Books like The Raw Shark Texts
A man discovers he is being pursued by a conceptual shark made of raw data, and the only way to survive is to reconstruct his own lost memories.
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
In alternating chapters, a data encryptor in Tokyo is caught up in a corporate and underworld conspiracy, while a newcomer in a walled town at the end of the world reads old dreams from the skulls of unicorns.
Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami's debut: in the summer of 1970, a college student home on break drinks beer with his friend the Rat at J's Bar, meets a girl with nine fingers and listens to the radio, learning how to be alone.
number9dream
Eiji Miyake, a young man from a small island, comes to Tokyo to find the father he has never met, and his search slides between reality, daydreams and video games.
Darkmans
In Ashford, Kent, a hospital laundry manager, his drug-dealing son and the people around them find that something from the fifteenth century, perhaps a royal court jester, is working its way into the present.
Vurt
In a future Manchester, Scribble and his gang take feathers that send them into the Vurt, a shared dream world, and Scribble's sister Desdemona has been lost inside it.
When We Were Orphans
A detective in 1930s Shanghai investigates his parents' disappearance while the city descends into war, and his memories prove less reliable than he believes.
Journey to the East
H. H., a musician, recalls his part in a secret League's pilgrimage to the East, a journey across time and imagination that fell apart when the humble servant Leo vanished.
Lanark
A man with no memory arrives by train in Unthank, a city without daylight where people grow dragonhide and disappear, and names himself Lanark. Between his chapters the novel tells the life of Duncan Thaw, an asthmatic art student in postwar Glasgow.
Hell of a Book
A Black author on a book tour and a boy fleeing violence alternate chapters in a novel about race, storytelling, and whose pain gets to be seen.
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.
Piranesi
A gentle man lives alone in an endless house of marble halls and tidal seas, keeping meticulous journals, until signs of another visitor make him question who he is and how he got there.
Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.