24 Best fiction books like Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land by Malcolm Devlin

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Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land crosses genres and dimensions, exploring …

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1. Found Audio

By: N.J. Campbell

5.00

Format: None pages,

Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial … read more

Similar categories in N.J. Campbell's Found Audio book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kaner's Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
"But gods love martyrs."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

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3. Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.03

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a be… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7) book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
  • horror
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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5. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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6. In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.92

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible … read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5) book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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8. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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9. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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10. The Twyford Code

By: Janice Hallett

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"

-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code

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11. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
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12. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

Similar categories in George Saunders's Liberation Day book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

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13. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

Similar categories in Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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14. Run Time

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Movie-making can be murder. The project Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Th… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ryan Howard's Run Time book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
  • horror
"I had really begun to understand why people overeat. It isn't what they eat, it's why they eat it: because when you feel literally full from food, it's a brief respite from feeling figuratively empty…"

-Catherine Ryan Howard, Run Time

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15. We Spread

By: Iain Reid

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's We Spread book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
  • horror
"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

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16. Hummingbird Salamander

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered sp… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Hummingbird Salamander book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"But the trick of the world was to contain all things."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"The Christmas decorations at the entrance were garish, incomprehensible, partisan. What kind of a country did we live in?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

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17. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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18. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

Similar categories in Sven Holm's Termush book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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19. Reprieve

By: James Han Mattson

3.40

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killi… read more

Similar categories in James Han Mattson's Reprieve book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Witch in the Well

By: Camilla Bruce

3.01

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The Witch in the Well is a dark Norwegian thriller from Camilla Bruce, author of You Let Me In. Wh… read more

Similar categories in Camilla Bruce's The Witch in the Well book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
  • horror
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21. A History of Fear

By: Luke Dumas

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devi… read more

Similar categories in Luke Dumas's A History of Fear book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's The Forester's Daughter book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. Wish I Was Here

By: M. John Harrison

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'Is M John Harrison the best writer at work today? He's certainly among the deftest and most origin… read more

Similar categories in M. John Harrison's Wish I Was Here book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

"Much of life, you will never know what happened to you at all, let alone to anyone else."

-M. John Harrison, Wish I Was Here

Cover of Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl by Markiyan Kamysh

24. Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl

By: Markiyan Kamysh

3.29

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Trainspotting meets A Field Guide to Getting Lost in this rare portrait of the dystopian reality th… read more

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25. The Dead Hours of Night

By: Lisa Tuttle

4.12

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

In a career spanning almost 50 years, Lisa Tuttle has proven herself a master of the weird tale, an… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Tuttle's The Dead Hours of Night book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Always North

By: Vicki Jarrett

3.62

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

We all have to work to live, even if it is an illegal survey for oil in the rapidly melting arctic.… read more

Similar categories in Vicki Jarrett's Always North book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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27. This Dreaming Isle

By: Dan Coxon

3.75

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Something strange is happening on British shores. Britain has a long history of folk tales, ghos… read more

Similar categories in Dan Coxon's This Dreaming Isle book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land crosses genres and dimensions, exploring … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Beast (Six Stories, #4) by Matt Wesolowski

29. Beast (Six Stories, #4)

By: Matt Wesolowski

3.89

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Whirlwind Romance

By: Sam Thompson

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“Twelve years ago he had met Fern and the things had arrived, nameless then, crooning and sniggerin… read more

Similar categories in Sam Thompson's Whirlwind Romance book and Malcolm Devlin's Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

  • short stories

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3.78

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3.86

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