Maybe scary, maybe existential, maybe funny. What are your favorite books that use a doppelgänger as a plot device? by personalh2omelon Related: Which one of these 3 books should I choose? A book where character just suffers for no reason or greater good and there is no happy ending or whatever. The entire book is this character being tormented Books that have improved yourself or taught you something Looking for an engaging book well-rated book that can top the last five books i’ve read (Preferrably smutty) Fantasy Romance, but with a male protagonist
EmbraJeff on October 2, 2023 12:40 am If this doesn’t fit the bill, then nothing will… https://naomiklein.org/doppelganger/
SKatieRo on October 2, 2023 1:19 am A Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare. Brat Farrar by…. I can’t remember!
NotDaveBut on October 2, 2023 1:22 am One of the 2 novellas in HALF MOON STREET by Paul Theroux is a doppelganger story.
littleAggieG on October 2, 2023 2:29 am Not doppelgängers but estranged identical twins. *The Vanishing Half* by Brit Bennett.
bleie77 on October 2, 2023 4:47 am De donkere kamer van Damokles, by Willem F. Hermans. Translated into English as The dark room of Damocles.
cheezit8926a on October 2, 2023 6:44 am Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (Kind of… clones are technically doppelgangers yeah?)
DocWatson42 on October 2, 2023 8:25 am (Spoilers at the links:) [The Dresden Files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dresden_Files) feature [naagloshii](https://dresdenfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Naagloshii) ([skin-walkers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker)) as shapeshifters, often as doppelgängers.
Relative-Thought-105 on October 2, 2023 1:50 pm The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg. Classic Scottish novel, and creepy as fuck
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The Double by Jose Saramago
If this doesn’t fit the bill, then nothing will…
https://naomiklein.org/doppelganger/
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier
A Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare.
Brat Farrar by…. I can’t remember!
One of the 2 novellas in HALF MOON STREET by Paul Theroux is a doppelganger story.
Hapgood by Tom Stoppard
Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix!
Not doppelgängers but estranged identical twins. *The Vanishing Half* by Brit Bennett.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Likeness by Tana French
Anansi boys by Neil Gaiman
De donkere kamer van Damokles, by Willem F. Hermans. Translated into English as The dark room of Damocles.
The Nose by Gogol
The Double by Dostoyevsky
The Outsider by Stephen King.
Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (Kind of… clones are technically doppelgangers yeah?)
(Spoilers at the links:) [The Dresden Files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dresden_Files) feature [naagloshii](https://dresdenfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Naagloshii) ([skin-walkers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker)) as shapeshifters, often as doppelgängers.
Doppelgänger – Naomi Klein (Non fiction)
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
AntKind by Charlie Kauffman
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.
Classic Scottish novel, and creepy as fuck
Stranger with My Face by Lois Duncan YA novel
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey