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Books like Oblivion
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the hyper-articulate and deeply lonely labyrinths of the modern human mind. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Oblivion.
- claustrophobic
- anxiety-inducing
- surreal
- absurd
- 01
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
- 02
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
David Foster Wallace · 1997
A hyper-articulate, deeply neurotic plunge into the surreal and exhausting landscape of American leisure.
- 03
Pastoralia
George Saunders · 2000
A hilarious, heartbreaking funhouse mirror reflecting the soul-crushing absurdities of modern work and life.
- 04
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
A tender, delightfully weird exploration of lonely people fumbling toward connection in the most unexpected ways.
- 05
Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
A darkly playful plunge into a world where suburban anxieties and teenage sleepovers collide with ghosts, superheroes, and the uncanny.
- 06
Reasons to live
Amy Hempel · 1985
A masterclass in saying everything by saying almost nothing, wrapping profound grief in sharp, brittle wit.
- 07
Stories
Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
A genre-defying collection of imaginative tales that uses flashes of magic to reveal the unsettling truths hidden in the everyday.
- 08
Song for the Unraveling of the World
Brian Evenson
A masterclass in the uncanny that quietly and methodically dismantles your grip on reality.
- 09
Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock
A visceral, unapologetic descent into the dirt and blood of a forgotten American town, laced with pitch-black humor.
- 10
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
A bittersweet and imaginative collection of stories exploring the messy, imperfect nature of human connection.
- 11
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 12
Bradbury Stories
Ray Bradbury
A kaleidoscopic journey through twilight midwestern towns and distant Martian landscapes, fueled by poetic wonder and creeping dread.
