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William Goldingstandalone novel1954

Dark 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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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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Mother NightNovel

Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1962

About identity and war, set in our world and 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 Green MileNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1996

Magical realism, emotional in tone, about grief and loss, set in north america.

“The serial novel was released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work.”
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The Crying of Lot 49Novel

Thomas Pynchonstandalone novel1966

Postmodern, mysterious in tone, set in north america.

“The shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot follows Oedipa Maas, a young Californian woman who begins to embrace a conspiracy theory as she possibly unearths a centuries-old feud between two mail distribution companies.”
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