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  • Cover of Concrete Island
    Concrete IslandNovel

    J. G. Ballard · standalone novel · 1974

    About survival, set in our world and europe.

    “Architect Robert Maitland crashes his car onto a stretch of wasteland trapped between three converging motorways -- visible from thousands of cars, reachable by none of them.”

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    David Markson · standalone novel · 1988

    Challenging in tone, about last of their kind and madness, set in our world.

    “A highly stylized work in the tradition of Samuel Beckett, the novel is mainly a series of statements made in the first person.”

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  • Cover of The Gum Thief
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    Douglas Coupland · standalone novel · 2007

    Set in north america and big city.

    “The Gum Thief is Canadian author Douglas Coupland's twelfth novel.”

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  • Cover of Observatory Mansions
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    Edward Carey · standalone novel · 2000

    About grief and loss, set in british isles and big city.

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    Susanna Clarke · standalone novel · 2020

    Fantasy, mysterious in tone, about amnesia, set in otherworld.

    “A man lives in a huge isolated labyrinthine building partially submerged in an ocean, together with another man and 13 skeletons, which is the only world he recalls.”

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    Scarlett Thomas · standalone novel · 2010

    About books and reading, set in british isles.

    “If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever.”

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