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  • Cover of: surreal, speculative

    surreal, speculative

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    87 items Last modified February 16, 2024

    Science fiction, fantasy, and otherwise unreal fiction I've read. Also including authors I've read more than one book/story from whose work tends to fall in this category.
    I am choosing titles that tend more towards the "weird" - for example, I'm a big fan of Kazuo Ishiguro, but I think that Never Let Me Go isn't strange enough for this list, despite the sci-fi conceit.
    Another favorite author of mine is Shirley Jackson. Many of her stories have a creepy edge, but so far I'm only including The Sundial and The Haunting of Hill House because they are the novels that lean most towards the supernatural.

  • Cover of: personal narrative

    personal narrative

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    7 items Last modified March 1, 2023
  • Cover of: America, the mercurial

    America, the mercurial

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    51 items Last modified March 1, 2023

    Books I've read that show the varied face of the United States.

  • Cover of: women in fiction

    women in fiction

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    46 items Last modified January 28, 2023

    Differing from traditional portrayals of female characters.

  • Cover of: market literature

    market literature

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    9 items Last modified January 28, 2023

    Books that describe the processes and effects of economic activity.

  • Cover of: California

    California

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    14 items Last modified May 9, 2022
  • Cover of: my to-read list

    my to-read list

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    112 items Last modified July 1, 2021
  • Cover of: Favorite books and authors

    Favorite books and authors

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    39 items Last modified May 17, 2021
  • Cover of: other than sight

    other than sight

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    6 items Last modified February 16, 2020

    Books that I've read that focus on senses other than sight.

  • Cover of: Parallel fiction

    Parallel fiction

    by Diandra Rodriguez
    11 items Last modified January 31, 2020

    This article by Jayashree Arunachalam in The Hindu uses the the term "parallel literature" to refer to stories using the characters and/or settings of previous literary works.

    Short stories in this vein include John Langan's "Technicolor."

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February 16, 2024 Diandra Rodriguez Added Short stories to the list.
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