The Silver Stallion

8 best books like The Silver Stallion (James Branch Cabell): The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, Damned, The Last Battle, Blindsight, The Kalevala, The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two, The Book of Lost Tales, Part One

The Silver Chair
AuthorC.S. Lewis
Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch.

NARNIA...where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans, where a prince is put under an evil spell...and where the adventure begins.

Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange...
The Horse and His Boy
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0439861365
“Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.”



This felt as if I was reading a folktale about a horse and a boy who wander around and seek their new adventure. Yet the humor in this book is abundant, even though the...
Damned
AuthorChuck Palahniuk
ISBN0385671105
October 2011

Look out, Chuck Palahniuk fans! It's a Chuck Palahniuk book! Chuck Palahniuk's Damned, the newest Chuck Palahniuk book (by Chuck Palahniuk!) is classic Chuck Palahniuk, a wonderful addition to Chuck Palahniuk's collection of Chuck Palahniuk books, and a must-read for Chuck...
The Last Battle
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0007202326
I think this is the first book I've ever hated. And that list is pretty short. As a child, it really distressed me - I didn't understand much of it, and it confused me why its tone was so very different from the other Narnia books. Then, when I reread it a few years ago, it just pissed me off. The message about...
Blindsight
AuthorPeter Watts
ISBN0765312182
It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want...
The Kalevala
AuthorElias Lönnrot


When Elias Lönnrot was born in 1802, Finland was a province of Sweden; by the time he came to compile the Kalevala in the 1830s and 1840s, it was part of the Russian Empire. ‘Finnishness’ was (and had been since the twelfth century) little more than a shared idea, and sometimes a dangerous...
The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
The Book of Lost Tales 2 (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 2)
viii, 391 pp. "The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916, when he was twenty-five years old, and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception...
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0345375211
The Book of Lost Tales 1 stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. Embedded in English legend and English association, they were set in the narratve frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or Ælfwine) to Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle,...
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