You think you had a rough day, try these circadian novels (books that take place during 24 hours):
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Ulysses by James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Run by Ann Patchett
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Embers by Sandor Marai
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Vox by Nicholson Baker
Vertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deidre Madden
Next by James Hynes
Where Are The Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shanty, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
Blast From the Past by Ben Elton
Windows on the World by Frederic Beigbeder
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
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