16 Top fiction books like A Dance For the Dead by Nuzo Onoh MFA

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A Dance For the Dead

By: Nuzo Onoh MFA

4.38

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

On a moon-lit night, Diké , heir to the Kingdom and leader of the terrifying warrior cult, the Ogwu…

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Cover of Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Mirra Ginsburg, Michail Bulgakov

1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

Similar categories in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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2. The Ruins

By: Scott Smith

3.68

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more

Similar categories in Scott Smith's The Ruins book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."

-Scott Smith, The Ruins

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3. The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

By: Patrick Rothfuss , Nate Taylor

3.88

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient pa… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Rothfuss's The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5) book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Estaba harta de ser tan única."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

"Some days simply lay on you like stones."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

"...and he was absolutely not a selas sort."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

"Her name was like an echo of an ache in her."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

4. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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5. Unhallowed Graves

By: Nuzo Onoh

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Oja-ale is the night market run by the dead. Everything can be bought for a deadly price. Alan Pear… read more

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6. Go, Went, Gone

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

4.13

Format: None pages,

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more

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7. The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5)

By: Jim Butcher

4.40

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

From the number one New York Times bestselling The Dresden Files series, a brand new novella set af… read more

Similar categories in Jim Butcher's The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5) book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

9. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

By: Max Brooks

3.91

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more

Similar categories in Max Brooks's Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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10. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Gone to See the River Man book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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11. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

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"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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12. 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

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  • 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

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13. 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 Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5) by Charles Stross

14. Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

By: Charles Stross

3.93

Format: 81 pages, Hardcover

Regular readers of Charles Stross's Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard's absence from the … read more

Similar categories in Charles Stross's Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5) book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"There's enough irony in my situation that a skilled blacksmith could turn it into a katana."

-Charles Stross, Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

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15. Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.96

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinét… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1) book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You know people who love you don't hurt you like that," he says, eyes steady on me. "Love's not supposed to try to kill you."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

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16. The Visitor

By: Sergio Gomez

3.34

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas, during one of the worst snowstorms Indiana has ever seen, five strangers are forced t… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex  Jennings

17. The Ballad of Perilous Graves

By: Alex Jennings

3.58

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

In a fantastical version of New Orleans where music is magic, a battle for the city’s soul brews be… read more

Similar categories in Alex Jennings's The Ballad of Perilous Graves book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Border Keeper (Mkalis Cycle #1) by Kerstin  Hall

18. The Border Keeper (Mkalis Cycle #1)

By: Kerstin Hall

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline. In the old … read more

Similar categories in Kerstin Hall's The Border Keeper (Mkalis Cycle #1) book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Fabled Earth

By: Kimberly Brock

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the little-known history of Cumberland Island, The Fabled Earth is a sweeping story of … read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brock's The Fabled Earth book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • fiction
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20. A Dance For the Dead

By: Nuzo Onoh MFA

4.38

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

On a moon-lit night, Diké , heir to the Kingdom and leader of the terrifying warrior cult, the Ogwu… read more

Similar categories in Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead book and Nuzo Onoh MFA's A Dance For the Dead

  • dark fantasy
  • africa
  • fiction
  • horror
  • african literature
  • fantasy

12 Best fantasy books like A Dance For the Dead by Nuzo Onoh MFA

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Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

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The Ruins

Scott Smith

3.68

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The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

Patrick Rothfuss , Nate Taylor

3.88

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The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5)

Jim Butcher

4.40

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8 Best contemporary books like Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire

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Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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A House with Good Bones

T. Kingfisher

3.69

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Michelle Porter

3.84

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