6 must-read science fiction books like The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

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The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the…

"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, systems will break down because they always break down. America won't last forever because nothing does or ever will. And we'll think that's the end of the world. Like while it's happening, that's what we'll call it. But then, thousands of years later . . . there will still be people. They'll just be . . . you know . . . different."

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, systems will break down because they always break down. America won't last forever because nothing does or ever will. And we'll think that's the end of the world. Like while it's happening, that's what we'll call it. but then, thousands of years later. . . . There will still be people. They'll just be . . . you know . . . different."

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Where Monsters Lie

By: Kyle Starks

3.71

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A brand-new meta-horror story that's Cabin in the Woods meets Tucker and Dale vs. Evil . Haven’t… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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2. Basketful of Heads

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

June Branch visits her boyfriend, Liam, on Brody Island for a relaxing last weekend of summer. Afte… read more

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  • dc comics
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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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3. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

By: Tom King

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

It’s Supergirl like you’ve never seen her before, in a character-defining sci-fi/fantasy masterpiec… read more

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  • dc comics
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"And that's when I learned that far-off gods are fine for prayer, and I judge no person who seeks comfort in the infinity of the heavens. But here below, when the demons come in close, you're better o…"

-Tom King, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Cover of Public Domain, Volume 1: Past Mistakes by Chip Zdarsky

4. Public Domain, Volume 1: Past Mistakes

By: Chip Zdarsky

3.94

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Syd Dallas is responsible for pop culture's greatest hero: THE DOMAIN! But his sons Miles and David… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
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5. Do a Powerbomb!

By: Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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6. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • mystery
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7. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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8. Night Fever

By: Ed Brubaker

3.87

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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9. The Me You Love in the Dark: Books 1-5

By: Skottie Young

3.70

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An artist named Ro retreats from the grind of the city to an old house in a small town. She hopes … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie M. Liu

10. The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first volume in a new graphic novel horror trilogy from Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda—the creati… read more

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  • graphic novels
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  • horror
  • adult
"No creepy dolls!"

-Marjorie M. Liu, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

"It’s Sarlaac Satan!"

-Marjorie M. Liu, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

"Not the demon anus!"

-Marjorie M. Liu, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

"Oh my God. We’re superheroes."

-Marjorie M. Liu, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

Cover of The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway (The Bone Orchard Mythos, #1) by Jeff Lemire

11. The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway (The Bone Orchard Mythos, #1)

By: Jeff Lemire

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From the creative team of GIDEON FALLS and PRIMORDIAL comes the first book in a bold and ambitious … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
Cover of Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn by Jeff Lemire

12. Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn

By: Jeff Lemire

4.15

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The legend of the Black Barn tells of an otherworldly building that has appeared and reappeared thr… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
Cover of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V.

13. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

By: Ram V.

4.30

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a jo… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
"Perhaps it is enough to remember at story's end the miracle that it was simply to have lived."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"If life's an exercise in making memories...no one really goes away as long as they are remembered."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"And in the days that follow, the possibilities of what could've been begin to fall away. Leaving you with less, each time-- more precious, to be savored. Like a cigarette. The point of life, my frien…"

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

Cover of The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

14. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more

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  • dc comics
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • science fiction
"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

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15. The Human Target: Volume 2

By: Tom King

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed art… read more

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  • dc comics
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
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  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Human Target, Volume 1 by Tom King

16. The Human Target, Volume 1

By: Tom King

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed art… read more

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  • dc comics
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  • mystery
Cover of Love Everlasting, Volume 1 (Love Everlasting, #1) by Tom King

17. Love Everlasting, Volume 1 (Love Everlasting, #1)

By: Tom King

3.56

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

From superstar creators Tom King and Elsa Charretier comes he first volume of a thrilling epic in t… read more

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  • mystery
  • science fiction
Cover of Local Man Vol. 1: Heartland by Tim Seeley

18. Local Man Vol. 1: Heartland

By: Tim Seeley

3.93

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

STRAY DOGS creator TONY FLEECS teams with REVIVAL's TIM SEELEY for a wildly critically acclaimed st… read more

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Cover of The Cull Volume 1 by Kelly Thompson

19. The Cull Volume 1

By: Kelly Thompson

3.78

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Eisner-winning writer Kelly Thompson re-teams with superstar artist Mattia De Iulis for their first… read more

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  • mystery
  • science fiction
Cover of Little Monsters, Volume 1 by Jeff Lemire

20. Little Monsters, Volume 1

By: Jeff Lemire

3.80

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

They are the last children on Earth... who also happen to be vampires. For longer than they can rem… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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Cover of Bone Orchard Mythos: Ten Thousand Black Feathers (The Bone Orchard Mythos, #2) by Jeff Lemire

21. Bone Orchard Mythos: Ten Thousand Black Feathers (The Bone Orchard Mythos, #2)

By: Jeff Lemire

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed creative team behind GIDEON FALLS, PRIMORDIAL, and THE PASSAGEWAY comes a new st… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery

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