Handpicked recommendations to other books that have a similar writing style or theme to The Society of Others

A biting satire of a particular despot and a deeply humane allegory of the fragility of goodness and the contagion of unchecked power.

An immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand—or do we?—through one woman's ever-unfurling imagination and infatuations.

Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small d, became human and were to fall in love?

From acclaimed Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom comes a haunting tale of angels, art, and modern love.

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more.

A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings – for love, art, power, and God – set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order; by the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Seventy-two-year-old Winnie, homeless and abandoned time and again by those she’s trusted, is catapulted out of her exile when a young girl robs her. Winnie embarks on a journey to find the thief, and what begins as a search for stolen belongings becomes the rediscovery of a stolen life.

"This is a grand comic opera starring a meditative cockroach scuttling through the corridors of power at the fulcrum of the 20th century. An impressive debut, notable for a generous sense of fun."

Written with the austere clarity that has made Coetzee the winner of two Booker Prizes and the Nobel Prize, Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes the plight of a country caught in the chaotic aftermath of centuries of racial oppression.

This mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.