The Definitive Guide To Superhero Novels
Explore the ultimate list of superhero novels in our definitive guide! Discover must-read books, from classic comics to modern tales, perfect for fans of all things heroic and action-packed.
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Playing for Keeps
by Mur Lafferty
In a world where the superheroes have the best gifts, but are real jerks, Keepsie Branson has the power to prevent anything in her possession from being stolen ... not enough to make a difference, or so she thinks.
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The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE. From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. "A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, and Call it Sleep." --The New York Times Magazine "One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings it to a story worth telling." --Time
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Those Who Walk in Darkness
by John Ridley
Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark writes her own rules. Usually it gets her in trouble. On her first day with the L.A.P.D.'s elite Mtac squad, Soledad takes down an outlawed super-powered freak with a weapon she designed herself-a definite violation. Her love life is no less chaotic. It's hard to find a decent guy with nothing to hide. But there's not much room in Soledad's life for romance when a cop-killer is on the loose. The "baddest" freak of all, this one can control people's minds and make them commit anything he wants... including murder.
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Dark Mirror
by Marjorie M. Liu
An original novel based on Marvel Comics' popular superhero team. Jean Grey discovers she's been stripped of her telekinetic powers and is trapped in someone else's body. So are Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawler--their minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers. Who is behind this, and for what purpose? Original.
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Evil Genius
by Catherine Jinks
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
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Batman
by Greg Rucka
With Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou is one of the best-known philosophers alive today.
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From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain
by Minister Faust
An outlandish, outrageous tour de force by the most innovative prose stylist in the field. -Robert J. Sawyer, author of Hominids They're Earth's mightiest superteam-and dysfunctional as hell. OMNIPOTENT MAN-a body with the density of steel, and a brain to match THE FLYING SQUIRREL-aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by night IRON LASS-mythology's greatest warrior-but the world might be safer if she had a husband X-MAN-formerly of the League of Angry Blackmen . . . but not formerly enough THE BROTHERFLY-radioactively fly POWER GRRRL-perpetually deciding between fighting crime or promoting her latest album, clothing line, or sex scandal Having finally defeated all archenemies, the members of the Fantastic Order of Justice are reduced to engaging in toxic office politics that could very well lead to a superpowered civil war. Only one woman can save them from themselves: Dr. Eva Brain-Silverman, aka Dr. Brain, the world's leading therapist for the extraordinarily abled. Faust has pretty much invented his own genre. He's totally original, full of surprises. -Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon Samuel Delany, Harlan Ellison, and Ishmael Reed all rolled into one. Faust's writing is biting, insightful, and hugely entertaining. -Ernest Dickerson, director
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Soon I Will be Invincible
by Austin Grossman
Doctor Impossible—evil genius, would-be world conqueror—languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could with his life. After all, he's lost every battle he's ever fought. But this prison won't hold him forever. Fatale—half woman, half high-tech warrior—used to be an unemployed cyborg. Now, she's a rookie member of the world's most famous super-team, the Champions. But being a superhero is not all flying cars and planets in peril—she learns that in the locker rooms and dive bars of superherodom, the men and women (even mutants) behind the masks are as human as anyone. Soon I Will Be Invincible is a wildly entertaining first novel, brimming with attitude and humor—an emotionally resonant look at good and evil, love and loss, power and glory.
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