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- Beyond Black
Hilary Mantelstandalone novel2005
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Beyond Black is a 2005 novel by English writer Hilary Mantel. It was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction.
- Lost
Gregory Maguirestandalone novel2001
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Lost is a 2001 novel by American author Gregory Maguire. Unlike many of Maguire's other adult novels, Lost is set in the real world. The novel's concept is that the protagonist is a distant relative of the man who inspired Charles Dickens' character of Ebenezer Scrooge.
- Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfeghstandalone novel2020
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Death in Her Hands is a 2020 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh.
- The Juniper Tree
Barbara Comynsstandalone novel1985
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The Juniper Tree is a 1985 novel by British writer Barbara Comyns. The penultimate novel of the author, it combines gothic literature, family drama, magical realism, and fairy tale. The book contains allusions to the 1812 fairy tale "The Juniper Tree" by the Brothers Grimm, which is where the title of the novel comes from. The story features Bella Winter, a homeless, jobless mother of a toddler, who is disfigured from a car accident and distancing herself from her abusive mother.
- Observatory Mansions
Edward Careystandalone novel2000
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"Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form."-- John Fowles, author of The MagusObservatory Mansions, once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral home set on beautiful grounds, is now a crumbling apartment block stranded on a traffic island, peopled with eccentrics.Thirty-seven-year-old Francis Orme lives in Observatory Mansions with his peculiar parents and a collection of misfits. By day he is a street performer, earning money as "a statue of whiteness" in the park, wearing white gloves to ensure that his skin never touches anything. He steals items for his museum of significant objects (996 in all), not for their monetary value but because they have been loved, often bringing grief to their erstwhile owners. His bedridden mother, Alice, who has created for herself an alternative time frame called "fiction," and his father, Francis, are among the occupants set apart from the rest of the busy city by their histories, their memories, and their relationships with the other seven inhabitants of the flats.Each of the house dwellers has his or her own story, as seen through Francis's eyes, and the careful routine and harmony of the house are shaken when along comes a new resident, the half-blind, vulnerable Anna Tap. She is sympathetic and resourceful, and slowly the desperately lonely residents begin to open up their long-closed hearts. As the delicate balance of Observatory Mansions begins to shift, Francis finds himself having to protect the secrets of his past and the sanctity of his collection, while growing emotionally closer to Anna.Hailed as no less than a tour de force, Observatory Mansions is a debut novel of immense originality--a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.From the Hardcover edition.
- Shade
Neil Jordanstandalone novel2004
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Shade is a novel published in 2004 by the Irish novelist and film writer Neil Jordan.
- Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffeneggerstandalone novel2009
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Her Fearful Symmetry is a horror novel by the American writer Audrey Niffenegger. The book was published on October 1, 2009 and is set in and around London's Highgate Cemetery where, after a year of research for the book, Niffenegger acted as a tour guide.
- Mythago Wood
series7 books1984
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Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood is set around Ryhope Wood, a small patch of ancient British woodland that is somehow far larger on the inside, generating 'mythagos' -- physical embodiments of myth and legend drawn from visitors' own collective unconscious. The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras. It blends fantasy with psychology and British folklore rather than a conventional quest structure.
- Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1975
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Dhalgren is a 1975 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany. It features an extended trip to and through Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the world by an unknown catastrophe. It is number 33 on the 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction list.
- Mickelsson's Ghosts
John Gardnerstandalone novel1982
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Mickelsson's Ghosts, published in 1982, is American writer John Gardner's ninth novel. It was the final novel published during Gardner’s lifetime.
- Dream Archipelago
series16 books1976
completed
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Christopher Priest's Dream Archipelago stories return again and again to a vast chain of islands stretched across a world locked in permanent, distant war between two continental powers, without ever quite settling whether the archipelago is a real place or something closer to collective dream or fiction within the fiction. Novels like The Affirmation and The Islanders, along with numerous short stories, revisit the setting from different, often contradictory angles rather than building one continuous narrative. The ambiguity between what's real and what's invented is treated as the point, not a gap to be resolved.
- Heaven Eyes
David Almondstandalone novel2000
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Heaven Eyes is a young adult novel by author David Almond. It was published in Great Britain by Hodder Children's Books in 2000 and by Delacorte Press in the United States in 2001. A paperback version was released in 2002 by Dell Laurel Leaf.
- Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishigurostandalone novel2005
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Never Let Me Go is a 2005 science fiction novel by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005. It included the novel in its '100 Best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME'. It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010.
- The Drowning Girl
Caitlín R. Kiernanstandalone novel2012
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The Drowning Girl: A Memoir is a 2012 dark fantasy novel by American writer Caitlín R. Kiernan, set in Providence, Rhode Island. The story's protagonist and unreliable narrator, India Morgan Phelps, has schizophrenia.
- Shark Heart
Emily Habeckstandalone novel2023
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Subtitled "A Love Story"
- Sacrament
Clive Barkerstandalone novel1995
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Sacrament is a 1996 novel by British author Clive Barker. It follows a wildlife photographer who is obsessed with documenting species of animals that are faced with extinction. It is set in Yorkshire, England, San Francisco and Hudson Bay, Canada and explores how his obsession is connected to his upbringing in Yorkshire. The Author described it as "a story about how we become who we are and how we must deal with what we are by facing up to including the things that happened to us in childhood, good and bad. It's also about what's happening to our planet."
- A Monster Calls
series2 books2011
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A Monster Calls follows a boy struggling with his mother's terminal illness, who is visited each night by a tree-like monster demanding an honest story from him in exchange for the unsettling tales it tells. Patrick Ness wrote the novel from an idea left unfinished by Siobhan Dowd, who died of cancer before she could write it herself, with illustrations by Jim Kay integral to the original edition. It was later adapted for the stage.
- Living in Ether
Patricia Gearystandalone novel1982
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A medium, living a somewhat free-associational life, is haunted by the ghosts (at least one of them real) of her past.
