9 Best fantasy books like On the Edges of Vision by Helen McClory

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On the Edges of Vision

By: Helen McClory

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

"Her edgy stories transmit the strangeness of realities in a way that’s comforting precisely becaus…

If you liked the fantasy plot in On the Edges of Vision by Helen McClory , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Vagina Monologues

By: Gloria Steinem , V (formerly Eve Ensler)

3.87

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monolo… read more

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"Falo porque não devia falar."

-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues

"Minha revolução vai dar um golpe no Estado mental chamado patriarcado."

-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues

"We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot."

-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues

"Saying the word I was not supposed to say is the thing that gave me a voice in the world."

-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues

Cover of Metropole by George Szirtes, Ferenc Karinthy

2. Metropole

By: George Szirtes , Ferenc Karinthy

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understan… read more

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  • fiction
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3. 4 3 2 1

By: Paul Auster

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster's greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking n… read more

Similar categories in Paul Auster's 4 3 2 1 book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fiction
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4. Teatro Grottesco

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.29

Format: 128 pages,

This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns,… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Ligotti's Teatro Grottesco book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Rain (Blackwater, #6) by Michael McDowell

5. Rain (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Rain (Blackwater, #6) book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Accabadora

By: Michela Murgia

4.07

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more

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  • fiction
"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

7. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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8. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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9. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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10. Horrorstör

By: Grady Hendrix , None

3.66

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, … read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Horrorstör book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"All great works must begin with a sacrifice."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"the day had been long and her emotions were toast."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"I know this is your religion, but for me it’s just a job."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

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11. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

Similar categories in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fantasy
  • scotland
  • fiction
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

12. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

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13. Gilded Needles

By: Michael McDowell

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunke… read more

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14. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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15. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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16. Grande meraviglia

By: Viola Ardone

4.18

Format: 304 pages, ebook

«L'amore è incomprensibile, una forma di pazzia». Nel candore dello sguardo di Elba il manicomio di… read more

Similar categories in Viola Ardone's Grande meraviglia book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fiction
Cover of La vita è breve, eccetera by Veronica Raimo

17. La vita è breve, eccetera

By: Veronica Raimo

3.11

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Undici racconti irriverenti, comici e amari insieme, in cui le relazioni sono piene di spigoli, e l… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Raimo's La vita è breve, eccetera book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. What Happens at Night

By: Peter Cameron

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more

Similar categories in Peter Cameron's What Happens at Night book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Parti e omicidi

By: Sayaka Murata

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Parti e omicidi book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

Similar categories in Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fiction
  • horror
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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21. Appartamento 401

By: Shūichi Yoshida

3.31

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Ryosuke, Kotomi, Mirai, Naoki condividono un appartamento nel quartiere di Setagaya di Tokyo. La vi… read more

Similar categories in Shūichi Yoshida's Appartamento 401 book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fiction
"I hate that word." "What word?" "Truth. I don't feel any truth in it."

-Shūichi Yoshida, Appartamento 401

"It was tough coming to the realization that I wasn’t interested in anything, though realizing it didn’t mean I could then immediately find something to engage my interest. I tried to think of somethi…"

-Shūichi Yoshida, Appartamento 401

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22. Brividi: Storie che non vi faranno dormire la notte

By: Elisa De Marco

3.69

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

Le storie raccontate da Elisa De Marco nel suo canale «Elisa True Crime» sono ormai diventate un ap… read more

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Cover of Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

23. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Funeral Songs for Dying Girls book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. Convalescenza

By: Han Kang

3.77

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Una donna cerca risposta agli interrogativi che la morte della sorella ha lasciato insoluti: perché… read more

Similar categories in Han Kang's Convalescenza book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Cedi la strada agli alberi by Franco Arminio

25. Cedi la strada agli alberi

By: Franco Arminio

4.04

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

“La prima volta non fu quando ci spogliammoma qualche giorno prima,mentre parlavi sotto un albero.S… read more

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Cover of El dique (Blackwater, #2) by Michael McDowell

26. El dique (Blackwater, #2)

By: Michael McDowell

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's El dique (Blackwater, #2) book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

Cover of On the Edges of Vision by Helen McClory

27. On the Edges of Vision

By: Helen McClory

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

"Her edgy stories transmit the strangeness of realities in a way that’s comforting precisely becaus… read more

Similar categories in Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • magical realism
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Aldilà by Andrea Morstabilini

28. Aldilà

By: Andrea Morstabilini

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In una pianura immobile e silenziosa, attraversata da un lento fiume, sorge una casa inquietante e … read more

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29. Attraverso la notte

By: William Sloane

3.78

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

«Alcune esperienze sono estranee alla vita di tutti i giorni, “condannate per un certo tempo a erra… read more

Similar categories in William Sloane's Attraverso la notte book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of There's No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes

30. There's No Turning Back

By: Alba de Céspedes

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the astonishingly powerful debut novel by the beloved feminist author of the “brilliant” (… read more

Similar categories in Alba de Céspedes's There's No Turning Back book and Helen McClory's On the Edges of Vision

  • fiction
"A casa, ormai, non si può più tornare. I genitori non dovrebbero mandarci in città. Dopo, anche se torniamo, siamo cattive figlie, cattive mogli. Chi può dimenticare di essere stata padrona di se ste…"

-Alba de Céspedes, There's No Turning Back

"Eppure era così; nulla può distruggere, annientare un passato: tu accuratamente lo nascondi, lo occulti, nessuno ha visto, nessuno ha saputo, fuorché te stessa, e tu non parlerai mai. E invece seguit…"

-Alba de Céspedes, There's No Turning Back

21 best-selling fiction books like On the Edges of Vision by Helen McClory

Transform Your Habits

Metropole

George Szirtes , Ferenc Karinthy

4.00

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4 3 2 1

Paul Auster

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Teatro Grottesco

Thomas Ligotti

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Rain (Blackwater, #6)

Michael McDowell

4.16

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25 best-selling fiction books like La vita è breve, eccetera by Veronica Raimo

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Baumgartner

Paul Auster

3.78

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Romanzo senza umani

Paolo Di Paolo

3.09

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Chi dice e chi tace

Chiara Valerio

3.77

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I giorni di Vetro

Nicoletta Verna

4.57

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