The Droughtlanders
10 best books like The Droughtlanders (Carrie Mac): Hild, Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike, Skim, The Adventures of Augie March, Cari Mora, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, When Everything Feels Like the Movies, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World, The Clay Girl
| Author | Nicola Griffith |
| ISBN | 0374280878 |
Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods’ priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood,...
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike
| Author | Kelly Sue DeConnick |
| ISBN | 1607069628 |
Kelly Sue DeConnick (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) and Emma Rios (Dr. Strange, Osborn) present the collected opening arc of their surprise-hit series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke...
| Author | Mariko Tamaki |
| ISBN | 0888997531 |
Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensitive graphic novel of the highest literary and artistic quality, by and about young women.
"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls'...
| Author | Saul Bellow |
| ISBN | 0143039571 |
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.” It’s the “Call me Ishmael” of mid-20th-century American...
| Author | Thomas Harris |
| ISBN | 1538750147 |
From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed, and the consequences of dark obsession.
Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1563898586 |
London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions.
In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time...
| Author | Chester Brown |
| ISBN | 1894937899 |
"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -Time
Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for...
When Everything Feels Like the Movies
| Author | Raziel Reid |
| ISBN | 1551525747 |
School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed; he's...
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World
| Author | Ziya Tong |
| ISBN | 0735235562 |
From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.
Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality.
We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that...
| Author | Heather Tucker |
| ISBN | 1770413030 |
Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes.
Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary, who is purported to eat little girls...
