22 Top fiction books like The Council of Animals by Nick McDonell

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The Council of Animals

By: Nick McDonell

3.58

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

A captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) …

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1. Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

By: Alexis M. Smith

3.77

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off… read more

Similar categories in Alexis M. Smith's Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice) book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"The woman seems ready to be pleased with the world."

-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

"We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive."

-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

"There's not a thing in the world that will not change, including you."

-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

"Monotonous and thankless as her job can be sometimes, she cheers at the thought of her coworkers - a dozen of them crammed into their little offices in the basement - all cleverly disguised as harmle…"

-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

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2. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

By: Thomas Page McBee

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In Man Alive, McBee asks, "What does it really mean to be a man?" by focusing on two of the most im… read more

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3. What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy

By: Gregory Maguire

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the best-selling WICKED, a transporting tale-within-a-tale about the strange wor… read more

Similar categories in Gregory Maguire's What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

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4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • animals
  • audiobook
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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5. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • adult fiction
  • animals
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Swim Home to the Vanished

By: Brendan Shay Basham

3.35

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the river swallowed Kai, Damien’s little brother didn’t die so much as vanish. As the unbea… read more

Similar categories in Brendan Shay Basham's Swim Home to the Vanished book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • science fiction fantasy
  • animals
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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8. Baby X

By: Kira Peikoff

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest b… read more

Similar categories in Kira Peikoff's Baby X book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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9. The Nighthouse Keeper (Blight Harbor)

By: Lora Senf

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Evie once again leaves her world behind to rescue Blight Harbor’s ghosts in this second book in the… read more

Similar categories in Lora Senf's The Nighthouse Keeper (Blight Harbor) book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Council of Animals by Nick McDonell

10. The Council of Animals

By: Nick McDonell

3.58

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

A captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) … read more

Similar categories in Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • adult fiction
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • animals
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. One Woman Show

By: Christine Coulson

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more

Similar categories in Christine Coulson's One Woman Show book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews

12. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond

By: Robin George Andrews

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more

Similar categories in Robin George Andrews's Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • audiobook
Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

13. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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14. The Last Animal

By: Ramona Ausubel

3.47

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more

Similar categories in Ramona Ausubel's The Last Animal book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • adult fiction
  • animals
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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15. King Nyx

By: Kirsten Bakis

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the contemporary cult classic, Lives of the Monster Dogs , comes a haunting myst… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Bakis's King Nyx book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • adult fiction
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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17. The Memory of Animals

By: Claire Fuller

3.61

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Un… read more

Similar categories in Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans."

-Claire Fuller, The Memory of Animals

Cover of Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas Brinkley

18. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

By: Douglas Brinkley

4.35

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of e… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Brinkley's Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • audiobook
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19. Hollowthorn (Ravenfall #2)

By: Kalyn Josephson

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding sequel to Ravenfall, two kids with supernatural powers must venture into the O… read more

Similar categories in Kalyn Josephson's Hollowthorn (Ravenfall #2) book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • fantasy
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20. Shoot the Moon

By: Isa Arsén

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How far would you travel for love? Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk fee… read more

Similar categories in Isa Arsén's Shoot the Moon book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law

By: Beverley McLachlin

4.28

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revea… read more

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22. The Nature of Disappearing

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her … read more

Similar categories in Kimi Cunningham Grant's The Nature of Disappearing book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"All of them skated through life making choices that could be swept away and tidied up with incomprehensible ease simply because of who they were."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

"This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little poi…"

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

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23. Vampiric Vacation (Sinister Summer #2)

By: Kiersten White

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spooky summer adventures of the Sinister-Winterbottom twins continue in another gothic mystery:… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Vampiric Vacation (Sinister Summer #2) book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Princess Beard (The Tales of Pell, #3) by Delilah S. Dawson

24. The Princess Beard (The Tales of Pell, #3)

By: Delilah S. Dawson

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Shave the princess? Inconceivable! The hilarious bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy and No Co… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's The Princess Beard (The Tales of Pell, #3) book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.) by Trae Crowder

25. Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.)

By: Trae Crowder

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent t… read more

Similar categories in Trae Crowder's Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.) book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • audiobook
Cover of The Sky Vault (The Comet Cycle #3) by Benjamin Percy

26. The Sky Vault (The Comet Cycle #3)

By: Benjamin Percy

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The third book in Percy’s innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault, follows an investiga… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Percy's The Sky Vault (The Comet Cycle #3) book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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27. The Two Doctors Górski

By: Isaac Fellman

3.44

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can’t stop… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's The Two Doctors Górski book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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28. Hearts of Oak

By: Eddie Robson

3.60

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

The buildings grow. And the city expands. And the people of the land are starting to behave a… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Robson's Hearts of Oak book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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29. Off Season

By: James Sturm

3.54

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Rage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see, taste, and feel. H… read more

Similar categories in James Sturm's Off Season book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • fiction
Cover of The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius by Kendra Adachi

30. The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

By: Kendra Adachi

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way brings her beloved Kind Big Sister Ene… read more

Similar categories in Kendra Adachi's The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

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31. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and Nick McDonell's The Council of Animals

  • adult fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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Swim Home to the Vanished

Brendan Shay Basham

3.35

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Ray Nayler

3.85

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Baby X

Kira Peikoff

3.87

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Lora Senf

4.20

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Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Nick Harkaway

4.03

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Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

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Naomi Alderman

3.86

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