Read-alikes for Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, or Kurt Vonnegut

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• Read-alikes for Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, or Kurt Vonnegut

The Forever War 
By Joe Haldeman
SCIFI HALDEMAN Forever #1
This award winning book features a reluctant hero,Captain Mandella, insights into human behavior, anti-war sentiments and a similar moral stance to many of Card’s books. Captain Mandella must perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive before returning back home to an aging Earth. 




Blue Girl
By Charles DeLint
YA F DELINT  
DeLint, like Gaiman’s protagonists, live in a world resembling ours but contain differences that make the line between our world and the fantasy world just a bit blurry.  





Bellwether
By Connie Willis
SCIFI WILLIS  
If the reason you like Vonnegut is his sarcasm, poking fun at contemporary culture and satire you might enjoy Bellwether, the story of a sociologist who studies fads and a chaos theorist who are brought together when an unusual package is misdelivered.>

Catch 22

By Joseph Heller
F HELLER
Heller's Catch 22 is classic satire on the insanity of war. Heller and Vonnegut write with similar wit and sarcasm.

Well-written Genre Blending Novels

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• Genre blending books
• Read-alikes for Jasper Fforde or Neil Gaiman

The Fifth Elephant
By Terry Pratchett
SCIFI PRATCHET
Satirical SCIFI/Fantasy novels, Pratchett’s Discworld series has more than 30 books which don’t really need to be read in order. A new visit to the satiric Discworld involves a search for the missing elephant from the five who support Discworld on their backs, as a stolen scone, a dwarf coronation, and ruby tights get into the act.

Bellwether
By Connie Willis
SCIFI WILLIS
Sandra Foster, a statistician trying to predict fads and trends, meets Bennett O'Reilly, a chaos theory scientist, who may provide her with the key.

Ella Minnow Pea
By Mark Dunn
F DUNN
Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the government progressively bans letters from the alphabet.

His Majesty’s Dragon
By Naomi Novik
SCIFI NOVIK
The Temeraire series is a blend of Historical Fiction and Fantasy. When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Storm Front
By Jim Butcher
SCIFI BUTCHER
The Dresden Files series is a Mystery detective story set in a Fantasy world. A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts.