Books like Ghostwritten
12 books with a reading profile close to Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Nick Shay, a waste management executive, tracks a baseball hit by Bobby Thomson during the 1951 Giants-Dodgers pennant game.
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Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents…
by Alan Moore
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Watchmen's first issue opens in 1985, in an alternate America where costumed heroes exist, Richard Nixon is still president, and nuclear war with the Soviet Union seems near.
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
In December 1976, seven gunmen stormed Bob Marley’s residence in Kingston, Jamaica, an event that serves as the pivot for this narrative spanning three decades.
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8
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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The Crying of Lot 49
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Oedipa Maas is appointed executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul and her former lover.
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10
Cloud Atlas
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Cloud Atlas follows six interlocking narratives that span from the mid-nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean to a post-apocalyptic Hawaiian future.
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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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12
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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