Ice Land

6 best books like Ice Land (Betsy Tobin): When I Arrived at the Castle, The Bone Houses, Simplicissimus, Quartet in Autumn, The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine, Fleet of Knives

When I Arrived at the Castle
AuthorEmily Carroll
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."

Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
The Bone Houses
AuthorEmily Lloyd-Jones
ISBN0316418412
Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family, and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which...
AuthorHans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
ISBN1903517427
This gaudy, wild, and raw tale of a war-torn 17th Century Europe depicts Simplicissimus as the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor. We follow him from an orphaned childhood to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering adventures, and up to his final vocation...
Quartet in Autumn
AuthorBarbara Pym
ISBN0330326481
This was recommended to me by various bloggers and certainly lived up to their praise. Originally published in 1977, this was Pym’s seventh novel out of nine; she died in 1980. It’s about four London office workers, all sixty-somethings who are partnerless and don’t have, or at least don’t...
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
AuthorJustin McElroy
ISBN1681883813
A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be!

Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered...
Fleet of Knives
AuthorGareth L. Powell
ISBN1982526645
From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series.

The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's...
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