Books like Gun, With Occasional Music
12 books with a reading profile close to Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The City & the City
mystery, science fiction
Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad begins a routine murder investigation in Besźel, a crumbling city that geographically overlaps with the prosperous, modern metropolis of Ul Qoma.
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2
The Windup Girl
science fiction, literary
In a future Bangkok, the world struggles under the collapse of the global petroleum economy and the rise of bioterrorism.
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3
Automatic Noodle
science fiction, literary
Set in a future shaped by the evolution of sentient labor, Automatic Noodle follows a specialized service robot that gains self-awareness through a technical glitch.
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4
The Power
science fiction, literary
Teenage girls across the globe suddenly develop a physical organ called a skein, located near their collarbones, which allows them to discharge lethal electricity from their fingertips.
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5
The Club Dumas
mystery, literary
Lucas Corso is a cynical "book detective" hired to authenticate a rare manuscript fragment from Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers.
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The Prestige
mystery, science fiction
In the late nineteenth century, two stage magicians, Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier, become rivals after an accident at a séance.
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The Mountain in the Sea
by Ray Nayler
science fiction, literary
Marine biologist Ha Nguyen travels to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to study a colony of octopuses that has developed a sophisticated culture, a symbolic language, and a defensive autonomy.
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8
The Bees
by Laline Paull
science fiction, literary
Flora 717 is born into the lowest caste of a rigid apiary society, a sanitation worker destined for silent labor.
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9
The Heart Goes Last
science fiction, literary
Set in a near-future economic collapse, the story follows Stan and Charmaine, a couple living in their car to avoid roving gangs.
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10
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
mystery, literary
In Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a warehouse roof.
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11
The Gone World
mystery, science fiction
NCIS investigator Shannon Moss travels through prospective future timelines to solve the 1997 murder of a Navy SEAL’s family and locate a missing teenage girl.
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12
The Great Dune Trilogy
science fiction, literary
This omnibus gathers the first three novels in Frank Herbert's science fiction saga.
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