Books like Lost Girls
12 books with a reading profile close to Lost Girls by Alan Moore. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma
literary, experimental
Ling Ma’s collection contains eight stories where the surreal intersects with the mundane.
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2
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
literary, experimental
In the late 1960s, Charles Bukowski wrote a weekly column for the underground newspaper Open City in Los Angeles, and this book collects those pieces.
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Haunted
literary, experimental
Twenty-three people answer an ad for a writers' retreat in an abandoned theater, expecting a quiet place to work.
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5
Pastoralia
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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6
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
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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7
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
by Eric LaRocca
literary, experimental
Two women, Agnes and Ashley, meet in an online chat room in the early 2000s and begin an intense correspondence.
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8
Our Wives Under the Sea
literary, experimental
Miri’s wife, Leah, returns from a deep-sea research expedition that lasted months longer than scheduled.
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9
Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins
literary, experimental
Alobar, an eighth-century king who refuses to die, escapes his ritual execution and begins an odyssey across centuries alongside a clever peasant girl named Kudra.
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10
Lullaby
literary, experimental
Carl Streator is a newspaper reporter writing about sudden infant deaths when he notices that each of the babies had a copy of the same book of poems, which includes a lullaby from an African culling song.
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11
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
by Tim Burton
literary, experimental
Tim Burton’s short story collection consists of twenty-three illustrated poems detailing the lives of misunderstood children with physical abnormalities.
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12
Mona Lisa Overdrive
literary, experimental
The narrative follows four converging plotlines eight years after the events of Count Zero: a young Japanese girl sent to London for safety, a prostitute named Mona who undergoes surgical alteration to impersonate a fam…
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