Hi, I searched the subreddit and found many threads about this magnificent book, but none that described what I liked about it; ie., the dreamlike, almost psychedelic quality about it.
I’ve never read a book quite like it and I am absolutely entranced still. Anyone have suggestions for books of a similar vibe? Doesn’t have to have anything in common with Piranesi plot wise, but more that enchanting, dreamy vibe with beautiful prose.
(Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell is definitely on my to read list, of course!)
by philboswaggins
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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Borges’ Ficciones
In the Forests of Serre, Patricia McKillip
Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo and Invisible cities are both beautiful and dreamlike. They aren’t a single narrative, more a collection of beautiful ideas and stories. I haven’t read If on a winters night a traveler but I think that one is as well. I think Ishoguro’s The Buried Giant and Kiara and the Sun are both dreamlike and beautiful. Kiara and the Sun especially had a feeling of a very open and loving, but very limited in her specific worldview, narrator.
Station Eleven, Peace Like a River or The Secret History
You absolutely need to try {{The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern}}
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake