Books like Foucault's Pendulum
Three Milan editors invent a conspiracy theory as a joke, linking the Templars to every secret society in history, and then discover that some people believe it.
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The Name of the Rose
A medieval monk and his novice investigate a series of murders in a labyrinthine Italian abbey, using Aristotelian logic against apocalyptic zealotry.
The Twenty-Seventh City
St. Louis's new police chief, a former Bombay officer, quietly takes over the city through a conspiracy of influence, blackmail and real estate, and only one civic leader resists.
Erasure
Thelonious Ellison, a Black experimental novelist told his work is not Black enough, writes a grotesque parody of a ghetto novel under a pseudonym, and it becomes a bestseller.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
In a Nigeria lightly fictionalised, a surgeon and his oldest friend, an engineer about to take up a post at the United Nations, discover that someone is trafficking in body parts from the hospital.
Bleeding Edge
A fraud investigator in post-9/11 New York discovers that the tech startup she's examining may be connected to something far more dangerous than financial crime.
The Black Book
Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, comes home to find his wife Rüya gone, and the same day her half-brother Celâl, a famous newspaper columnist, disappears too.
The Infatuations
María Dolz, an editor at a Madrid publishing house, has watched a happy couple at her café every morning, until she reads that the husband has been stabbed to death in the street, and she befriends his widow.
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Baron Béla Wenckheim, a gambler who has spent years in exile in Argentina, comes back to his Hungarian home town to find his first love, and the town prepares to welcome a saviour.
If on a winter's night a traveler
A Reader begins a novel called If on a winter's night a traveler, but the book keeps breaking off and restarting as a different novel, ten times.
Labyrinths
Stories, essays and parables that fold in on themselves, infinite libraries, forking paths, mirrors and labyrinths of time and identity, gathered in the classic English selection of Borges.
Seeing
The sequel to Blindness: the city holds an election where every ballot is cast blank, and the government's response reveals that democracy's greatest threat is its own defenders.
The Unconsoled
A concert pianist arrives at a European hotel for a performance and discovers that the building, the city, and his schedule are shifting according to a dream logic he can't control.