Books like Chimera by Sebastiano Vassalli

Interview With the Vampire: An Immortal Vampire Tells His Life Story

A Black man's journey through racism, identity and activism in 1940s Harlem, culminating in a revelatory escape from the streets to self-knowledge.

Set during the French Indochina War, the novel follows British journalist Thomas Fowler, his mistress Phuong, and American idealist Pyle, whose ambitions and tragic fate reshape their lives amid political turmoil.

Italo Calvino’s postmodern masterpiece presents ten unfinished novels, each interrupted in suspense, weaving a labyrinthine exploration of reading, writing, and the power of imagination.

Merrick: The Witch's Tale

A young man's family falls apart after a violent attack on his mother, forcing them into a world of turmoil and uncertainty.

Anne Rice's epic vampire story of redemption and love, featuring unforgettable characters and a haunting world of horror and fantasy.

A Chilean woman embarks on a quest to find her lover in 1840s California's goldfields, facing numerous challenges and adventures along the way.

Interview with the Vampire; The Queen of the Damned; Vampire Lestat: A series of vampire tales featuring Anne Rice's iconic vampire protagonist Lestat, set in 19th-century Italy and America, with an interview with the vampire character.

Seventeen‑year‑old Lara heads to a Tuscan villa with her father, but becomes entangled with the adventurous Willoughby children—especially the flirtatious Kip—whose summer thrills spark first love and life‑altering revelations.

Set in the 1860s, The Leopard is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.

A work in progress at the time of Pasolini's murder, Petrolio is made up of a series of notes - some extended and polished narrative passages, others cryptic messages from the author to himself that consist of no more than a few words. At the novel's center is Carlo, an oil executive who undergoes a profound personality split: Carlo 1 is a super-Machiavellian power monger; Carlo 2 lives only to satisfy his perverse and insatiable sexual desires. Carlo also experiences a sexual metamorphosis in which he becomes, at will, female. The story of Carlo is interspersed with re-visions of myth - Oedipus, Medea, the Argonauts - and of Dante's hell. The teller of this story is also dual in nature. There is the author - the external shaper of the novel - who interrupts the text to comment on its mechanics and its meaning. And there is the narrator, whose cynical and seductive perspective comes from within Petrolio's fictional world. Fragmentary, deliberately self-referential, meta-literary, schizoid, a devotional exploration of the male libido, an ode to the lust for power and the power of lust and, above all, a wrenching attempt to define the intellectual and his responsibilities, Petrolio is a postmodern masterpiece.