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David Mitchell · 2014 · UK · literary fiction · fantasy
★ 3.85 Goodreads · 102,157 ratings

A woman with psychic visions discovers she is at the centre of a war between immortals that spans centuries.

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12 books for readers of The Bone Clocks

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell · 2004 · UK 99% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 276,368 ratings
shares: genre blending, allusive, ambitious · epic, experimental

Six nested stories spanning centuries, from a nineteenth-century Pacific voyage to a post-apocalyptic future and back again, reveal how lives echo across time.

Ghostwritten

David Mitchell · 1999 · UK 98% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 33,410 ratings
shares: genre blending, ambitious, multiple narrators, ensemble · epic, experimental

Nine loosely connected stories spanning the globe, linked by chance encounters and the invisible threads between strangers.

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr · 2021 · US 92% match ★ 4.24 Goodreads · 286,916 ratings
shares: climate, ambitious · epic, earnest

An ancient Greek tale of a shepherd's journey to a city in the clouds links an orphan girl and a conscripted boy at the siege of Constantinople in 1453, an old man and a troubled teenager in present-day Idaho, and a girl alone on a spaceship bound for a distant planet.

The Sandman

Neil Gaiman · 1989 · UK 90% match ★ 4.46 Goodreads
shares: allusive, ambitious · epic, speculative

A saga spanning millennia and told through dreams: Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, is imprisoned for seventy years, escapes and must rebuild his kingdom and come to terms with what he is.

To Paradise

Hanya Yanagihara · 2022 · US 90% match ★ 3.72 Goodreads · 58,163 ratings
shares: ambitious, sprawling, multiple narrators · epic, experimental

Three interconnected novellas spanning 1893, 1993, and 2093 New York, each reimagining a version of paradise and the human need to construct utopia.

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice · 1976 · US 88% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 674,519 ratings
Book 1 of 13 in The Vampire Chronicles
shares: immortal · earnest, speculative

In a San Francisco room, a vampire tells a young reporter his story, from his making on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation to his years with Lestat and the child vampire Claudia.

The Stand

Stephen King · 1978 · US 88% match ★ 4.35 Goodreads · 867,344 ratings
shares: supernatural, sprawling · epic, earnest

A superflu kills most of humanity, and the survivors are drawn into a final battle between good and evil across a devastated America.

The Overstory

Richard Powers · 2018 · US 87% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 210,800 ratings
shares: ambitious, multiple narrators, ensemble · epic, earnest

Nine Americans, among them an artist whose family has photographed the same chestnut tree for generations and a scientist who discovers that trees communicate, are drawn together by trees and into a last stand to save the old-growth forests.

Swan Song

Robert McCammon · 1987 · US 87% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 79,399 ratings
shares: supernatural, sprawling · epic, earnest

After a nuclear war leaves America a frozen wasteland, a girl called Swan who can make things grow, a former wrestler named Josh and a homeless woman known as Sister cross the ruins, hunted by an ancient evil that wants the world to stay dead.

Floating Dragon

Peter Straub · 1983 · US 86% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 12,946 ratings
shares: supernatural, sprawling, ensemble · intricate plot, earnest

A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.

Monica

Daniel Clowes · 2023 · US 86% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 5,980 ratings
shares: genre blending · experimental, serious

A woman assembles the story of her mother through cults, horror comics, war stories, and genre experiments, searching for a self Clowes keeps rearranging.

The Shining

Stephen King · 1977 · US 86% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 1,780,439 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Shining
shares: supernatural · earnest, speculative

A family moves into a haunted hotel for the winter, and the building's malevolence feeds on a father's alcoholism and a son's psychic gift.