Books like We Have Always Lived in the Castle
12 books with a reading profile close to We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Bernadette Dunne. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Things We Lost in the Fire
Also deep · horror, narrative
Twelve stories show Argentina through ghosts, curses and urban violence.
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Also deep · horror, narrative
Mariana Enriquez's stories are set in Argentina, where ordinary streets and houses harbor ghosts, curses and political horror.
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The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking and open-ended · horror, narrative
Set in war-weary 1947 Warwickshire, the story follows Dr.
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Elena Knows
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Elena, an aging woman in Argentina, navigates the physical rigidity caused by advanced Parkinson's disease to investigate her daughter Rita’s death.
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The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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The Round House
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
In 1988 on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts seeks justice after a violent physical and sexual assault leaves his mother, Geraldine, traumatized and silent.
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De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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Boy Parts
by Eliza Clark
horror, narrative
Irina is a professional photographer in Newcastle who specializes in scouting attractive, often awkward men in public spaces to model for her provocative, voyeuristic portfolios.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Maali Almeida, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay man, wakes up dead in a visa office in the afterlife with no idea how he died.
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The Blind Assassin
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Iris Chase Griffen narrates a multi-layered history centered on the 1945 death of her sister, Laura, and the decline of their family’s industrial wealth in Port Ticonderoga.
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Set in 1954 on the fictional San Piedro Island, the narrative centers on the murder trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American fisherman accused of killing Carl Heine.
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