Susanna Clarke · 2020
- What it is
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It stays with you · it's hiding a secret
- 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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Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo · 1955
A reader shelved it with yours in Magical realism where the strange feels ordinary
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
It leaves you thinking · sadness on a low heat
The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart · 1974
It stays with you · a world to get lost in
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2001
It leaves you thinking · sadness on a low heat
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Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel · 1999
It won't tell you everything at once · sad, and in no hurry
Trust
Hernán Díaz · 2022
Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
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