The Throne of Bones

10 best books like The Throne of Bones (Brian McNaughton): Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, The Sword of Kaigen, The Ring of Solomon, Between Two Fires, Those Across the River, The Writer's Desk, Gate of Ivrel, Aching God, I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships, The Lesser Dead

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

Author	John Joseph Adams
ISBN	1597801054

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands.

From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world,...

The Sword of Kaigen

Author

M.L. Wang

A mother struggling to repress her violent past,
A son struggling to grasp his violent future,
A father blind to the danger that threatens them all.

When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other...

The Ring of Solomon

Author	Jonathan Stroud
ISBN	0307738612

It is 950 B.C.E., and King Solomon rules Jerusalem with a steely hand; a hand on which gleams a magic ring of immense and unforgiving power. Solomon has just begun work on his marvelous temple, charging Khaba, a formidable magician in his royal court, to oversee its construction. The workforce is an ill-behaved...

Between Two Fires

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...

Those Across the River

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...

The Writer's Desk

Author	Jill Krementz
ISBN	0679450149

This book was given to me as a gift by Bill Marshall in August 2014. It contains photos of the workspaces of 56 writers and accompanies them with snippets taken from the writers' discussions of their process as published in The Paris Review. Among these writers is the late John Updike (1932-2009), who...

Gate of Ivrel

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0886772575

Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space Gates of a vanished but not forgotten alien race. In their time, long before the rise of the native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds—not from villainy but from folly, from tampering with the strands that held a universe together.

Now...

Aching God

Author	Mike Shel
ISBN	1985746158

“Closer, mortal. You are here, finally, to feed the Aching God…”

The days of adventure are passed for Auric Manteo. Retired to the countryside with his scars and riches, he no longer delves into forbidden ruins seeking dark wisdom and treasure. That is, until old nightmares begin plaguing...

I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships

Author

Michael S. Sorensen

+ 2018 IPA Book Award Winner What if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life? In this 3-hour, conversational read, you’ll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable (yet surprisingly little-known) communication...

The Lesser Dead

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...

The Rust Maidens

Author	Gwendolyn Kiste
ISBN	1947654446

Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street.

It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile...