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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 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Abomination▲59
"Game of Thrones by way of H.P. Lovecraft"
2015 · inkshares.com · its alternatives →
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Red Cavalry▲54
Brutal, beautiful, haunting.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Bone Clocks▲54
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell's latest epic
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Into the Brambles▲60
Dark fantasy based on modernized classical myth
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Empire of the Summer Moon▲66
Fascinating, vivid, and complex story of the "Old West"
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Dark Matter of the Mind▲67
The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Kobold's Guide to Worldbuilding▲56
Essays on the creation of worlds, from geology to politics
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Book of Disquiet▲61
A haunting mosaic of dreams
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Black Swan▲80
The impact of the highly improbable
2015 · amazon.com · 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 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning▲56
A new interpretation of Hitler's frightening worldview
2015 · bookshop.org · its alternatives →
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The Mountain Shadow▲54
Sequel to Shantaram
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Radiance▲79
A decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery!
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Nightfall▲57
The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Count of Monte Cristo▲69
"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang"
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
Gutshot: Stories▲128
Isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark edges
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Night at the Fiestas▲65
Living in a landscape shaped by love, loss and violence
2015 · goodreads.com · its alternatives →
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1)▲87
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2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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The Wheel Of Time (series)▲65
Mazing epic fantasy series by Robert Jordan
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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All the Light We Cannot See▲80
WWII fiction from both French and German point of view
2015 · amazon.com · 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 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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The Flight of the Silvers▲63
A world of time travel and disruption.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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