Books like The Strange Library
12 books with a reading profile close to The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami. Open-ended; an easy read.
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Faeries
by Brian Froud
accessible, literary
Brian Froud and Alan Lee present a biological and historical survey of the inhabitants of the British Isles’ invisible realms.
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Higglety pigglety pop! ; and, Where the wild things are
by Maurice Sendak, Oliver Knussen
accessible, literary
This volume contains the librettos and production designs for two operas based on Maurice Sendak’s picture books.
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Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
accessible, literary
This short story collection presents surreal scenarios as metaphors for the complexities of modern intimacy.
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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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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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Flotsam
accessible, literary
A science-minded boy beachcombing for washed-up treasures finds an encrusted, antique underwater camera.
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Mercy
by Jodi Picoult
accessible, literary
Cam MacDonald is a police chief in a small Massachusetts town, and he is happily married to his wife Allie.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Also 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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Going Bovine
by Libba Bray
Also open-ended · literary, experimental
Sixteen-year-old Cameron Smith lives a listless existence until he is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal condition commonly known as Mad Cow Disease.
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Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
accessible, literary
Emira Tucker, a twenty-five-year-old Black babysitter, is confronted by a security guard in a high-end grocery store and accused of kidnapping the white toddler in her care.
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
by Tom Robbins
Also open-ended · literary, experimental
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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