Books like I Who Have Never Known Men
Thirty-nine women are held in an underground bunker, watched by silent guards, with no idea how they got there, and the youngest, who has never known anything else, narrates what happens when an alarm sounds one day and the guards vanish.
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The Wall
A woman in an Alpine hunting lodge wakes to find the outside world apparently frozen behind an invisible wall and settles into writing the account of her survival.
The Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.
The Children of Men
In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.
The White Castle
In the seventeenth century, a young Venetian scholar captured by the Ottomans is given as a slave to Hoja, a scholar who looks exactly like him.
Life & Times of Michael K
Michael K, a gardener with a harelip and a slow way of speaking, sets out across a South Africa torn by civil war to take his sick mother back to the countryside where she grew up, and keeps trying to live on his own terms, outside every camp.
The New Wilderness
A mother and her sickly daughter join twenty volunteers exiled from a dying city into the last protected American wilderness, where the rules are the weather and each other.
Nausea
A philosopher in 1930s France discovers that the sheer existence of objects fills him with revulsion, and his diary charts the horror of a world without meaning.
The Long Walk
Every May one hundred teenage boys set out from the border between Maine and Canada on the Long Walk, a contest in an alternate America where a walker who drops below four miles an hour gets three warnings, and the last one walking wins anything he wants.
The Woman in the Dunes
A man trapped by a sandstorm in a coastal village is forced to live with a woman at the bottom of a sand pit, shoveling endlessly to keep them both alive.
The Invention of Morel
A fugitive on a deserted island watches a group of tourists who seem to repeat the same days and falls in love with a woman who never notices him.
Chess Story
On a ship to Buenos Aires, a reclusive Austrian lawyer who survived Nazi solitary confinement with a stolen book of chess problems takes on the reigning world champion.
The Unnamable
A voice, placeless and without a body it can be sure of, talks on and on, trying to say who it is and to stop talking.