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Books like Blonde
A feverish, hallucinatory descent into the crushing machinery of American fame and the fractured soul of its greatest icon. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Blonde.
- haunting
- claustrophobic
- melancholic
- surreal
- dread-soaked
- 01
Zombie
Joyce Carol Oates
A claustrophobic, deeply unsettling descent into the fragmented diary of a psychopath.
- 02
My story
Marilyn Monroe · 1974
An intimate, haunting glimpse behind the most famous smile in the world, revealing a sharp mind and a deeply bruised heart.
- 03
You must remember this
Joyce Carol Oates
An intense, probing exploration of a working-class family tearing through the stifling conformity of the 1950s to pursue forbidden passions.
- 04
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
A masterful, Russian-doll narrative of secrets, betrayal, and the stories we tell to survive our own histories.
- 05
Psycho
Robert Bloch
A claustrophobic descent into a fractured mind where the deepest horrors hide behind a polite smile.
- 06
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion
A sun-bleached, razor-sharp descent into the hollow core of 1960s Hollywood and the fractured psyche of a woman with nothing left to lose.
- 07
Valley of the dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 1966
A glittering, pill-popping descent into the glamorous and ruthless underbelly of mid-century show business.
- 08
Gentlemen prefer blondes
Anita Loos · 1925
A sparkling, razor-sharp diary of a faux-naive flapper who knows exactly how to manipulate the men who think they are manipulating her.
- 09
The Black Dahlia
James Ellroy
A feverish, pitch-black descent into mid-century Los Angeles where obsession rots the soul and justice is just another hustle.
- 10
Frida
Hayden Herrera
An immersive, deeply empathetic portrait of a life lived at the bleeding edge of physical pain and artistic brilliance.
- 11
In the Country of Last Things
Paul Auster · 1992
A haunting, epistolary descent into a crumbling metropolis where memory and meaning must be scavenged from the ruins.
- 12
White oleander
Fitch, Janet
A lush, bruising exploration of a young woman forging her own identity in the shadow of a dangerously magnetic mother.
