5 best-selling fantasy books like King of the City by Michael Moorcock

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King of the City

By: Michael Moorcock

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Michael Moorcock, returns with the story of the times and trials of Dennis Dover, former rock guita…

If you liked the fantasy plot in King of the City by Michael Moorcock , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Fevre Dream

By: George R.R. Martin

3.89

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy arist… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Sometimes I think … the humanity of him is all hollow, a mask … he is only an old animal, so ancient it has lost even the taste for food, but it hunts on nonetheless, because that is all it remembers…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noti…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"You know I never held much with slavery, even if I never done much against it neither. I would of, but those damned abolitionists were such Bible-thumpers. Only I been thinkin', and it seems to me ma…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"ABNER Marsh had a mind that was not unlike his body. It was big all around, ample in size and capacity, and he crammed all sorts of things into it. It was strong as well; when Abner Marsh took someth…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

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2. Wise Blood

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Jesus died to redeem you,"

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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3. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"

-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

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4. Sycamore Gap (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #2)

By: L.J. Ross

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan believes he has put his turbulent history behind him. Then, in the e… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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6. Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1)

By: Henning Mankell , Steven T. Murray

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Accidental Woman

By: Jonathan Coe

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

Indifferent by choice, indecisive by nature, Maria ploughs her way through fifteen years of womanho… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • english literature

8. All My Puny Sorrows

By: Miriam Toews

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poigna… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction

9. The Sword of Honour Trilogy

By: Evelyn Waugh , Frank Kermode

3.43

Format: 64 pages,

This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer,… read more

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10. The Fifth Woman (Kurt Wallander, #6)

By: Henning Mankell , Steven T. Murray

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman… read more

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11. Anything Is Possible

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.20

Format: None pages,

Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more

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12. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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13. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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14. The Secret Lives of Color

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more

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"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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15. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

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17. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5) by James S.A. Corey

18. The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.14

Format: 64 pages, ebook

Through one of the gates, a colony stands alone. Their supplies are low. Their defenses, weak. The … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews

4.04

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"

-Miriam Toews, Fight Night

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20. 1989 (Allie Burns, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestsel… read more

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  • fiction
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21. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

By: Claire North

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter… read more

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  • novels
"To regret your soul is to regret your past."

-Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

"Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all."

-Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

"There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost."

-Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

"Forgive me," I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break."

-Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

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22. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

By: Mel Brooks

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, a… read more

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"I didn’t realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn’t have had to write this book."

-Mel Brooks, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

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23. Illuminations: Stories

By: Alan Moore

3.53

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a se… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of comp…"

-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories

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24. Mr Wilder & Me

By: Jonathan Coe

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England In the heady… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"In circumstances this desperate there is only one thing that can console me. I always keep at least three different kinds of Brie in the kitchen for emergency situations."

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"Mi hija tenía razón: la gente joven no se fija en los sentimientos de sus padres, ni siquiera es consciente de ellos la mayor parte del tiempo. Viven en un bendito estado de sociopatía en lo que resp…"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot …"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that…"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

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25. How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

By: James O'Brien

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists … read more

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  • politics
"Theresa May took this aversion to thinking to its apotheosis when she declared that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ shortly after becoming prime minister in July 2016. Even by the standards of modern British p…"

-James O'Brien, How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

Cover of Seven Bridges (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #8) by L.J. Ross

26. Seven Bridges (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #8)

By: L.J. Ross

4.46

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been five months since a killer walked free and DCI Ryan is preparing to leave Newcastle to hu… read more

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  • fiction
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27. King of the City

By: Michael Moorcock

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Michael Moorcock, returns with the story of the times and trials of Dennis Dover, former rock guita… read more

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  • fiction
  • english literature
  • novels
  • fantasy

19 Best fiction books like King of the City by Michael Moorcock

Transform Your Habits

Fevre Dream

George R.R. Martin

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

Elmore Leonard

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Sycamore Gap (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #2)

L.J. Ross

4.26

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17 Top fiction books like All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

3.75

Transform Your Habits

El cielo de la selva

Elaine Vilar Madruga

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Como bestias

Violaine Bérot

4.30

Transform Your Habits

La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

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