Books like The Double
A man discovers his exact double in a rented film, and the encounter destabilises his identity, his marriage, and his grip on what's real.
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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.
Death with Interruptions
On New Year's Day in an unnamed country, death stops killing, and as the old fail to die, the funeral industry collapses and the church panics, until death returns with new rules.
The Scapegoat
An Englishman meets his French doppelgänger in a provincial railway bar, and wakes up having been forced to take over the stranger's life.
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.
Enduring Love
A man witnesses a balloon accident that kills a stranger, and the encounter triggers a stalker's obsessive love that he cannot prove or escape.
Steppenwolf
A middle-aged intellectual in Weimar Germany is torn between bourgeois respectability and the wildness inside him, guided by a mysterious figure through the theatres of his psyche.
The Trial
A man is arrested, tried, and condemned by a court whose charges are never explained, in a parable about bureaucracy, guilt, and the absurdity of power.
The Magus
Nicholas Urfe, a young English teacher on a Greek island, falls under the spell of a rich recluse, Maurice Conchis, whose elaborate psychological games leave him unable to tell what is real.
Pincher Martin
Christopher Martin, a naval officer torpedoed in the Atlantic during the Second World War, drags himself onto a bare rock in the ocean and fights to stay alive.
A General Theory of Oblivion
Ludo, an agoraphobic Portuguese woman in Luanda, bricks herself into her apartment on the eve of Angolan independence in 1975 and lives there alone for nearly thirty years.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A story collection that threads transcripts of interviews with men about how they treat women among other experimental stories, from a boy on a high diving board to a depressed woman who cannot stop talking about her pain.
The Intuitionist
When an elevator crashes on her watch, the first Black woman in the city's Department of Elevator Inspectors hunts for a lost blueprint of the perfect elevator to clear her name.