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  • Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
    Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with DeathNovel

    Kurt Vonnegut & Jr. · standalone novel · 1969

    Literary & general, about war, set in mid 20th century.

    “Vonnegut opens in his own voice, describing the twenty years it took him to face writing about surviving the firebombing of Dresden as a POW.”

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  • Cover of The Last Man
    The Last ManNovel

    Mary Shelley · standalone novel · 1826

    Post-apocalyptic, about last of their kind and plague and pandemic, set in far future.

    “The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity.”

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  • Cover of The Werewolf of Paris
    The Werewolf of ParisNovel

    Guy Endore · standalone novel · 1933

    Tense in tone, about werewolves and war.

    “Some literature experts have compared this book with Dracula by Bram Stoker and they have identified it as the Dracula of werewolf fiction.”

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  • Cover of Julia
    JuliaNovel

    Peter Straub · standalone novel · 1975

    Ghost stories, eerie in tone, about family secrets, set in british isles.

    “Julia was later adapted into the 1977 film Full Circle, starring Mia Farrow.”

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  • Cover of The Invisible Man
    The Invisible ManSeries

    series · 6 books · 1897

    Set in british isles.

    “The Invisible Man is H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel about Griffin, a scientist who works out how to make living tissue invisible and tests the process on himself, only to discover he has no way to reverse it.”

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  • Cover of The Dedalus Book of Decadence
    The Dedalus Book of DecadenceSeries

    series · 2 books · 1990

    completed

    Literary & general.

    Start with The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Moral Ruins) →

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