7 Top fantasy books like Hangdog Souls by Marc Joan

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Hangdog Souls

By: Marc Joan

4.47

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Kingdom of Mysore, 1799. A guilt-racked British Army deserter tries to win safety for those he love…

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Cover of A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) by Vernor Vinge

1. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.32

Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more

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  • fantasy
"So even in hell, there are clowns."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So high, so low, so many things to know."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

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2. The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

3.94

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"But you can’t mean—"

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

3. The Saint Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires

By: Eric Stener Carlson

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in brown wibalin cl… read more

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4. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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5. A Luminous Republic

By: Andrés Barba

3.89

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
"Puede que los muertos nos traicionen al abandonarnos, pero nosotros también los traicionamos para vivir."

-Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic

"But trees have no interest in good and evil, insects and plant roots have no interest in the reasons of man, much less his longing, and there is something comforting about that."

-Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic

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6. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
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7. Magma

By: Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is quickly smitten with the in… read more

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  • literary fiction
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8. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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9. Count Luna

By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia

3.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • horror
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10. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

By: Michaela Coel

4.15

Format: 128 pages, ebook

A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life… read more

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  • short stories
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11. Le bestiaire du crépuscule

By: Daria Schmitt

3.22

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Pour les enfants du quartier, le parc est un inoffensif jardin public. Mais pour son gardien, c'est… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
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12. Hangdog Souls

By: Marc Joan

4.47

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Kingdom of Mysore, 1799. A guilt-racked British Army deserter tries to win safety for those he love… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • horror
  • fantasy
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13. Blue Hawk

By: Chloe Turner

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

17th century Gloucestershire. Joan, the daughter of a millworker with drink-fuelled pipe dreams, is… read more

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14. The Eater of Flies

By: Richard Gadz

3.67

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1868. London's West End buzzes with a chaotic blend of affluence and moral decay, a place w… read more

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  • horror
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15. After Silence

By: Jessica Gregson

4.40

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Leningrad, 1941. German forces surround the city at the start of the most harrowing winter in its h… read more

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16. The Burn Street Haunting

By: Richard Gadz

4.26

Format: 248 pages, Unknown Binding

FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2022 NEW GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HORROR London, 1973. A smal… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives by Genevieve Jenner

17. Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives

By: Genevieve Jenner

4.15

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

“We all have imaginary lives, and if we are lucky we have a dish to go with them…” So begins the… read more

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  • short stories
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18. What We Leave Behind

By: Siôn Scott-Wilson

4.60

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A gripping tale of redemption and the power of love set against the backdrop of a historical crime-… read more

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19. The Last Doorbell

By: William Parker

4.06

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

"What the bloody hell am I doing here?" Ben's past was supposed to be behind him: debts paid, sa… read more

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  • literary fiction
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20. Greyskin

By: James Kinsley

4.39

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

It’s the Wild West, but it's wilder than you think... Discover uncharted territories in this pow… read more

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21. The Workshop of Filthy Creation

By: Richard Gadz

3.95

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

In the autumn of 1879, an intelligent, artificially-created being—outwardly a young woman called Ma… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror

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