Books like Skinny Legs and All
12 books with a reading profile close to Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
by Tom Robbins
Also open-ended · entertainment, literary
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormously oversized thumbs, a biological anomaly she utilizes to become the greatest hitchhiker in the United States.
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Another Roadside Attraction
by Tom Robbins
Also open-ended · entertainment, literary
Amanda, a young woman from the South, and her husband John Paul Ziller open a roadside zoo and hot-dog stand in the state of Washington, called Captain Ahab's Discount Zoo.
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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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Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
Also thought-provoking · entertainment, literary
Wilbur Swain, last president of the United States, is writing his memoirs from the ruins of Manhattan, now called the Island of Death.
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1985
by Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
Anthony Burgess divides this work into a critical analysis and a fictional response to George Orwell’s dystopian vision.
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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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Breakfast of Champions
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
Kilgore Trout, an aging and obscure science fiction writer, travels across a decaying American landscape to a high-stakes arts festival in Midland City.
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, experimental
In this dystopian novel, the United States prison system operates as a televised death match.
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Assembly
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.
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Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma
Also thought-provoking · literary, experimental
Ling Ma’s collection contains eight stories where the surreal intersects with the mundane.
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Lost Children Archive
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
A family of four travels by car from New York City to the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.
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