Metaphysical / philosophical fiction Books

The hugely anticipated final volume of The Wars of Light and Shadow brings this widely acclaimed, masterful epic fantasy series to its powerful, earth-shattering close. ‘It ought to be illegal for one person to have so much talent’ STEPHEN...

Heart-stopping thriller from the master of suspense. Bad things are starting to happen at the Pendleton, an eerie building with a tragic past. The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill, a palace built in the late 19th century as a tycoon’s dream...

Plato, Buddha, Christ--what brings these men to the far future to witness the end of the world?Ten billion days—that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights—that is how far...

Praise for the gypt sequence:"With Little, Big, Crowley established himself as America's greatest living writer of fantasy. gypt confirms that he is one of our finest living writers, period." -Michael Dirda"A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring...

The Initiate presents the unfolding story of the fascinating and mysterious personality known as Justin Moreward Haig. The story is of absorbing interest to students of the spiritual path because they learn that Mahatmas and Masters do not live in...

Welcome to Dark Factory! You may experience strobe effects, Y reality, DJ beats, love, sex, betrayal, triple shot espresso, broken bones, broken dreams, ecstasy, self-knowledge, and the void. Dark Factory is a dance club: three floors of DJs, drinks, and...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEAn incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longingIn fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential magnitude, pervasive yearning, and the creative impulse...

As the story moves into the last book of the trilogy, we know that Chaldee's kingdom has been destroyed, meaning she must seek a new homeland, but the search seems fruitless until, with the help of her Earthling friends, the search leads them into the...

A Voyage to Arcturus, the gender-bending, genre-smashing epic by David Lindsay, is a neglected landmark in the history of science fiction and fantasy.Cited as a major influence by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, its impact continues to resonate across...

This almost silent comic tells the story of an amateur alchemist and getaway driver for a bank heist. When the holdup goes wrong he finds himself with a bag full of hot cash, orders a build-your-own homunculus kit, and goes on the run. Tessler's dense...

An aging botanist withdraws to the seclusion of his family's vacation home in the German countryside. In his final days, he realizes that his life's work of scientific classification has led him astray from the hidden secrets of the natural world. As his...

Ex Libris revolves around a character who is holed up in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they start to feel that the comics contain some kind of message and...

Every story has a happy ending . . . it just depends on where you end the story. Like a River to the Sea is the story of an ordinary man, whose life story may have a most extraordinary impact on how you view your own life.Like a River to the Sea is the...

"A magical journey to a world of mystical delights." - Deepak Chopra, MDA Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar's debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelling. Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian...

The Path to Xanadu is the third book in the SiBoRE series of Eblox books. The events in this book take place years after the Coma Pandemic and the story called The Great Awakening. It answers most of the questions left open in previous books in this...

"Finding the Unpredictable Good" is a collection of short stories and essays by four authors sharing their real-life experiences. The challenges they've faced reflect their pursuit of the unpredictable good each of us discovers as we move through life...

How often have you thought that your life would be better if you could change one thing, or be someone else entirely? If offered a chance to do so, would you take it? There is more going on in the world than the natural eye can see. Misery, temptation,...

Named a must read book of 2023 by Nylon, BookRiot,Vulture, The Millions, and Ms. Magazine!A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors,...

Kalina, born in Bulgaria and now living in Boston, has always been a spiritual seeker. Her fourteen-year-old son, Marko, who has spina bifida and is partially paralyzed, shares her curiosity about larger metaphysical questions, but also has his own...

As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth. This is Simon Van Booy at his visionary best.'Language is a map...

A mesmerizing, poignant saga of love and loss firmly grounded in the Midwestern landscape by National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt.On a dark and lovely winter night, Noah Summers sits before a roaring fire, drifting between sleep and recollection,...

A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients-young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally...

"Through the spaces between people in these beguiling fictions, love wanders like a ghost, offering whispered hints of solace against a backdrop of isolating divisions. In the spirit of the enigmatic stories of Lydia Davis, Isak Dinesen, Yasunari...

THE GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOKS OF 2021 CBC BOOKSTHE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2021A fresh take on the romance novel from the Giller Prizewinning author of Fifteen DogsFrom their first meeting, it was clear that Gwen and Tancred were meant to be together...

Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road tripby his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries tounearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary roadtrip...