Books like Audition
12 books with a reading profile close to Audition by Ryū Murakami. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
A Certain Hunger
thriller, horror
Dorothy Daniels is a high-profile food critic in New York whose sophisticated palate demands absolute sensory fulfillment.
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2
Lullaby
thriller, horror
Carl Streator is a newspaper reporter writing about sudden infant deaths when he notices that each of the babies had a copy of the same book of poems, which includes a lullaby from an African culling song.
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3
Let the Right One In
thriller, horror
Set in the bleak suburbs of 1980s Stockholm, the story follows Oskar, a lonely, bullied twelve-year-old who spends his nights fantasizing about violent revenge against his classmates.
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4
The Long Walk
thriller, horror
In a dystopian America, one hundred teenage boys compete in an annual endurance contest organized by a military regime.
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5
The Cabin at the End of the World
thriller, horror
Seven-year-old Wen and her fathers, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote New Hampshire cabin when four strangers armed with specialized tools surround the house.
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6
Full Dark, No Stars
by Stephen King
thriller, horror
Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four long stories centered on the capacity for violence within ordinary people.
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7
The Devil All the Time
thriller, horror
Set in the rural backwoods of Ohio and West Virginia between World War II and the 1960s, the narrative follows Arvin Russell, a young man haunted by his father’s traumatizing religious sacrifices.
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8
Bones & All
horror, literary
Maren Yearly is a teenage girl who is abandoned by her father and left alone in a world where she cannot control a terrible hunger, as she is an "eater," one who feeds on human flesh.
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9
Exquisite Corpse
horror, literary
Andrew Compton, a British serial killer who escapes a life sentence by faking his own death, arrives in New Orleans to resume his search for the perfect victim.
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10
Different Seasons
by Stephen King
thriller, horror
This collection contains four novellas, each corresponding to a different season.
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11
Natural Beauty
horror, literary
A daughter of immigrant musicians accepts a job at Holistique, a luxury wellness firm in New York City, to fund her parents' long-term medical care.
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12
In the Miso Soup
by Ryū Murakami
thriller, horror
Kenji is a young man in Tokyo who offers nightlife tours to foreign visitors through the sex clubs and bars of Kabukicho.
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