Books like Foe
12 books with a reading profile close to Foe by Iain Reid. Inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.
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1
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Also open-ended · horror, science fiction
In a subterranean complex, an omniscient military supercomputer named AM has eradicated humanity except for five survivors.
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2
The Last House on Needless Street
Also inward-looking and open-ended · thriller, horror
In a boarded-up house at the end of a dead-end street, Ted Corden lives in isolation with his daughter, Lauren, and his religious cat, Olivia.
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3
A Certain Hunger
Also inward-looking · thriller, horror
Dorothy Daniels is a high-profile food critic in New York whose sophisticated palate demands absolute sensory fulfillment.
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4
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
thriller, horror
Frank Cauldhame is a sixteen-year-old living on a remote Scottish island, where he maintains a series of elaborate, violent rituals involving animal sacrifice and makeshift explosives.
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5
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
by Mary Shelley
Also inward-looking · horror, science fiction
Victor Frankenstein, a natural philosophy student in Ingolstadt, assembles a living human form from scavenged body parts using laboratory chemistry and galvanism.
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6
Under the Skin
by Michel Faber
Also inward-looking and open-ended · horror, science fiction
Isserley drives the lonely roads of the Scottish Highlands searching for muscular male hitchhikers to pick up in her modified vehicle.
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7
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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8
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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9
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
by Iain Reid
Also inward-looking and open-ended · thriller, horror
The story begins with a young woman traveling with her boyfriend, Jake, to meet his parents at their secluded farmhouse.
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10
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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11
Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
Also open-ended · thriller, literary
Amanda and Clay, a white middle-class couple from Brooklyn, rent a remote vacation home in Long Island with their two teenage children.
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12
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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