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Books like Severance
A deadpan, eerily calm apocalypse where the end of the world looks a lot like another day at the office. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Severance.
- eerie
- liminal
- quietly apocalyptic
- isolating
- 01
The leavers
Lisa Ko
A poignant, cross-cultural exploration of identity, loss, and the enduring, complicated ties between a mother and her son.
- 02
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
A pitch-black, narcotic comedy about checking out of a superficial world to find a blank-slate salvation.
- 03
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
A masterclass in creeping dread that strips away the comforts of modern privilege to reveal the terrifying fragility beneath.
- 04
Yellowface
R. F. Kuang
A deliciously toxic, anxiety-inducing spiral into the mind of a desperately ambitious fraud.
- 05
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
A hyper-ironic scroll through the digital void that suddenly shatters into a profound meditation on embodied grief and love.
- 06
School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
A tense, witty, and deeply anxious exploration of the impossible standards of modern motherhood pushed to a dystopian extreme.
- 07
Fake Accounts
Lauren Oyler
A sharp, cynical plunge into the deceptive mirrors of the internet age, where irony and alienation blur the line between truth and performance.
- 08
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
A razor-sharp, formally inventive satire that dismantles the background roles marginalized people are forced to play in their own lives.
- 09
The End of October
Lawrence Wright
A dread-soaked medical thriller that races against time as a deadly virus unravels the modern world.
- 10
Dept of Speculation
Jenny Offill
A glittering, fragmented mosaic of a mind unraveling under the quiet pressures of marriage, motherhood, and thwarted ambition.
- 11
Then we came to the end
Joshua Ferris
A brilliantly deadpan, hive-mind chronicle of the absurdities, anxieties, and unexpected intimacies of modern office life.
- 12
The Silence
Don DeLillo
A prescient, philosophical exploration of humanity stripped of its digital connections during a sudden catastrophe.
