Books like The Starless Sea
12 books with a reading profile close to The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
by Neil Gaiman
narrative, literary
Dream Country consists of four independent stories that depict how Morpheus influences the waking world through imagination and myth.
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The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
by Neil Gaiman
narrative, literary
Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, travels to the gates of Hell to rescue Nada, a lover he unjustly condemned to eternal torment ten thousand years earlier.
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3
Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss Collection 3 Books Set
narrative, literary
This set follows Kvothe, an orphan who survives life as a beggar in Tarbean before gaining entry to the University to study sympathy, a logic-based system of magic.
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4
The Deep
narrative, literary
Inspired by a song by the group clipping., this novella follows the wajinru, water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard during the Atlantic slave trade.
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5
Tigana
narrative, literary
Set in a Mediterranean-inspired peninsula called the Palm, the narrative centers on a group of rebels attempting to overthrow two rival sorcerer-kings, Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbentain.
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6
Swamplandia!
narrative, literary
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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7
Juniper & Thorn
by Ava Reid
narrative, literary
Set in a fictionalized nineteenth-century Odessa, this gothic fairy tale follows Marlinchen, the youngest of three sisters who live under the suffocating control of their father, a wizard named Zmey.
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8
Gods of Jade and Shadow
narrative, literary
Set in 1920s Mexico, the story follows Casiopea Tun, a young woman living a life of servitude in her grandfather’s house.
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9
Once Upon a River
narrative, literary
On a winter night at the Swan Inn along the Thames, a wounded stranger staggers through the door carrying the lifeless body of a small girl.
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10
The Water Dancer
narrative, literary
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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11
The Bright Sword
by Lev Grossman
narrative, literary
Lev Grossman retells the Arthurian legend from the point of view of Collum, a young man who arrives at Camelot after the king's fall.
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12
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
narrative, literary
A lonely cartographer finds himself drawn to a mysterious walled city, a place that seems to exist in a liminal space between reality and dream.
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