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Books like Sexing the Cherry

12 books with a reading profile close to Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

A family of four travels by car from New York City to the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.
2

Pastoralia

by George Saunders

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.
3

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.
4

Assembly

by Natasha Brown

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

In this concise novel, an unnamed Black British woman prepares for a weekend party at her white boyfriend’s family estate.
5

Bliss Montage

by Ling Ma

Also thought-provoking · literary, experimental

Ling Ma’s collection contains eight stories where the surreal intersects with the mundane.
6

Number9Dream

by David Mitchell

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

Nineteen-year-old Eiji Miyake travels from rural Yakushima to the neon-drenched cityscape of Tokyo to find the father he has never met.
7

Amerika

by Franz Kafka

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

Karl Rossmann is a teenager banished by his parents to America after a scandal with a maid.
8

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

The poem recounts a sailor’s harrowing sea voyage that spirals into disaster after he shoots an albatross without provocation.
9

Erasure

by Percival Everett

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is a professor and experimental novelist whose books are praised but sell badly.
10

The Employees

by Olga Ravn

Also deep and open-ended · 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.
11

Clevinger's trial (from 'Catch-22')

by Joseph Heller

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

Joseph Heller’s standalone play, Clevinger’s Trial, adapts the eighth chapter of his novel Catch-22 into a rhythmic, one-act script.
12

Ghostwritten

by David Mitchell

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

David Mitchell’s debut novel connects nine disparate characters across the globe through a series of interlocking narratives.

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