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Books that directly or indirectly inspired the Ice Pick Lodge games, Pathologic and Pathologic 2. Also, books that contain similar elements.
This list originally appeared on the r/games subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/commen...
I have added some recommendations of my own, too.
This list originally appeared on the r/games subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/commen...
I have added some recommendations of my own, too.
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The Gray House
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4.26 avg rating — 9,512 ratings
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 309,592 ratings
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The Foundation Pit
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3.78 avg rating — 6,352 ratings
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House of Leaves
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Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 197,145 ratings
score: 195,
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Satan in Goray
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3.88 avg rating — 1,784 ratings
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The Melancholy of Resistance
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The Street of Crocodiles
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The Master and Margarita
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A Country Doctor's Notebook
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4.29 avg rating — 24,161 ratings
score: 98,
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Blindness
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4.18 avg rating — 333,177 ratings
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Hard to Be a God
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4.12 avg rating — 18,168 ratings
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Demons
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4.30 avg rating — 61,640 ratings
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The Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 74,305 ratings
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Ficciones
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4.40 avg rating — 77,908 ratings
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Chevengur
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4.19 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 388,108 ratings
score: 93,
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Walpurgisnacht
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3.71 avg rating — 775 ratings
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Faust
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3.89 avg rating — 49,785 ratings
score: 92,
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The Ritual
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3.56 avg rating — 33,256 ratings
score: 91,
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Borne (Borne, #1)
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Jeff Vandermeer (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 40,897 ratings
score: 90,
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2666
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4.22 avg rating — 48,018 ratings
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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3.83 avg rating — 45,714 ratings
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The Doomed City
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4.18 avg rating — 6,132 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,058,267 ratings
score: 86,
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Last Call (Fault Lines, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 6,624 ratings
score: 85,
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The Book of the New Sun
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4.23 avg rating — 4,641 ratings
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Dhalgren
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3.78 avg rating — 12,208 ratings
score: 83,
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The Crying of Lot 49
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3.69 avg rating — 96,035 ratings
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Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
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4.10 avg rating — 14,874 ratings
score: 81,
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We
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3.88 avg rating — 110,871 ratings
score: 80,
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list created January 6th, 2020
by Allie Morgan (votes) .
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