Books like The Lottery
12 books with a reading profile close to The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Also open-ended and thought-provoking · horror, narrative
Set in war-weary 1947 Warwickshire, the story follows Dr.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in an Oregon psychiatric ward, the narrative follows Randle McMurphy, a boisterous criminal who fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a hospital rather than a work farm.
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The Overcoat
Also deep and open-ended · narrative, literary
Akaky Akakievich is a low-ranking government clerk in St.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lib/E
by Ken Kesey, Tom Parker
Also deep and open-ended · narrative, literary
Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the story follows Randle McMurphy, a boisterous gambler who feigns insanity to avoid a prison farm sentence.
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Silk and Insight
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in 1950s Japan, this novel dramatizes the labor dispute at a major textile factory to examine the reality of industrial paternalism.
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Ghost Wall
by Sarah Moss
Also thought-provoking · horror, narrative
Seventeen-year-old Silvie joins her father, Bill, on a historical reenactment camp in the Northumbrian wilderness.
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The Lottery and Other Stories
Also open-ended and thought-provoking · horror, literary
This collection of twenty-five stories describes the unsettling realities hidden beneath the surface of mid-century American domesticity.
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Pygmalion
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Professor Henry Higgins, a specialist in phonetics, bets that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a duchess by altering her speech and manners.
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The Ballad of Black Tom
Also thought-provoking · horror, narrative
Tommy Tester is a young Black hustler in 1920s Harlem who earns a living with a guitar and a few small cons.
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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Also deep · horror, literary
This collection gathers the foundational works of American Gothic literature, combining short fiction and verse that define the macabre.
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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
A retired colonel in a small Colombian town has waited fifteen years for the pension he was promised after serving in a civil war.
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ILL - One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In Dale Wasserman’s 1970 stage adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel, the narrative centers on Randle P.
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