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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

351 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction historical literary challenging dark tense slow-paced
1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

384 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

American Gods

American Gods #1

Neil Gaiman

588 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

ねじまき鳥クロニクル / The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle #1-3

Haruki Murakami

26 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction contemporary literary magical realism dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Michael Lewis

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction health science informative medium-paced
The Lost World by Michael Crichton

The Lost World

Jurassic Park #2

Michael Crichton

448 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction science fiction thriller adventurous tense medium-paced
Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis

Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
nonfiction psychology challenging emotional informative slow-paced
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Catch-22 #1

Joseph Heller

453 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction classics historical literary dark funny slow-paced
Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Ubik

Philip K. Dick

227 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

5.0brendamn's review
fiction classics science fiction adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem

Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu

754 pages • first pub 2006 (editions) user-added

5.0brendamn's review
fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced