Twenty Interesting Books About Doubles, Doppelgängers, Decoys, or Impersonators
(by request, and alphabetically by author)
The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
The Crab Nebula by Éric Chevillard
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Notebook by Ágota Kristóf
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Familiar by J. Robert Lennon
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Need by Helen Phillips
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses
The Double by José Saramago
— December 14, 2020