Books like The Unwritten, Vol. 3: Dead Man's Knock
12 books with a reading profile close to The Unwritten, Vol. 3: Dead Man's Knock by Mike Carey. Open-ended and escapist; 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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2
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. 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 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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5
The Bone Clocks
Also open-ended · 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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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Also open-ended · literary, experimental
Maxine Hong Kingston weaves together her upbringing in mid-century California with the ancestral folklore of her immigrant parents.
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7
Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins
literary, experimental
Alobar, an eighth-century king who refuses to die, escapes his ritual execution and begins an odyssey across centuries alongside a clever peasant girl named Kudra.
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8
Piranesi
Also open-ended · literary, fantasy
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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Another Roadside Attraction
by Tom Robbins
Also open-ended · literary, experimental
Amanda, a young woman from the South, and her husband John Paul Ziller open a roadside zoo and hot-dog stand in the state of Washington, called Captain Ahab's Discount Zoo.
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10
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Also open-ended · literary, fantasy
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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11
1985
by Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess
Also open-ended · literary, experimental
Anthony Burgess divides this work into a critical analysis and a fictional response to George Orwell’s dystopian vision.
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12
Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma
literary, experimental
Ling Ma’s collection contains eight stories where the surreal intersects with the mundane.
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