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A foul-mouthed, Cheeto-loving crow navigates the zombie apocalypse in a hilarious and surprisingly moving love letter to humanity's beautiful mess. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Hollow Kingdom.
- chaotic
- absurd
- gritty
- bizarrely uplifting
- 01
Chimera
Mira Grant
A tense, apocalyptic fight for survival where the greatest threat might be the engineered nature within.
- 02
The rest of us just live here
Patrick Ness
A wry, tender love letter to the background characters of every epic fantasy, proving that just surviving high school is heroic enough.
- 03
The Gone-Away World
Nick Harkaway · 2009
A hyper-verbal, martial-arts-infused apocalyptic joyride that hides a profoundly beating heart beneath its chaotic exterior.
- 04
Feed
Mira Grant
A razor-sharp, adrenaline-fueled dive into a world where the truth is just as deadly as the infected.
- 05
The Blacktongue Thief
Christopher Buehlman
A foul-mouthed, fast-paced romp through a brutal world, guided by a rogue who is just as likely to steal your coin purse as he is to win your heart.
- 06
California bones
Greg Van Eekhout
A gritty, sun-baked magical heist where a ragtag crew consumes the bones of mythical creatures to steal back their future.
- 07
Wishtree
Katherine Applegate
A gentle, wise fable told from the perspective of an ancient oak tree who witnesses the quiet struggles and beautiful resilience of a changing neighborhood.
- 08
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
A deeply unsettling descent into backwoods terror, anchored by a fiercely relatable narrator and her very good dog.
- 09
John Dies at the End
David Wong · 2009
A chaotic descent into cosmic horror where the only thing scarier than the interdimensional monsters is the protagonists' sheer incompetence.
- 10
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
A lush, defiant love letter to the magic of storytelling and the hidden thresholds that lead us to where we belong.
- 11
The Broken Kingdoms
N. K. Jemisin
A sensory, mythic mystery where the divine and the mortal bleed together in the shadows of a fallen city.
- 12
Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher
A darkly pragmatic fairy tale where a reluctant heroine and her misfit companions dismantle a happily-ever-after gone wrong.
