Andrzej Sapkowski 1995
- What it is
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War lived from the inside · it tells it with no filter
- Genre
- Fantasy
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to Time of Contempt
Coming from Time of Contempt? Start with Poppy War, The Blade Itself, Gardens of the Moon. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
7 books
Dark and war from the inside
Poppy War
R. F. Kuang 2018
Like yours: war from the inside · you won't want to come back
The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie 2001
Like yours: war from the inside · pitch-black comedy
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson 1999
Like yours: war from the inside · full of big ideas
The Black Company
Glen Cook 1984
Like yours: war from the inside · you won't want to come back
Catch-22
Joseph Heller 1904
In common with yours: war from the inside · funny, and it bites
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell 1992
Like yours: war from the inside · love hurts sometimes
Winter King
Bernard Cornwell 1995
In common with yours: war from the inside · love in the middle of danger
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Dark and unflinching
Prince of Thorns
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It tells it with no filter · no clean hands here
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Alden Bell 2010
It tells it with no filter, but in horror
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica 2015
It tells it with no filter, but in science fiction
Parable Of The Sower
Octavia E. Butler 1993
It tells it straight, but in science fiction
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler 1979
It tells it with no filter, but in science fiction
Feed
Seanan McGuire 2010
It tells it straight, but in science fiction
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh 2019
It tells it with no filter, but in literary fiction
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis 1991
It tells it with no filter, but in literary fiction
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn 2007
It tells it with no filter, but in a mystery
3 books
War from the inside and unflinching
Gates of fire
Steven Pressfield 1998
Like yours: war from the inside · it leaves you shaken
Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker 2018
Like yours: war from the inside · it leaves you shaken
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini 2004
In common with yours: war from the inside · it leaves you shaken
14 books · Alike in just one
Only dark
Blood of Elves
Andrzej Sapkowski 1995
You won't want to come back · one more chapter, then another
This Immortal
Roger Zelazny 1967
It leaves you thinking, but in science fiction
The Butcher’s Masquerade
Matt Dinniman 2022
Sharp and very funny · one more chapter, then another
Passage
Justin Cronin 2010
You won't want to come back, but in science fiction
A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin 1998
You won't want to come back · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Chain-gang All-stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023
It tells it with no filter, but in science fiction
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien 1972
Just as melancholic and adventurous, but more wondrous and epic
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood 2002
It stirs you up inside, but in science fiction
First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North 2014
Full of big ideas · travelling in time
The girl with all the gifts
Mike Carey 2014
It tells it with no filter, but in horror
Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter 2017
Fierce and defiant · it leaves you shaken
7 books · Alike in just one
Only war from the inside
Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon 2023
In common with yours: war from the inside · it raises the temperature
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson 2010
Like yours: war from the inside · you won't want to come back
Caliban's War
James S. A. Corey 2012
Like yours: war from the inside · the truth comes out bit by bit
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut 1969
Like yours: war from the inside · nobody is entirely good
2034
Elliot Ackerman 2021
Like yours: war from the inside · nothing is quite what it seems
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer 2008
In common with yours: war from the inside · funny and sad at once
2 books · Alike in just one
Only unflinching
Use of Weapons
Iain Banks 1990
It tells it straight, but in science fiction
Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson 2020
Fierce and defiant, but in science fiction
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