Books like The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
12 books with a reading profile close to The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.
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The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
by Neil Gaiman
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
The ninth volume follows Lyta Hall as she descends into madness after the disappearance of her son, Daniel.
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
A lonely cartographer finds himself drawn to a mysterious walled city, a place that seems to exist in a liminal space between reality and dream.
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The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
by Neil Gaiman
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Delirium, the youngest of the Endless, convinces her brother Dream to help find their missing sibling, Destruction, who abandoned his realm three centuries ago to pursue mortality.
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4
Kafka on the Shore
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
The narrative follows fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home to escape an Oedipal curse prophesied by his father.
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5
No One Is Talking About This
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
The first half of the narrative follows a woman who has achieved minor celebrity status within a digital landscape called the portal.
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Jesus’ Son
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Eleven linked stories follow a drifting narrator through the drug-addled margins of the American Midwest and Pacific Northwest in the 1970s.
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The Nix
by Nathan Hill
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
by Elif Shafak
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tequila Leila, a sex worker in Istanbul, has been murdered and dumped in a trash bin.
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Also deep · narrative, literary
The narrative centers on Bennie Salazar, a middle-aged record executive, and his assistant Sasha, tracing their lives across several decades.
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Bridge of Clay
by Markus Zusak
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Matthew Dunbar, the eldest of five brothers, tells how the boys were raised alone in a Sydney house after their mother's death and their father's disappearance.
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11
Everything is Illuminated
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
A young American named Jonathan Safran Foer travels to post-Soviet Ukraine to locate Augustine, a woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
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12
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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