The Prize in the Game
10 best books like The Prize in the Game (Jo Walton): They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Unfettered, Train Dreams, Gods of Risk, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, The Face in the Frost, Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, Miranda and Caliban, Mrs. Miniver, Collateral Damage
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
| Author | Horace McCoy |
Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? contains one of the bleakest lines in all of literature. It’s where Gloria, who dances in the marathon dance, asks without a trace of irony or black humor, ”Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying...
Unfettered
| Author | Shawn Speakman |
| ISBN | 0984713638 |
In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both.
Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hogdkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author...
Train Dreams
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 1250007658 |
Gods of Risk
| Author | James S.A. Corey |
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
| Author | C.A. Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0316449458 |
My name's Griz. My childhood...
The Face in the Frost
| Author | John Bellairs |
Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit
| Author | Amy Stewart |
| ISBN | 1328736512 |
After a year on the job, New Jersey's first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women,...
Miranda and Caliban
| Author | Jacqueline Carey |
| Author | Jan Struther |
| ISBN | 0156631407 |
Collateral Damage
| Author | David Mack |
| ISBN | 1982113588 |
The past returns to haunt Captain Jean-Luc Picard—a crime he thought long buried has been exposed, and he must return...
The Vital Abyss
| Author | James S.A. Corey |
| ISBN | 0316217565 |
The Churn
| Author | James S.A. Corey |
| ISBN | 1478929693 |
Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Amos Burton was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the authorities got to you first.
Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of the Expanse, The Churn...
False Knees: An Illustrated Guide to Animal Behavior
| Author | Joshua Barkman |
That Ain’t Witchcraft
| Author | Seanan McGuire |
1. A place where two roads cross.
2. A place where bargains can be made.
3. See also “places to avoid.”
Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings,...
Strange Dogs
| Author | James S.A. Corey |
“There are things I didn’t see before... ...there are other things here.”
Holy shit. This changes things.
I love that we get these short stories and novellas between the main Expanse novels. If the novels are considered big, pulpy action movies...
Atlanta Burns
| Author | Chuck Wendig |
| ISBN | 1477827102 |
Everyone knows that. And that’s kinda how she likes it—until the day Atlanta is drawn into a battle against two groups of bullies and saves a pair of new, unexpected friends. But actions have consequences, and when another teen turns up dead—by an...
The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South
| Author | Robin Gaby Fisher |
| ISBN | 0312595395 |
The White House Boys: An American Tragedy
| Author | Roger Dean Kiser |