to the novelist William Harrison Ainsworth in Victorian London.
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Ghostwritten
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
David Mitchell’s debut novel connects nine disparate characters across the globe through a series of interlocking narratives.
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How to be Both
by Ali Smith
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
This novel connects two distinct eras through a dual-narrative structure that can be read in either order.
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To Paradise
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
This novel follows three distinct narratives set in a reimagined New York City across different centuries.
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Number9Dream
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Nineteen-year-old Eiji Miyake travels from rural Yakushima to the neon-drenched cityscape of Tokyo to find the father he has never met.
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The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Oskar Matzerath, an inmate in a mental institution, narrates his life through his toy tin drum.
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Midnight’s Children
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Saleem Sinai is born at the exact stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, linking his life to the birth of independent India.
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A Mercy
Also deep and open-ended · history, dense
In the 1680s, a Virginia trader named Jacob Vaark takes a small girl, Florens, as payment for a debt, and brings her to his farm.
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The Satanic Verses
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Two Indian expatriates, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, survive a mid-air plane explosion over the English Channel and undergo startling physical transformations.
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
by Iain Pears
Also deep and open-ended · history, dense
Set in 1660s Oxford, the novel centers on the suspicious death of Dr.
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