R. F. Kuang · 2025
- What it is
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It stays with you
- Genre
- Fantasy Literary
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
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Ballad of Black Tom
Victor D. LaValle · 2016
It leaves something behind · hard, and nobody dresses it up
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez · 2019
It leaves you thinking · something is lurking
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
It leaves you thinking · sadness on a low heat
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid · 2016
It leaves something behind · it leaves you short of breath
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1986
It stays with you · with fire in it
The secret history
Donna Tartt · 1992
As unflinching and tense as yours, only more bittersweet and contemplative
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