Books like The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man
12 books with a reading profile close to The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man by Mike Carey. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
literary, fantasy
Mark Helprin's novel is set in a mythic New York, where Peter Lake, an orphan raised by tugboat workers, becomes a master burglar.
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The Starless Sea
literary, fantasy
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student who discovers a strange library book containing a detailed account of his own childhood.
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The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
by Neil Gaiman
literary, fantasy
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
literary, fantasy
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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The road goes ever on
by Donald Swann, J.R.R. Tolkien
literary, fantasy
The Road Goes Ever On is a formal song cycle consisting of music composed by Donald Swann for poems written by J.R.R.
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Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
by Alan Moore
fantasy, experimental
When writer Alan Moore took over the title in 1983, he restructured the protagonist’s origin through a biological revelation.
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Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss Collection 3 Books Set
literary, fantasy
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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The Bone Clocks
literary, fantasy
Beginning with Holly Sykes as a runaway teenager in 1984, this narrative follows her lifespan through six interconnected sections spanning decades and continents.
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Blood Over Bright Haven
by M.L. Wang
literary, fantasy
Scilla Highborn is the first woman admitted into the High Circle of mages in Bright Haven, a city powered by magical energy harvested through precise mathematical equations.
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Mona Lisa Overdrive
literary, experimental
The narrative follows four converging plotlines eight years after the events of Count Zero: a young Japanese girl sent to London for safety, a prostitute named Mona who undergoes surgical alteration to impersonate a fam…
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Stone Blind
literary, fantasy
Natalie Haynes reconstructs the myth of Medusa, shifting the perspective from the hero Perseus to the mortal Gorgon herself.
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