A Feast of Sorrows

8 best books like A Feast of Sorrows (Angela Slatter): This Tender Land, Silver in the Wood, There Will Come Soft Rains, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Taproot, とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4], The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 1, Dark Tales

This Tender Land
AuthorWilliam Kent Krueger
ISBN1476749299
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.

1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...
Silver in the Wood
AuthorEmily Tesh
ISBN1250229790
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.

When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely...
There Will Come Soft Rains
AuthorRay Bradbury
One of Ray Bradbury’s most poignant short stories, this also has one his most recognized scenes.

Quietly, somberly describing a smart house after a nuclear holocaust, Bradbury uses this Cold War theme as a vehicle to explore our technological advances and how those same advances can lead...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
AuthorBecky Chambers
ISBN0062936018
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
Taproot
AuthorKeezy Young
ISBN1941302467
Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart's content. But something eerie is happening in town, leaving the local afterlife unsettled, and when Blue realizes Hamal's strange ability...
とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4]
AuthorNagabe
ISBN4800007208
Volume 4 of this fantasy/horror series, A Fate Worse than Death, featuring Shiva, Teacher, and Auntie and more backstory about the world and its history are revealed even as we move forward with the story in the present. Back and forth, back and forth. It’s as much a story of gradual uncovering as it...
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 1
AuthorEiji Otsuka
ISBN1616557540
Five spiritualist students at a Buddhist college in Japan realize the job market is tough these days . . . among the living, that is! But the dead need jobs done too, so the five form the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, carrying out the last wishes of their cadaverous clients, so their souls can move on....
Dark Tales
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0241295424
The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best

There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and...
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