Books like “Tender Is the Flesh”

What to read after “Tender Is the Flesh” by Agustina Bazterrica: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror”
- Body Horror
Four women cross into Area X, a coastal region sealed off for decades, to survey it as the twelfth expedition. The biologist records the abandoned bunker, the writing on its walls and the animals that seem almost aware. She also knows her husband went in before her and came back changed.
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
- Satire
- Dystopia
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a future where reading is a crime and screens fill every quiet moment. After a young neighbour asks him whether he is happy, curiosity makes him hide a book of his own, and he begins to question everything his job stands for.
3
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
- Satire
- Dystopia
In the glass city of OneState, citizens live by a strict timetable and are known only by numbers. When the mathematician D-503 begins to keep a private journal, a woman named I-330 draws him into a movement that wants to tear down the walls of the ordered world.
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Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi · 2013
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Satire”
In occupied Baghdad a junk dealer stitches a corpse together from the body parts of the dead, and a wandering soul animates it. The creature walks the streets demanding justice for the people it was made from, and soon needs fresh parts to keep going. A bleak, darkly funny story of war, guilt and monstrousness.
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The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi · 2009
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Morally Grey Character
In a flooded, calorie-poor Bangkok kept alive by genetic engineering, an American trader hunts for lost seed banks while a manufactured woman bred as a servant tries to survive. Their paths cross with corporate enforcers and a city about to boil over.
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The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror”
- Body Horror
Five boys and their scoutmaster camp on a remote island for a weekend. A starving stranger arrives by boat, carrying a parasite that turns the body against itself. As the infection spreads, the small group's most immediate danger becomes one of the boys themselves.
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Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
- Satire
- Dystopia
The animals of Manor Farm drive out their human master and run the farm themselves, promising equality for all. The pigs slowly take control, and their revolution turns into a new kind of tyranny, showing how power can corrupt those who hold it.
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
- Satire
- Dystopia
Alex, a teenager who loves violence and classical music, leads his gang through nights of brutal crime. When the state captures him, it offers to cure his impulses with an experimental treatment, making him the subject of a system that manufactures both good and evil.
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Wool
Hugh Howey · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
In a future where the air outside is deadly, people live in a buried silo and are told that anyone who asks to go outside will be sent there to die. When a sheriff starts asking questions about the world beyond the walls, the silo's careful order begins to crack.
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What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror”
- Body Horror
Alex Easton travels to the Ushers' decaying manor to see a childhood friend who is dying. Madeline's body is changing in ways the doctors cannot explain, down to the hairs on her arms, the local hares behave strangely, and the tarn beside the house seems to be watching.
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
- Satire
- Dystopia
In a future where citizens are engineered for contentment and kept calm with a drug called soma, Bernard Marx and the Savage John discover the cost of a stable, pleasure-driven society. John's arrival from a reservation exposes the emptiness behind the World State's comfort.
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The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror”
- Body Horror
Years ago four Blackfeet men shot an elk on land they had no right to hunt. Now something is stalking them across the reservation, taking them one by one, in a story about grief, guilt and the debts that follow a person home.