5 Top horror books like Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero

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Stranger to the Moon

By: Evelio Rosero

3.70

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

The writer Evelio Rosero has never been one to shy away from the darker aspects of Colombia’s histo…

If you liked the horror plot in Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Wittgenstein's Mistress

By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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2. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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3. Last Words from Montmartre

By: Qiu Miaojin , Ari Larissa Heinrich

2.77

Format: 130 pages,

When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she… read more

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  • fiction

4. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

By: Vítězslav Nezval , David Short , Kamil Lhoták

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Wee… read more

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5. Slow Man

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident result… read more

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6. The Meursault Investigation

By: John Cullen , Kamel Daoud

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic … read more

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7. Los abismos

By: Pilar Quintana

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Una niña contempla con una agudeza y una sensibilidad extraordinaria el conflictivo matrimonio de s… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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8. The Houseguest and Other Stories

By: Amparo Dávila

3.65

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "

-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories

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9. Star

By: Yukio Mishima

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screamin… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
"Just as evil never dies, neither does the sentimental."

-Yukio Mishima, Star

"The very thing that makes a star spectacular is the same thing that strikes him from the world at large and makes him an outsider."

-Yukio Mishima, Star

"A hidden poetry that will be lost if any mediocrity is shed. Genius is a casualty. The poetry must never be conspicuous — its scent is only detectable when subtle."

-Yukio Mishima, Star

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10. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Factory

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.34

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more

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  • literature
  • novella
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

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12. They: A Sequence of Unease

By: Kay Dick

3.38

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more

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  • novella
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

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13. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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14. Here Be Icebergs

By: Katya Adaui

3.32

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

"La exigencia de hacer algo para ser alguien. Estamos hartos de los gritos. No hay silencio. Hartos… read more

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  • novella
  • latin american
  • fiction
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15. Scattered All Over the Earth

By: Yōko Tawada

3.27

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now re… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • novels
"People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are."

-Yōko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth

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16. The Divorce

By: César Aira

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

With an enthusiastic foreword by Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delighful book of chance meetings, b… read more

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  • literature
  • novella
  • latin american
  • fiction
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17. An Inventory of Losses

By: Judith Schalansky

3.36

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more

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  • literature
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18. Lost Ark Dreaming

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.69

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high… read more

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  • novella
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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19. Río Muerto

By: Ricardo Silva Romero

4.33

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Río Muerto es una de las novelas más personales de su autor, pues en ella retrata de manera vertigi… read more

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20. Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea

By: Bill François

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

If we were able to listen under water, what would we hear? What would we learn? How would it change… read more

Similar categories in Bill François's Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea book and Evelio Rosero's Stranger to the Moon

"When school ends, everyone must relearn in their own way"

-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea

"By being aware of our place and role in the ecosystem, we preserve it."

-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea

"Don't try to exchange words, only to share that which transcends words."

-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea

"A human being is nothing more than a very large community, on every level."

-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea

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21. Stranger to the Moon

By: Evelio Rosero

3.70

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

The writer Evelio Rosero has never been one to shy away from the darker aspects of Colombia’s histo… read more

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  • literature
  • novella
  • latin american
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • surreal
  • fantasy

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung

3.65

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They: A Sequence of Unease

Kay Dick

3.38

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Scattered All Over the Earth

Yōko Tawada

3.27

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Lost Ark Dreaming

Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.69

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La perra

Pilar Quintana

3.85

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Delirio

Laura Restrepo

4.20

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Gabriel García Márquez

3.65

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Gustavo Rodríguez

4.14

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