Books like Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox reads as bleak, tense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Los peligros de fumar en la cama
Mariana Enríquez · 2009
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Baby Teeth
Zoje Stage · 2018
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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Roald Dahl · 1983
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Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis · 1985
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The fifth child
Doris Lessing · 1988
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid · 2016
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Cold Spring Harbor
Richard Yates · 2008
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Psycho
Robert Bloch · 1959
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The Bad Seed
William March · 1954
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Laird Koenig · 1973
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Little Stranger
Leigh Rivers · 2023
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The Friend
Sigrid Nunez · 2018
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