The Blue Mirror
10 best books like The Blue Mirror (Kathe Koja): Supermarket, Get Well Soon, Between Two Fires, Those Across the River, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge, The Only Child, The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, The Burn Palace
The stunning debut novel from one of the most creative artists of our generation, Bobby Hall, a.k.a. Logic.
“Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose that is just as fierce and moving as his lyrics. Supermarket is like Naked Lunch meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—if...
| 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 | Christopher Buehlman |
| ISBN | 1937007863 |
His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” (California Literary Review), “graceful [and] horrific” (Patricia Briggs). Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age—one of temptation and corruption, of war in...
| Author | Christopher Buehlman |
| ISBN | 0441020674 |
Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything...
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to utopian thinking.
Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has...
| Author | Paul M. Sammon |
| ISBN | 0312857861 |
Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction.
Reviewers called Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror "a forceful anthology-cum-manifesto of splatterpunk [that] makes a strong case for splatterpunk...
| Author | Andrew Pyper |
| ISBN | 1476755213 |
The #1 internationally bestselling author of The Demonologist radically reimagines the origins of gothic literature’s founding masterpieces—Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula—in a contemporary novel driven by relentless suspense and surprising emotion....
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...
Disappearance at Devil's Rock
| Author | Paul Tremblay |
| ISBN | 0062363263 |
A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts.
Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating...
| Author | Stephen Dobyns |
| ISBN | 0399160876 |
The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town. It’s a place where most of the population will likely die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big entertainment on weekends is the inevitable fight at the local bar....
| Author | Stephen Dobyns |
| ISBN | 0140273913 |
A literary chameleon, Stephen Dobyns is as well known for his poetry as he his for his taut and chilling mysteries. The two disciplines collide in The Church of Dead Girls, a lyrical novel that inspired Stephen King to comment, "If ever there was a tale for a moonless night, a high wind and a creaking floor,...
| Author | Stephen Dobyns |
| ISBN | 0312975228 |
Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from welcome. He's also determined to do something about...
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...
The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 1524708089 |
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment."
The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh...
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 | Christopher Buehlman |
| ISBN | 0425272613 |
The secret is, vampires are real and I am one.
The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry—
New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent...
| Author | Andrew Pyper |
| ISBN | 1476755116 |
Danny Orchard wrote a bestselling memoir about his near-death experience in a fire that claimed the life of his twin sister, Ashleigh, but despite the resulting fame and fortune he’s never been able to enjoy his second chance at life. Ash won’t let him.
In life, Danny’s charming and magnetic...
