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Kitchen by Banana YoshimotoStrange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi KawakamiThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiThe Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Books to read if you like reading Haruki Murakami
117 books — 33 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Best Literary Mysteries
2,654 books — 4,912 voters

Titanshade by Dan StoutThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterThe City & the City by China MiévilleThe Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
Post-modern Detective Novels
47 books — 36 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Unconventional, Seductive, Intelligent and Dizzyingly Surreal
745 books — 389 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters
1984 by George OrwellDracula by Bram StokerA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shining by Stephen KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Quality Dark Fiction
2,638 books — 3,631 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessHoly Bible by AnonymousNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Weirdest Books Ever
1,184 books — 1,194 voters
The Shining by Stephen KingWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyPines by Blake Crouch
Books Like Twin Peaks
50 books — 31 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WThe Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark FrostA Head Full of Ghosts by Paul TremblaySolaris by Stanisław Lem
If you liked Twin Peaks...
27 books — 15 voters
The Unknown Craftsman by Soetsu YanagiA Craftsman’s Legacy by Eric GorgesWhy We Make Things and Why It Matters by Peter KornThe Golden Thread by Kassia St. ClairThe Craftsman by Richard Sennett
Literary examinations and celebrations of fine craft
84 books — 4 voters

Beowulf by UnknownThe Odyssey by HomerThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Iliad by HomerAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Mythology/Folklore
579 books — 218 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCandide by Voltaire
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
271 books — 94 voters


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