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A darkly funny, deeply humane tapestry of interconnected lives surviving the absurdities and tragedies of a fractured empire. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The tsar of love and techno.
- melancholic
- haunting
- bittersweet
- bleak yet tender
- 01
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.
- 02
This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz
A raw, rhythmic autopsy of heartbreak and self-sabotage told by a narrator who can't stop breaking his own heart.
- 03
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.
- 04
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra
A devastatingly beautiful tapestry of human endurance that finds startling moments of grace and dark humor amid the ruins of war.
- 05
Bad behavior
Mary Gaitskill · 1988
A raw, disenchanted plunge into the longing and angst of an urban fringe generation desperate for connection.
- 06
Super sad true love story
Gary Shteyngart
A hilariously bleak and tenderly tragic portrait of a doomed romance set against the backdrop of a collapsing, hyper-capitalist America.
- 07
Wireless
Charles Stross · 2009
A dizzying, high-velocity plunge into alternate histories, post-human futures, and bureaucratic cosmic horror.
- 08
The Language of Thorns
Leigh Bardugo
A beautifully dark and subversive collection of fairy tales that lures you into the woods and teaches you how to bite back.
- 09
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.
- 10
Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr
A luminous and deeply empathetic exploration of how the fragments of our pasts shape the fragile beauty of our present.
- 11
Difficult Women
Roxane Gay
A raw, unflinching exploration that lays bare the painful and defiant realities of navigating the world in a woman's body.
- 12
A People's Future of the United States
Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah and others
A defiant, electrifying collection of speculative visions that dares to imagine marginalized communities surviving, resisting, and thriving in the face of systemic collapse.
