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24 alternatives to Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

An epic of the violence and depravity of Manifest Destiny

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Youngblood▲71

   The moral complexity of war & its psychological toll

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Abomination▲59

   "Game of Thrones by way of H.P. Lovecraft"

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Red Cavalry▲54

   Brutal, beautiful, haunting.

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   The Bone Clocks▲54

   Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell's latest epic

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Into the Brambles▲60

   Dark fantasy based on modernized classical myth

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Empire of the Summer Moon▲66

   Fascinating, vivid, and complex story of the "Old West"

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

   The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

   2017 · its alternatives →

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   Kobold's Guide to Worldbuilding▲56

   Essays on the creation of worlds, from geology to politics

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   The Book of Disquiet▲61

   A haunting mosaic of dreams

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Black Swan▲80

    The impact of the highly improbable

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    In Praise of Shadows▲55

    Musings on Eastern aesthetic, Zen philosophy, & geopsyche

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War▲62

    Describes the western world that exploded into The Great War

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning▲56

    A new interpretation of Hitler's frightening worldview

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Mountain Shadow▲54

    Sequel to Shantaram

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Radiance▲79

    A decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery!

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Nightfall▲57

    The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Count of Monte Cristo▲69

    "On what slender threads do life and fortune hang"

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Gutshot: Stories▲128

    Isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark edges

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Night at the Fiestas▲65

    Living in a landscape shaped by love, loss and violence

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1)▲87

    Heroic fantasy by Patrick Rothfuss

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Wheel Of Time (series)▲65

    Mazing epic fantasy series by Robert Jordan

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    All the Light We Cannot See▲80

    WWII fiction from both French and German point of view

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Morning Short: "In The Home Stretch" By Robert Frost▲53

    An amazing narrative poem about the relativity of time

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Flight of the Silvers▲63

    A world of time travel and disruption.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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