Experimental books that lose you on purpose

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You spend more time rotating the book than reading it. Pages that fold back on themselves, footnotes that bite, and a void that grows as you go.

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The 8 books on this stack

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  • Marisha Pessl 2013

    Why it's on the stack

    It won't tell you everything at once

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    On a damp October night, the body of young, beautiful Ashley Cordova is found in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan.

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  • Steven Hall 2008 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    You'll keep turning it over for days · told in letters, diaries or messages

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is.

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  • Mariana Enríquez 2019

    Why it's on the stack

    It stirs you up inside · one family, generation after generation

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    "A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved.

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  • Juan Rulfo 1955

    Why it's on the stack

    It's hiding a secret · it leaves you thinking

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author.

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  • Flann O ́Brien 2014

    Why it's on the stack

    Nothing is quite what it seems · odd and endearing

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence.

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  • Vladimir Nabokov 1945

    Why it's on the stack

    It's hiding a secret · a cozy mystery, no gore

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.

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  • J.J. Abrams 2013

    Why it's on the stack

    You'll keep turning it over for days · love in the middle of danger

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author.

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  • Mark Z. Danielewski 1998

    Why it's on the stack

    The truth comes out bit by bit · a haunted house

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    Get ready to (re)discover the terrifying, thrilling, and mind-expanding immersive classic horror that redefines the boundaries of a novel .

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