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Books like Mexican Gothic
The best books like Mexican Gothic are The Turn of the Screw, The Bell Jar, and Beloved. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is about colonialism and extraction, gender and control, eugenics and racial purity. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James · Horror
A young governess is sent to an isolated English country house to care for two children, Miles and Flora, whose guardian — a charming, absent man in London — has made clear he does not want to be bothered.
A kindred horror read.
Read the summary → - The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath · Memoir
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, one month before Plath's death.
A kindred horror read.
Read the summary → - Beloved
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Toni Morrison · Literary fiction
Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house shadowed by the ghost of a baby she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.
A kindred horror read.
Read the summary → - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · Literary fiction
Oscar Wao is an overweight Dominican American nerd from New Jersey who wants nothing more than to find love and write fantasy novels.
A kindred horror read.
Read the summary → - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo · History
Behind the Beautiful Forevers is Katherine Boo's account of three years spent in Annawadi, a Mumbai slum built on reclaimed land next to the international airport.
A kindred horror read.
Read the summary → - Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen · Classics
Two sisters, dispossessed by the legal mechanics of entail after their father's death, move to a smaller house in Devonshire with reduced means and reduced prospects.
Both dig into class and inheritance.
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Books like Mexican Gothic: quick answers
What are the best books like Mexican Gothic?
The best books like Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia are The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, plus 1 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Mexican Gothic, such as colonialism and extraction, gender and control, eugenics and racial purity.
What should I read after Mexican Gothic?
A natural next read after Mexican Gothic is The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. A kindred horror read. Other strong choices are The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz.
What books are similar to Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia?
Mexican Gothic centers on colonialism and extraction, gender and control, eugenics and racial purity. Books with a similar feel include The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
