Books like Lungbarrow (Doctor Who: The New Adventures) (New Adventures) by Marc Platt

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

When ordinary Londoner Richard Mayhew rescues a bleeding stranger, he is thrust into London Below, a shadowy realm of monsters, angels, and underground society that forces him to fight for survival before he can return home.

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

A covert scientific team ventures into the isolated Area X, a reclaimed landscape rife with anomalies and unknown life. As discoveries deepen, hidden motives and secrets threaten to unravel the expedition and alter humanity’s understanding of nature.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

In the grim, alchemical city of New Crobuzon, scientist Isaac Underwood faces a half-bird, half-human Garuda and a ravenous caterpillar that threatens the entire metropolis.

Inside a secret library run by a god‑like patriarch, orphaned apprentices must battle for control of humanity’s fate when their master disappears.

The first book in Gene Wolfe’s *The Book of the New Sun* follows Severian, a young torturer’s apprentice who, after showing mercy, is exiled from the city of Nessus on the world Urth and embarks on a fateful journey.

A crew of remade prisoners aboard a massive ship is diverted to a floating city of pirate hulls when pirates strike, forcing them to navigate a bizarre, oppressive society and uncover a deadly secret beneath the waves.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

A rural justice battle against illegal immigration and race relations in North Carolina

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Margaret Maron's mystery, Slow Dollar, follows fictional judge Deborah Knott as she navigates a North Carolina case that turns to the intrigue of a circus.

Uncommon Clay follows Deborah Knott, a woman judge in North Carolina, as she delves into the pottery scene while navigating mystery and detective work.

Doctor Who: Logopolis brings the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) to Earth and the planet Logopolis to fix a broken chameleon circuit, only to clash with the Master and face a looming chaos that threatens both worlds.

In Margaret Maron's atmospheric thriller 'Storm Track,' Judge Deborah Knott faces a chilling murder mystery amid an impending North Carolina hurricane, blending legal intrigue with atmospheric suspense.

In a quiet village, the Doctor and Martha investigate an ancient well rumored to hide a legendary treasure. Their curiosity awakens an alien menace, turning the search into a desperate fight for survival.

Lieutenant Sigrid Harald investigates the murder of a relic of New York's Gilded Age in this atmospheric police procedural mystery set in Gramercy Park.

After his mother dies, 12‑year‑old David escapes into the stories that once comforted him, only for myth and war to collide in a world where a Crooked Man and a faded king rule over wolves and hidden secrets.