Books like Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents…
12 books with a reading profile close to Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents… by Alan Moore. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.
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The Savage Detectives
Also deep and open-ended · dense, narrative
The story begins in 1970s Mexico City through the diary of Juan García Madero, a law student drawn into a circle of radical poets known as the visceral realists.
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NW
by Zadie Smith
Also deep and open-ended · dense, narrative
NW focuses on four Londoners—Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan—who grew up in the Caldwell council estate in the NW6 postcode.
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by Paul Auster
Also deep and open-ended · dense, narrative
Archie Ferguson is born in Newark in 1947, the son of a Jewish furniture-store owner.
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Girl, Woman, Other
Also deep and thought-provoking · dense, narrative
This collective narrative tracks the interconnected lives of twelve characters, mostly Black British women, spanning different generations, social classes, and gender identities.
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Ghostwritten
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
David Mitchell’s debut novel connects nine disparate characters across the globe through a series of interlocking narratives.
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Milkman
by Anna Burns
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Middle sister lives in an unnamed city under the shadow of paramilitary violence and state surveillance, reminiscent of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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The People in the Trees
Also deep and open-ended · dense, narrative
Norton Perina, an ambitious young immunologist, travels to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in 1950 to investigate a lost tribe.
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How to be Both
by Ali Smith
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
This novel connects two distinct eras through a dual-narrative structure that can be read in either order.
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Number9Dream
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
Nineteen-year-old Eiji Miyake travels from rural Yakushima to the neon-drenched cityscape of Tokyo to find the father he has never met.
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To Paradise
Also deep and open-ended · dense, literary
This novel follows three distinct narratives set in a reimagined New York City across different centuries.
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Killing Commendatore
Also deep and open-ended · narrative, literary
A portrait painter in Tokyo is left by his wife and drives around Japan before settling into the mountain house of the famous painter Tomohiko Amada, now in a care home.
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North Woods
by Daniel Mason
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
A single yellow house in the Massachusetts forest anchors this narrative, which spans four centuries through a series of interlocking stories.
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