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Books Like Perfume

by Patrick Suskind · about this book

Loved Perfume by Patrick Suskind? If its literary fiction, dark and serial killer hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Titus Groan, The Gunslinger and Interview with the Vampire. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Perfume: Literary Fiction · Dark · Serial Killer · Omniscient Narrator · Atmospheric

1. 

   Titus Groan

   Mervyn Peake

   Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Neglect · Lyrical Prose · Eerie

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   The Gunslinger

   Stephen King

   Bleak · Haunting · Omniscient Narrator · Atmospheric · Eerie

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   Interview with the Vampire

   Anne Rice

   Paris · Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Atmospheric · Character-Driven

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   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë

   Literary Fiction · Haunting · Bleak · Villain Protagonist · Atmospheric

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5. 

   Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

   V E Schwab

   Villain Protagonist · Lyrical Prose · Haunting · Historical Fiction · Character-Driven

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6. 

   The God of Endings

   Jacqueline Holland

   Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Historical Fiction · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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7. 

   The Hounding

   Xenobe Purvis

   Literary Fiction · Haunting · Eerie · Lyrical Prose · Atmospheric

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8. 

   Lolita

   Vladimir Nabokov

   Villain Protagonist · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Lyrical Prose

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9. 

   Ordinary Monsters

   J.M. Miro

   Orphans · Eerie · Atmospheric · Historical Fiction · Dark

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10. 

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

    Neglect · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Atmospheric · Historical Fiction

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11. 

    Night Watch

    Jayne Anne Phillips

    Haunting · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Atmospheric · Character-Driven

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12. 

    In the Woods

    Tana French

    Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Atmospheric · Bleak · Character-Driven

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13. 

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Paris · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Atmospheric

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14. 

    Curious Toys

    Elizabeth Hand

    Serial Killer · Atmospheric · Eerie · Historical Fiction · Character-Driven

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15. 

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    Stephen Graham Jones

    Haunting · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Dark

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16. 

    The Alienist

    Caleb Carr

    Serial Killer · Atmospheric · Dark · Historical Fiction · Violent

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17. 

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    Literary Fiction · Haunting · Atmospheric · Omniscient Narrator · Bleak

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18. 

    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Literary Fiction · Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Character-Driven · Atmospheric

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19. 

    Don't Let the Forest In

    C.G. Drews

    Neglect · Lyrical Prose · Eerie · Atmospheric · Dark

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20. 

    A Far Better Thing

    H.G. Parry

    Paris · Lyrical Prose · Historical Fiction · Character-Driven · Atmospheric

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