Books like At Night All Blood is Black
12 books with a reading profile close to At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Reader
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · history, narrative
In late 1950s West Germany, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg begins a secret sexual affair with Hanna Schmitz, a tram conductor twice his age.
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2
The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
Also deep and thought-provoking · history, narrative
In the early seventeenth century, a young servant girl escapes a starving, disease-ridden colonial settlement in North America, fleeing alone into the winter wilderness.
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C Pam Zhang
Also deep and thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set against the declining years of the American Gold Rush, the novel follows Lucy and Sam, two orphaned siblings of Chinese descent, as they carry their father’s decomposing body across a harsh western landscape.
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L'Avversario
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, and his parents before attempting to take his own life.
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5
House of Sand and Fog
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Kathy Nicolo, a recovering addict, loses her small California bungalow due to a bureaucratic tax error.
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Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Wandering Stars traces a lineage of a Cheyenne family from the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and the forced assimilation at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School to the present day.
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Skippy Dies
by Paul Murray
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Skippy is a fourteen-year-old boarding school student at Seabrook College, a Catholic school in Dublin, who dies in the first pages after collapsing in a doughnut shop.
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The Known World
Also deep and inward-looking · history, narrative
Set in antebellum Virginia, the narrative centers on Henry Townsend, a black man who, having purchased his own freedom, becomes a master himself and owns thirty-three slaves.
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History of Wolves
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Fourteen-year-old Linda lives in a former commune in the woods of Northern Minnesota, isolated by her parents’ counterculture lifestyle and her own social alienation.
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Crossroads
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In suburban Chicago on a single day in 1971, the Hildebrandt family faces individual crises of faith and morality.
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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in London during and immediately after the Second World War, the narrative moves backward in time from 1947 to 1941.
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Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Alice Munro's collection has eight stories, many set in rural Ontario.
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