Fantasy · Similar reads
Books like Vicious
Vicious by V.E. Schwab is about moral ambiguity and villainy, obsession and rivalry, power and its costs. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
Read the summary → - American Gods
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
American Gods opens with Shadow Moon, a man released from prison days early because his wife has died in a car accident.
Read the summary → - The Blade Itself
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Joe Abercrombie · Fantasy
The Blade Itself is the first book of the First Law trilogy, a grimdark fantasy that opened with a deliberate challenge to the genre's conventions: the barbarian is not particularly heroic, the noble knight is not particularly noble, and the crippled torturer employed by the Inquisition is probably the most interesting person in the room.
Read the summary → - The Power of Myth
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Joseph Campbell · Philosophy
The Power of Myth is the transcript of six hours of conversations between Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers, filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in 1985 and 1986 and broadcast on PBS in 1988, shortly after Campbell's death.
Read the summary → - A Court of Mist and Fury
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.
Read the summary → - A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
Feyre Archeron is nineteen, hunting in winter to feed her family, when she kills a wolf in the forest and is taken by a creature from Prythian — the land of the fae — as payment for a life.
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