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A hyper-stylized, neon-soaked snapshot of 90s youth culture, where hair products and brand names mask a deep yearning for connection. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Shampoo planet.
- neon-lit
- synthetic
- glossy
- understatedly melancholic
- 01
Generation X
Douglas Coupland · 1991
A sun-baked, hyper-articulate retreat into the desert to escape the crushing weight of consumerism and corporate ladders.
- 02
All families are psychotic
Douglas Coupland · 2001
A sun-drenched, chaotic plunge into the hilarious and disastrous depths of family dysfunction, anchored by an unexpected tenderness.
- 03
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cory Doctorow
A surreal, tech-infused urban fantasy where the ghosts of a deeply weird childhood collide with the gritty reality of building a utopian future.
- 04
Nod
Adrian Barnes
A hallucinatory descent into a waking nightmare where the ultimate luxury is a single night of sleep.
- 05
Walkaway
Cory Doctorow
A fiercely optimistic, idea-dense joyride through a post-scarcity apocalypse where building a better world means fighting the billionaires who want to live forever.
- 06
The flying Troutmans
Miriam Toews · 2008
An intimate and emotionally heavy exploration of familial duty and the sudden, urgent pull of a family in crisis.
- 07
Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling · 2002
A globe-trotting, idea-dense plunge into the dark, data-pirated underbelly of a seemingly utopian corporate future.
- 08
The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace · 1987
A dizzying, hilarious plunge into a world where language dictates reality and everyone is talking but no one is communicating.
- 09
Cows
Matthew Stokoe
A relentless, hallucinatory descent into the absolute extremes of urban decay, bodily abjection, and familial trauma.
- 10
The rebel angels
Robertson Davies
A tense and atmospheric exploration of what happens when quiet scholarship collides with love, theft, and murder.
- 11
For Today I Am A Boy
Kim Fu
A poignant, deeply internal exploration of a child navigating the heavy expectations of family and the quiet, persistent ache of their own true identity.
- 12
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.
