If you liked
Books like Speaker for the Dead
Loved Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from graphic novels, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Watchmen
Flawed, ageing superheroes in an alternate Cold War; the graphic novel that proved comics could be literature.
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Persepolis
A girl grows up during and after the Iranian revolution; a witty, moving graphic memoir.
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3
The Dark Knight Returns
An older, harder Batman returns to a broken city; the book that darkened the superhero forever.
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Kristy's Great Idea
Follows the adventures of Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club as they deal with crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents who do not always tell the truth. Fo
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The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat (1985) is a vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the second in her Vampire Chronicles, following Interview with the Vampire (1976). The story is told from the point of view o
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The Sandman
The Lord of Dreams across myth, history and the modern world; the comic that expanded what the medium could do.
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The Eye of the World
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age
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Small Gods
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him
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The Last Straw
Greg has to try and explain to his dad why he should not go to military school and that is just one of his problems he has to try and impress a girl solve a sweet mystery and try to get kicked off the
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The X-Files
A novel based on the Emmy Award-winning television series created by Chris Carter.When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agent