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10 best books like The Sacred Era (Yoshio Aramaki): Wanderers, The City in the Middle of the Night, The Illustrated Man, The Word for World is Forest, The Story of Hong Gildong, The Stone Book Quartet, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, The Passion According to G.H., The Falling Woman, Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams

Wanderers
AuthorChuck Wendig
A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope.

Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she...
The City in the Middle of the Night
AuthorCharlie Jane Anders
ISBN0765379961
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."

Set on a planet that has fully definitive, never-changing zones of day and night, with ensuing extreme climates of endless, frigid darkness and blinding, relentless light, humankind...
The Illustrated Man
AuthorRay Bradbury
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction,...
The Word for World is Forest
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning...
The Story of Hong Gildong
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0143107690
The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart, Robin Hood, it has been adapted into countless movies, television shows, novels and comics. Its memorable lines are known to virtually every Korean by heart. Until now, this...
The Stone Book Quartet
AuthorAlan Garner
The four books which make up this volume were first published individually. "As the stories grow into one story, so one's awareness of the emblems and symbols deepens! Garner binds the reader to him and he shows us the author working with language to make his book as his characters worked with stone and...
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
AuthorPu Songling
ISBN0140447407
The title, and the fact that this is a Penguin classic, attracted me. I really, really enjoyed this read. The stories were quite short, some only a paragraph in length, and the longest ones being perhaps 4-5 pages. And they were strange indeed, strange is definitely an understatement. They were very...
The Passion According to G.H.
AuthorClarice Lispector
ISBN0816617120
Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situation—a woman at home, alone—into an amphitheater...
The Falling Woman
AuthorPat Murphy
ISBN0312854064
Elizabeth Waters, an archaeologist who abandoned her husband and daughter years ago to pursue her career, can see the shadows of the past. It's a gift she keeps secret from her colleagues and students, one that often leads her to incredible archaeological discoveries and the realization that she might...
Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams
AuthorC.L. Moore
ISBN0575074175
Jirel of Joiry, the first of the great female warriors, the beautiful commander of the strongest fortress in the kingdom, would face any danger to defend her beloved country. She wielded her bright sword against mighty armies, the sinister magic of evil sorcerers and fearsome castles guarded by the...
Compulsory Games
AuthorRobert Aickman
ISBN1681371898
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described “strange stories” remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of...
The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN1931520747
Joan Aiken's stories captivated readers for fifty years. They're funny, smart, gentle, and occasionally very, very scary. The stories in The Monkey's Wedding are collected here for the very first time and include six never before published, as well as two previously published under the pseudonym...
Unclay
AuthorT.F. Powys
In UNCLAY, the author's final masterpiece, John Death arrives in the obscure Dorset village of Little Dodder with instructions to ‘unclay’ two of its inhabitants. Unfortunately for him, Death loses the divine chit bearing the names of the doomed pair, and is obliged to stay in Little Dodder until...
A Cidade Sitiada
AuthorClarice Lispector
ISBN8532508731
You can find the 'newer' cover edition with the same ISBN here.

A simplória personagem Lucrécia, de 'A cidade sitiada', docemente desprovida de raciocínio e/ou de consciência, é alma gêmea de Macabéa, que muitos já viram na versão cinematográfica 'A hora da estrela'. Lucrécia...
Viata si opiniile lui Zacharias Lichter
AuthorMatei Călinescu
The best thing about this incredible book is the translation by the author’s widow, Adriana Calinescu, and the great German-to-English translator Breon Mitchell. The translation is pitch perfect, keeping the wildness under control while making the dryness enjoyable. Short chapters get across...
Hell Hound
AuthorKen Greenhall
ISBN0890833036
"What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? ... What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?"

Baxter is a sociopathic bull terrier who is on the hunt for his perfect...
The Exile
AuthorWilliam Kotzwinkle
ISBN1569247285
Second read by Kotzwinkle. He continues to impress me in a sort of understated fashion. Much like Fata Morgana, this one had occult/magic undertones, though much subtler. On the flip side, the twisted ending here was much stronger. The story is a take of hallucinative disassociation/metempsychosis/split...
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