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  • Cover of Fifth Child
    Fifth ChildSeries

    series · 2 books · 1988

    completed

    Literary & general, about parenthood.

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  • Cover of The House on the Borderland
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    William Hope Hodgson · standalone novel · 1908

    Dark in tone, about madness, set in otherworld.

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  • Cover of Concrete Island
    Concrete IslandNovel

    J. G. Ballard · standalone novel · 1974

    Literary & general, about survival, set in europe and big city.

    “Architect Robert Maitland crashes his car onto a stretch of wasteland trapped between three converging motorways -- visible from thousands of cars, reachable by none of them.”

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  • Cover of The Boat of a Million Years
    The Boat of a Million YearsNovel

    Poul Anderson · standalone novel · 1989

    Science fiction, about immortality.

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  • Cover of Mythago Wood
    Mythago WoodSeries

    series · 7 books · 1984

    completed

    Fantasy and mythic fantasy.

    “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.”

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  • Cover of Piranesi
    PiranesiNovel

    Susanna Clarke · standalone novel · 2020

    Fantasy, mysterious in tone, about amnesia, set in otherworld.

    “A man lives in a huge isolated labyrinthine building partially submerged in an ocean, together with another man and 13 skeletons, which is the only world he recalls.”

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