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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Golem
Gustav Meyrink · 288 pages
A masterpiece of surreal fantasy. The protagonist, called Athanasius Pernath is flung from the present, to the past, from one nightmare situation where the characters he meets have no link with anyon else. Underlying all the surface panic is a decades-old tragedy, followed by a present-day one. Kafka and Meyrink were contemporaries in the same city, and both possessed the gift of fantasy. It is no
The Other Side
Alfred Kubin · 271 pages
"Tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconscious."--Back cover.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami · 416 pages
The Bridge
Iain Banks · 287 pages
Orr, the otherwise unnamed protagonist of this Pynchonesque novel, is a successful Scottish engineer who's a bit fed up with life: his work doesn't really interest him anymore; years of doping and boozing have dulled him; his girlfriend has other lovers (he does too, but he would rather she was monogamous). Then one evening he crashes his classic Jaguar into a parked MG. The aftermath is coma and
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall · 428 pages
When Eric Sanderson wakes from a lengthy unconsciousness, he has no memory. A letter from "The First Eric Sanderson" directs him to psychologist Dr. Randle, who tells Eric he is afflicted with a "dissociative condition." Eric learns about his former life -- specifically a glorious romance with girlfriend Clio Aames, who drowned three years earlier -- and is soon on the run from the Ludovician, a "
Bones of the Moon
Jonathan Carroll · 217 pages
X'ed Out
Charles Burns · 56 pages
"Doug is in bad shape. All the drugs in the world won't shut out the images that haunt his fevered dreams-- fetal pigs, razor blades, black cats, open wounds-- and eggs. Let's not forget the eggs" -- p. [4] of cover.
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 272 pages
**From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.** Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is im
Dream Country
Neil Gaiman · 160 pages
Presents four Sandman stories, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which Shakespeare's company, at the instigation of the Lord of Dreams, gives an open-air performance of the play to an audience of fairies.
The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly · 352 pages
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strang
Black Moon
Kenneth Calhoun · 288 pages
Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows. Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world. Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.
Nod
Adrian Barnes · 199 pages
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and theyve all shared the same golden dream.
number9dream
David Mitchell · 400 pages
At age twenty, Eiji goes to Tokyo to search for the wealthy father he's never known. He stumbles upon the hidden power centers of the Japanese underworld and instead of finding his father, finds himself.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 40 pages
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
Patrick Modiano · 155 pages
"[A] single, unexpected phone call to a man living quietly in Paris launches a chain of menacing encounters and events, unlocking a dark secret he had erased from memory" --
Lincoln's Dreams
Connie Willis · 228 pages
"A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."--The Washington Post Book World"A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much tension had been generated, how engrossed I was in the characters, how much I cared about their fates."--The New York Times Book ReviewFor Jeff Johnston, a y
Night Film
Marisha Pessl · 624 pages
Ashley Cordova is dead. Scott McGrath, a veteran investigative journalist wants to know why. The reason why the death of this beautiful, young woman has piqued his interest so much is because of who her father is. He is Stanislas Cordova, the world famous director of strange cult/horror films that hasn't been seen publicly in over thirty years. The last time McGrath got involved with Cordova he lo
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
村上春樹 · 416 pages
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
Dorothy Bryant · 222 pages
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is a 1971 novel by American writer Dorothy Bryant. Blending utopian fantasy with spiritual allegory and science fiction, the book follows a self-centered man’s eye-opening journey to a mystical island society governed by dreams . Originally self-published after mainstream publishers rejected it, the novel later gained a cult following and was picked up by Random
Falling Under
Gwen Hayes · 336 pages
Theia Alderson has always led a sheltered life in the small California town of Serendipity Falls. But when a devastatingly handsome boy appears in the halls of her school, Theia knows she's seen Haden before- not around town, but in her dreams. As the Haden of both the night and the day beckons her closer one moment and pushes her away the next, the only thing Theia knows for sure is that the i