9 must-read science fiction books like The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud

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The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the…

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Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

1. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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2. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

Cover of All the Fiends of Hell by Adam L.G. Nevill

3. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) by Stephen Graham Jones

4. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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5. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

3.93

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a… read more

Similar categories in Justin Cronin's The Ferryman book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

7. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Fever House (Fever House, #1) book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Child Alone With Strangers by Philip Fracassi

8. A Child Alone With Strangers

By: Philip Fracassi

4.28

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's A Child Alone With Strangers book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Whalefall book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

Cover of The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud

10. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • westerns
  • science fiction fantasy
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5) by Laird Barron

11. The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)

By: Laird Barron

4.31

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5) book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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14. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • westerns
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John  Langan

15. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed

17. No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories

By: Premee Mohamed

4.00

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A collection of short fiction by award-winning author Premee Mohamed. read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Massacre at Yellow Hill (The Light Sublime Trilogy #1) by C.S. Humble

18. The Massacre at Yellow Hill (The Light Sublime Trilogy #1)

By: C.S. Humble

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

When George Miller is killed in the mines of Yellow Hill, his wife and children are left to try and… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Humble's The Massacre at Yellow Hill (The Light Sublime Trilogy #1) book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • westerns
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt

19. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wehunt's The Inconsolables book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • fiction
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

Cover of The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) by Christopher Buehlman

20. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

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21. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point book and Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

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The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.00

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The Croning

Laird Barron

3.73

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