Books like Lost Children Archive
12 books with a reading profile close to Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Assembly
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
In this concise novel, an unnamed Black British woman prepares for a weekend party at her white boyfriend’s family estate.
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2
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu, a background actor trapped in the repetitive hierarchy of a procedural television show titled Black and White.
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3
Pastoralia
Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, experimental
George Saunders' collection mixes satire, dark comedy and surreal settings, with working-class characters who struggle against a strange economy.
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4
Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · literary, experimental
Ling Ma’s collection contains eight stories where the surreal intersects with the mundane.
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Orlando
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
The narrative follows Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman who begins as a favorite of the court and lives for over three centuries without aging significantly.
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6
Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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The Passion
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Henri is a young French peasant who becomes Napoleon's personal cook and follows the emperor's armies, as he worships the emperor.
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8
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
The narrative follows the Swart family, white farmers living near Pretoria, across four funerals spanning four decades of South African history.
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9
Surfacing
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
An unnamed female protagonist returns to her childhood home on a desolate island in northern Quebec to investigate her father's unexplained disappearance.
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10
The Employees
by Olga Ravn
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Set aboard the Six-Thousand Ship orbiting the planet New Discovery, the narrative unfolds through a series of witness statements delivered to an anonymous committee.
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11
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Oscar de León is an overweight Dominican nerd living in New Jersey who obsesses over science fiction, fantasy novels, and falling in love.
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12
The Nix
by Nathan Hill
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Samuel Andresen-Anderson, a disappointed English professor who is addicted to an online video game, sees his mother Faye on the news after decades of absence: she has been arrested for throwing gravel at a right-wing pr…
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