Books like Bone Gap
12 books with a reading profile close to Bone Gap by Laura Ruby. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Fox Wife
by Yangsze Choo
mystery, literary
Set in 1908 Manchuria, the narrative follows Snow, a shape-shifting fox spirit seeking revenge for the death of her daughter.
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2
Piranesi
mystery, literary
Piranesi lives within the House, a labyrinth of endless vestibules and staircases where the lower halls flood with tides and the upper reaches are filled with clouds.
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3
The Spear Cuts Through Water
literary, fantasy
In the Strangled Empire, three oppressive princes rule through terror and magical birthrights under their father, the Old Emperor.
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4
Swamplandia!
literary, fantasy
Set in the sinking geography of the Florida Everglades, this novel follows the Bigtree family, a clan of alligator wrestlers struggling to maintain their failing theme park.
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5
Disappearing Earth
mystery, literary
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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6
The Glass Hotel
mystery, literary
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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7
The Wonder
mystery, literary
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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8
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
literary, fantasy
In 1920s Alaska, homesteaders Jack and Mabel struggle with the isolation of the frontier and the grief of their childless marriage.
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9
The Water Dancer
literary, fantasy
Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, the son of an enslaved woman and the white man who owns them both.
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10
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
by Neil Gaiman
literary, fantasy
Fragile Things is an anthology containing over thirty pieces of short fiction and poetry that merge mundane reality with the supernatural.
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11
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
by Neil Gaiman
literary, fantasy
Neil Gaiman's collection includes stories and poems, with an introduction that discusses each one.
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12
De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
mystery, literary
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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