Books like The Visible Man
A therapist recounts her sessions with a patient who claims to have built a suit that makes him almost invisible, which he uses to watch people when they think they are alone.
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The Bird's Nest
Elizabeth Richmond, a meek museum clerk, starts receiving threatening letters she seems to have written herself, and her doctor discovers she is sharing her body with several other women.
Little Eyes
In a near-future where people use small robotic animals to spy on each other, the intimacy of surveillance becomes a new kind of human connection.
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.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
The Pisces
Stuck on her dissertation about Sappho and newly dumped, Lucy house-sits her sister's place on Venice Beach, minds the dog, goes to group therapy and falls for a swimmer she meets on the rocks who turns out to be a merman.
Big Swiss
Greta, who transcribes the recorded sessions of a sex and relationship coach in Hudson, New York, falls for a client she knows only as Big Swiss, and when she meets her by chance at the dog park, she starts an affair built on a lie.
The Passenger
In 1980, Bobby Western, a salvage diver in New Orleans, dives on a crashed private jet and finds that one passenger is missing, and soon men in suits come asking questions, while he is haunted by his brilliant dead sister.
The Dream Hotel
Coming home from a conference, Sara Hussein, a mother of twins, is detained at Los Angeles airport because an algorithm reading her dreams has judged that she is likely to commit a crime, and she is sent to a retention centre for observation.
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.
Fortune Smiles
Six stories, among them two North Korean defectors struggling to adjust to life in Seoul and a former Stasi prison warden in Berlin who cannot admit what happened there.
The Topeka School
In 1990s Topeka, Adam Gordon, a high school debate champion whose parents are psychologists at a renowned clinic, navigates competition, toxic masculinity and a lonely classmate's slow-burning anger, in a novel about where today's American speech came from.
The Lottery and Other Stories
Stories of suburban menace and domestic cruelty, anchored by the infamous title story of a village ritual.