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Ian McEwan · 2004

Genre: Literary
Feels: Unflinching Contemplative Tense Atmospheric Dark

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Donna Tartt · 1992

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As unflinching and contemplative as yours, only more bittersweet

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Quiet American

Graham Greene · 1955

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Our Share of Night

Mariana Enríquez · 2019

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Something is lurking

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Chuck Wendig · 2019

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Under the volcano

Malcolm Lowry · 1947

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Classics Literary Atmospheric Dark Melancholic Hallucinatory

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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · 1986

Its own thing

With fire in it

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