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What to read after Alamut by Vladimir Bartol: 24 titles sharing themes of Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, and Historical, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Elizabeth Costello Fiction

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

Soul Mountain — Xingjian Gao

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Gold Bug Variations — Richard Powers

The Gold Bug Variations

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition) — Alessandro Baricco

Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Alessandro Baricco

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

W, Or, The Memory of Childhood — Georges Perec

W, Or, The Memory of Childhood

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Principle — Jérôme Ferrari

Jérôme Ferrari

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Schopenhauer Cure A Novel — Irvin Yalom

The Schopenhauer Cure A Novel

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Cleft A Novel — Doris Lessing

The Cleft A Novel

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

Angels & Insects Two Novellas — A. S. Byatt

Angels & Insects Two Novellas

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

Let the Drum Speak A Novel of Ancient America — Linda Lay Shuler

Let the Drum Speak A Novel of Ancient America

Linda Lay Shuler

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

China Room — Sunjeev Sahota

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

How to be Both — Ali Smith

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

Next Person You Meet in Heaven The Sequel to the Five People You Meet in Heaven — Mitch Albom

Next Person You Meet in Heaven The Sequel to the Five People You Meet in Heaven

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Loser A Novel — Thomas Bernhard

The Loser A Novel

Thomas Bernhard

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

To the Wedding — John Berger

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Journeys of Socrates — Dan Millman

The Journeys of Socrates

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

Orlando — Virginia Woolf

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Overstory A Novel — Richard Powers

The Overstory A Novel

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The School of Night — Karl Ove Knausgaard

The School of Night

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

Voodoo Dreams A Novel of Marie Laveau — Jewell P. Rhodes

Voodoo Dreams A Novel of Marie Laveau

Jewell P. Rhodes

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Empusium A Health Resort Horror Story — Olga Tokarczuk

The Empusium A Health Resort Horror Story

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The Journey of Ibn Fattouma — Naguib Mahfouz

The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August — Claire North

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Themes: Visionary & Metaphysical • Literary • Historical

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