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Books like Remainder
A chilling, deadpan descent into the obsessive pursuit of perfect, manufactured authenticity. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Remainder.
- uncanny
- claustrophobic
- surreal
- sterile
- 01
Ghostwritten
David Mitchell · 2000
A dizzying, genre-hopping puzzle box that spans the globe to reveal the invisible threads connecting humanity.
- 02
Permutation City
Greg Egan
A dizzying plunge into the deep end of hard science fiction that will leave you questioning the fundamental nature of your own consciousness.
- 03
Concrete island
J. G. Ballard · 1994
A feverish, claustrophobic descent into the feral underbelly of modern urban infrastructure.
- 04
Oracle Night
Paul Auster · 2003
A hypnotic descent into a literary labyrinth where the act of writing begins to rewrite reality itself.
- 05
The Bridge
Iain Banks
A surreal, architectural descent into the fragmented subconscious of a man suspended between life and death.
- 06
Zero History
William Gibson
A sleek, hyper-observant dive into the hidden currents of late capitalism, where fashion and military intelligence collide.
- 07
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
A sleek, jet-lagged dive into the hyper-connected paranoia of the early internet and the semiotics of global cool.
- 08
If nobody speaks of remarkable things
Jon McGregor
A quiet, observant portrait of ordinary urban life that builds toward a single, shattering moment of collective trauma.
- 09
Money
Martin Amis · 1984
A manic, filthy, and hilariously grotesque joyride through the neon-lit excesses of the 1980s.
- 10
The leftovers
Tom Perrotta
A haunting, quietly devastating portrait of ordinary people trying to buy groceries and fall in love after the world has inexplicably broken.
- 11
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
A dazzling, kaleidoscopic puzzle box of a narrative that explores the aching human desire for connection in an age of hyper-surveillance.
- 12
The Road Home
Rose Tremain
A deeply empathetic and bittersweet exploration of displacement, grief, and the quiet resilience required to build a new life far from home.
