17 best-selling fantasy books like The Unnamed Country by Jeffrey Thomas

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The Unnamed Country

By: Jeffrey Thomas

3.93

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

“Other countries have conquered us over our long history, and sometimes they changed our name. Hund…

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Cover of Beneath by Kristi DeMeester

1. Beneath

By: Kristi DeMeester

3.16

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

When reporter Cora Mayburn is assigned to cover a story about a snake-handling cult in rural Appala… read more

Similar categories in Kristi DeMeester's Beneath book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. An Augmented Fourth

By: Tony McMillen

4.21

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

Codger Burton, bassist and lyricist for Frivolous Black, the heaviest heavy metal band to ever come… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

3. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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  • fiction
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Cover of Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8) by Steven Erikson

4. Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

By: Steven Erikson

4.37

Format: 1008 pages, Hardcover

In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is s… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us."

-Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

"If we are to live, we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name."

-Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

"If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier. Just ask the man with the hammer."

-Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

"The dust dreams of the world it had once been. But the dust, alas, does not command the wind."

-Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

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5. The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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7. The Raven's Table: Viking Stories

By: Christine Morgan

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Listen... The furious clangor of battle. The harrowing singing of steel. The desperate cries of wou… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1) by Fritz Leiber

8. Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1)

By: Fritz Leiber

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

For the first time-the story of how the greatest heroes in fantastic literature first met. 'The two… read more

Similar categories in Fritz Leiber's Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country

  • fantasy
  • fiction

9. Tainaron: Mail from Another City

By: Leena Krohn , Hildi Hawkins

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. Nominated for the prest… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin

10. She Said Destroy

By: Nadia Bulkin

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

Word Horde presents the debut collection from critically-acclaimed Weird Fiction author Nadia Bulki… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

Cover of Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) by Steven Erikson, Gabriel Stoian

12. Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

By: Steven Erikson , Gabriel Stoian

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers … read more

Similar categories in Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

13. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

Similar categories in Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

14. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more

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15. Xenos

By: Dan Abnett

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

The Inquisition moves amongst mankind like an avenging shadow, striking down the enemies of humanit… read more

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16. Furnace

By: Livia Llewellyn

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them… read more

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17. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

Cover of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

18. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

19. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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20. Gothic

By: Philip Fracassi

3.83

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The True Bastards (The Lot Lands, #2) by Jonathan  French

21. The True Bastards (The Lot Lands, #2)

By: Jonathan French

4.16

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

Fetching was once the only female rider in the Lot Lands. Now she is the leader of her own hoof, a … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales

By: Orrin Grey

4.29

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Orrin Grey has a knack for cruel stories. Contes Cruel, to be exact. Sardonic Tales like the fou… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Memento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows by Brian Hauser

23. Memento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows

By: Brian Hauser

3.96

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Underground filmmaker Tina Mori became a legend in the late 1970s with a stolen camera, a series of… read more

Similar categories in Brian Hauser's Memento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Stonefish by Scott R. Jones

24. Stonefish

By: Scott R. Jones

3.72

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing tech mogul... a jaded reporter... a damaged AI returned from a horrifying reality... and … read more

Similar categories in Scott R. Jones's Stonefish book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Sick Gray Laugh by Nicole Cushing

25. A Sick Gray Laugh

By: Nicole Cushing

3.78

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Noelle Cashman is no stranger to depression and anxiety. In fact, her entire a… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Unnamed Country by Jeffrey Thomas

26. The Unnamed Country

By: Jeffrey Thomas

3.93

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

“Other countries have conquered us over our long history, and sometimes they changed our name. Hund… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country book and Jeffrey Thomas's The Unnamed Country

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Hawk in the Woods by Carrie Laben

27. A Hawk in the Woods

By: Carrie Laben

3.68

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

When newscaster Abby Waite is diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, she decides to do the … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

22 Top fiction books like The Unnamed Country by Jeffrey Thomas

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Kristi DeMeester

3.16

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

Steven Erikson

4.37

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Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

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C.L. Moore

3.72

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The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Jack Vance

3.89

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Michael Moorcock

4.02

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3.64

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