Yann Martel 2003
- What it is
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Surviving with everything scarce · one to read slowly
- Genre
- Literary Fantasy
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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One to read slowly and survival
My Side of the Mountain
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Like yours: survival · it'll scare you
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Like yours: survival · fierce and defiant
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In common with yours: survival · properly scary
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In common with yours: survival · properly scary
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In common with yours: survival · properly strange
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Only twist ending
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Readers put them together in Endings that make you reread page one
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Grouped with yours in Endings that make you reread page one
Prestige
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Readers put them together in Endings that make you reread page one
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane 2003
Readers put them together in Endings that make you reread page one
Fingersmith Msr
Sarah Waters 2002
A reader shelved it with yours in Endings that make you reread page one
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn 2007
In common with yours: twist ending · it tells it with no filter
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William Landay 2012
In common with yours: twist ending · it leaves you shaken
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes 2011
In common with yours: twist ending · it won't tell you everything at once
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017
Like yours: twist ending · love hurts sometimes
Little Big Man
Thomas Berger 2004
Like yours: unreliable narrator · comforting, like coming home
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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Like yours: twist ending · you'll keep turning it over for days
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