Red Spikes
10 best books like Red Spikes (Margo Lanagan): The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Hildafolk, Tricks, Beautiful Darkness, Fallout, Get Well Soon, The Ice Queen, The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories, Lips Touch: Three Times, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 0312649614 |
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help...
| Author | Luke Pearson |
| ISBN | 1907704043 |
“Hilda is the little girl. And this is her folk tale. And pretty much everything you need to know about how good this is, is there on that absolutely gorgeously delightful cover above. By the end of it, you’ll have exactly the same smile as Hilda has.”
— Forbidden Planet
Hilda sits...
| Author | Ellen Hopkins |
| ISBN | 1416950079 |
Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching ... for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don't expect,...
| Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
| ISBN | 1770461299 |
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
| Author | Ellen Hopkins |
| ISBN | 1416950095 |
Hunter. Autumn. Summer.
Different homes. Different guardians. Different last names.
Different lives.
But there is one person who binds them together.
Kristina.
Nineteen years after Kristina Snow met the monster---crank---her children are reeling from the consequences...
| Author | Julie Halpern |
| ISBN | 0312367953 |
Anna Bloom is depressed—so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her.
But wait!...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0316154385 |
From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.
Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 1931520577 |
This is the first complete collection of Joan Aiken’s beloved Armitage stories—and it includes four new, unpublished stories. After Mrs. Armitage makes a wish, the Armitage family has “interesting and unusual” experiences every Monday (and the occasional Tuesday). The Board of Incantation...
| Author | Laini Taylor |
| ISBN | 0545055857 |
Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls:
Goblin Fruit
In Victorian times, goblin men had only to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. But what does it take...
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
| Author | Barbara K. Lipska |
| ISBN | 1328787303 |
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, the author experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to a range of mental disorders, including her professional specialty, schizophrenia....
| Author | Harold Schechter |
| ISBN | 0671014501 |
In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all.
AN ANGEL OF MERCY
In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a private-duty nurse. Selfless and good-natured,...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0142406937 |
Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose herself there for hours with a cappuccino and her sketchbook, in which she creates a paper world she calls...
| Author | Sam Enthoven |
| ISBN | 1595141146 |
Jack’s best mate, Charlie, has always been effortlessly cool. When Charlie wakes up one day and finds a mysterious, moving black tattoo on his back, it’s a clear sign that he’s even cooler than Jack thought. To top it off, Charlie has got super powers also.
Or does he?
Jack soon...
The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
| Author | Gordon Marino |
| ISBN | 0062435981 |
“When it comes to living, there’s no getting out alive. But books can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is most important about being human before we perish. In The Existentialist’s Survival Guide, Marino has produced an honest and moving book of self-help for readers generally...
The Conspiracy Book: A Chronological Journey through Secret Societies and Hidden Histories
| Author | John Michael Greer |
| ISBN | 1454930047 |
Scholar of the occult and secret histories, John Michael Greer shines a light on 100 mysterious conspiracies and hidden societies throughout history, from Ancient Greece to the modern era.
The Freemasons. The Satanic Hell-Fire Club. The Illuminati. This fascinating book delves into...
| Author | Marcus Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 0385747047 |
THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery...
Introducing the first novel in the pulse-pounding Sacramento series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose.
There is a serial killer on the loose, preying on vulnerable women. The only identifiable mark the killer leaves are letters—sometimes one, sometimes two—all carved...
| Author | Lorena Alvarez Gomez |
| ISBN | 1910620130 |
Every night, tiny stars appear out of the darkness in little Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning brings them back to life in the whimsical drawings. When a mysterious new girl appears at school, Sandy's drawings are...
