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Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with DeathNovel
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1969
Science fiction and time travel, about war.
“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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Lord of the FliesNovel
William Goldingstandalone novel1954
Tense in tone, about survival and coming of age, set in islands.
“The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery.”
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Mother NightNovel
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1962
Reflective in tone, about identity and war, set in europe.
“Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American playwright who grew up in Germany, writes his memoirs from an Israeli prison cell awaiting trial for war crimes.”
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We Have Always Lived in the CastleNovel
Shirley Jacksonstandalone novel1962
Gothic, eerie in tone, about family secrets.
“A young woman lives with her older sister and sickly uncle in their old family house, after a mysterious tragedy turns the townsfolk against them.”
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The Midwich CuckoosNovel
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1957
Science fiction, about aliens and parenthood, set in small town.
Naked LunchNovel
William S. Burroughsstandalone novel1959
Satire, challenging in tone, about addiction.