Books like Grotesque
12 books with a reading profile close to Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino. Deep, growth-minded and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Maali Almeida, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man, wakes up dead in a visa office in the afterlife with no idea how he died.
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2
De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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3
The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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4
The Round House
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
In 1988 on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts seeks justice after a violent physical and sexual assault leaves his mother, Geraldine, traumatized and silent.
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5
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Also deep · narrative, mystery
In this alternate history set in the Alaskan panhandle, the Sitka District serves as a temporary federal preserve for Jewish refugees after the collapse of Israel in 1948.
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6
I Have Some Questions for You
narrative, mystery
Bodie Kane, a successful film scholar and podcaster, returns to Granby School, the New Hampshire boarding school where she spent four uncomfortable years.
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7
Disappearing Earth
narrative, mystery
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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8
Deacon King Kong
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969, the story begins when Sportcoat, an aging, hard-drinking church deacon, shoots a young drug dealer named Deems Clemens in broad daylight.
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9
The Wonder
narrative, mystery
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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10
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
narrative, mystery
Set in the smog-laden streets of Victorian London, the story follows Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among a family of petty thieves and fences.
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11
Snow Falling on Cedars
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Set in 1954 on the fictional San Piedro Island, the narrative centers on the murder trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American fisherman accused of killing Carl Heine.
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12
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
narrative, mystery
In 1996, restless teenagers Frankie Budge and Zeke create a cryptic poster featuring a drawing of a person holding a severed head and a mysterious sentence about a "coal child." They secretly photocopy and distribute th…
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