Books like The Wasp Factory
12 books with a reading profile close to The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
Lullaby
thriller, horror
Carl Streator is a newspaper reporter writing about sudden infant deaths when he notices that each of the babies had a copy of the same book of poems, which includes a lullaby from an African culling song.
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2
Revenge
by Yōko Ogawa
horror, literary
This collection of eleven interlocking short stories functions as a macabre jigsaw puzzle set in contemporary Japan.
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3
Paradise Rot
by Jenny Hval
Also deep · horror, literary
Jo, a Norwegian biology student, moves into a cavernous, converted brewery in an industrial English town.
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4
Geek Love
horror, literary
Aloysius Binewski and his wife Crystal Lil deliberately breed a family of human oddities by ingesting toxic chemicals and radioactive isotopes during pregnancy.
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5
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Also deep · horror, literary
On April Fools' Day, the inmates of Arkham Asylum seize control of the facility and demand that Batman join them inside.
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6
Cursed Bunny
by Bora Chung
Also deep · horror, literary
Bora Chung's collection of Korean short fiction brings together stories that mix horror, science fiction and fairy-tale cruelty.
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7
Black Hole
Also deep · horror, literary
Set in the suburbs of Seattle during the mid-1970s, this graphic novel depicts a group of teenagers who contract a sexually transmitted plague known as the Bug.
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8
Our Wives Under the Sea
horror, literary
Miri’s wife, Leah, returns from a deep-sea research expedition that lasted months longer than scheduled.
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9
Der Sandmann
Also deep · horror, literary
Nathanael, a student, remains haunted by a childhood trauma involving the death of his father and a terrifying figure called the Sandman, whom he associates with the lawyer Coppelius.
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10
All's Well
by Mona Awad
horror, literary
Miranda Fitch is a theater professor suffering from chronic back pain that has derailed her acting career and isolated her from her skeptical colleagues.
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11
In the Miso Soup
by Ryū Murakami
thriller, horror
Kenji is a young man in Tokyo who offers nightlife tours to foreign visitors through the sex clubs and bars of Kabukicho.
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12
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
by Eric LaRocca
horror, literary
Two women, Agnes and Ashley, meet in an online chat room in the early 2000s and begin an intense correspondence.
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