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A razor-sharp, alcohol-fueled chronicle of a man's spectacular, self-inflicted ruin over a single holiday weekend. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Appointment in Samarra.
- claustrophobic
- fatalistic
- alcohol-soaked
- tense
- 01
Revolutionary road
Richard Yates
A beautiful, remorseless portrait of a marriage suffocating under the opulent desolation of 1950s suburban life.
- 02
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, slow-motion trainwreck of a marriage drowning in champagne and squandered potential.
- 03
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
A glittering, razor-sharp tragedy about a woman trapped by the very society she was bred to conquer.
- 04
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, champagne-soaked tragedy about the hollow pursuit of an impossible past.
- 05
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
A delightfully vicious and breezy romp through the absurdities of 1920s British high society and institutional incompetence.
- 06
The death of the heart
Elizabeth Bowen
A razor-sharp, quietly devastating portrait of adolescent innocence colliding with the icy cynicism of polite society.
- 07
Another Country
James Baldwin · 1963
A smoky, devastating symphony of a novel that strips bare the illusions of love, race, and bohemian life in 1960s New York.
- 08
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West · 1962
A feverish, pitch-black plunge into the grotesque underbelly of American dreams and mass-produced fantasies.
- 09
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
A feverish, hallucinatory descent into the mind of a man drinking himself to death under the shadow of looming mountains and impending war.
- 10
A Death in the Family
James Agee
A deeply poetic, sensory immersion into the warmth of a Southern childhood and the shattering, quiet aftermath of sudden loss.
- 11
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
A glittering, razor-sharp comedy of manners that slowly dissolves into a surreal and devastating nightmare.
- 12
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
A sprawling, tragicomic dissection of a deeply dysfunctional American family colliding over one final, fraught holiday.
