Books like Battle Royale
12 books with a reading profile close to Battle Royale by Koushun Takami. Growth-minded; a moderate read.
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1
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
thriller, narrative
Aiden Bishop wakes up in the middle of a forest at Blackheath Manor with no recollection of his identity.
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2
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
thriller, narrative
Aiden Bishop wakes up in Blackheath House with no memory of his identity, trapped in a repeating time loop.
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3
Code Name Hélène
by Ariel Lawhon
thriller, narrative
Code Name Hélène follows the real-life activities of Nancy Wake, an Australian expat living in France during the 1930s and 40s.
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4
The Beach
by Alex Garland
thriller, narrative
Alex Garland’s novel follows Richard, a young British backpacker in Bangkok who acquires a hand-drawn map promising a hidden coastal paradise.
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5
All the Sinners Bleed
by S.A. Cosby
thriller, narrative
Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia, confronts a crisis when a school shooting leads to the death of a beloved teacher and the shooter himself.
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6
The Other Black Girl
thriller, narrative
Nella Rogers is an editorial assistant and the only Black employee at Wagner Books, a prestigious but white-dominated publishing house in New York City.
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7
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
by Tim Burton
narrative, experimental
Tim Burton’s short story collection consists of twenty-three illustrated poems detailing the lives of misunderstood children with physical abnormalities.
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8
Rage
thriller, narrative
Charlie Decker, a high school student with a history of violent outbursts, shoots two teachers and holds his algebra class hostage at gunpoint.
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9
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
by Warren Ellis
Also growth-minded · narrative, experimental
Spider Jerusalem is a cynical gonzo journalist who spent five years in self-imposed exile before returning to the City to fulfill a forgotten book contract.
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10
The Terror
by Dan Simmons
thriller, narrative
The story follows the 1845 Franklin Expedition, where HMS Erebus and HMS Terror become trapped in the thick pack ice of the Arctic’s Victoria Strait.
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11
Akira, Vol. 1
narrative, experimental
Set in the year 2019, thirty-one years after a nuclear explosion leveled Tokyo, the story follows a teenage biker gang navigating the neon-lit ruins of Neo-Tokyo.
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12
Lullaby
thriller, experimental
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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