I’m looking for stories which make you feel like you’ve barely scratched the surface after reading them. Whether the ending is ambiguous enough to draw you right back to the beginning to search for clues, or it leaves enough up to interpretation that you can’t quite grasp the “reality” of the story, or it has so many layers of magic/symbolism that it’s impossible to tell what’s really happening on first pass. The weirder the better. Here’s some media that I keep coming back to for these reasons:
* *Carmilla*
* *Signalis*
* *The Slow Regard of Silent Things*
* *This is How You Lose the Time War*
* *Arrival*
So what books had you feeling like you needed to reread them? I prefer science fiction and fantasy, but I’m open to suggestions from other genres too. Bonus points if they have sad, lonely, dreamlike, and/or bittersweet elements!
by finding_day
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Anxious People by Frederick Backman. It was well written and there was so much going on in the book so i want to savor it again.
The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir is exactly this. There’s a crazy amount of foreshadowing, symbolism, and world-building you pick up on re-reading. Book one is called Gideon the Ninth.