Books Like The Books of Babel
On his honeymoon, a schoolteacher loses his wife in the crowds at the foot of the colossal Tower of Babel. He climbs ring after ring to find her.
If you liked The Books of Babel, read:
The Engineer Trilogy
Ieuan Vaatzes, an engineer exiled for one small improvement to a design, turns his skill with machines into a weapon of revenge against the city that cast him out.
The Chathrand Voyage
Aboard a six-hundred-year-old ship carrying a peace mission, a tarboy, a young bride and a crew of tiny ixchel are caught in a plot to restart a war.
The Long Price Quartet
Poets in the Khaiem cities bind ideas into captive spirits that guarantee their wealth and their safety. Two men's rivalry over one of them reshapes an empire across a lifetime.
The Last Unicorn
A unicorn learns she may be the last of her kind and sets out to find what became of the others. A hapless magician and a hard-bitten cook go with her.
Shadows of the Apt
Kinden take traits from insect totems such as beetles, spiders and wasps. An aging scholar tries to warn the Lowlands that the Wasp Empire is coming.
Featured pick
Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the real reason King Leonidas and his three hundred died at Thermopylae. Sixty-two years later the gods send a Spartan boy of the agoge to kill it. The book takes lessons from tragedy and the cost of sacrifice, as is the Greek way.