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

  • 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

  • The Charterhouse of Padma by Padma Viswanathan

— November 14, 2024


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