Read-alikes and related books

Books like Blinding Light

Explore 24 books like Blinding Light by Paul Theroux — a handpicked selection united by Indigenous and Fantasy.

Indigenous Fantasy Fiction

Top related books to Blinding Light

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Blinding Light.

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

Snuff A Discworld Novel

Terry Pratchett

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

Hula A Novel

Jasmin Iolani Hakes

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

Empire of Wild A Novel

Cherie Dimaline

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

Fevered Star

Rebecca Roanhorse

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

The Sunforge

Sascha Stronach

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

The Vanished Series Books 1-3

B. B. Griffith

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

The Removed A Novel

Brandon Hobson

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

Dance of the Returned

Devon A. Mihesuah

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#10

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath The First Book of Nampeshiweisit

Moniquill Blackgoose

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#11

Black Hills A Novel

Dan Simmons

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#12

Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#13

The Sentence A Novel

Louise Erdrich

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#14

Summer Light

Elyse Guttenberg

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#15

And She Was A Novel

Cindy Dyson

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#16

The Serpent in Heaven

Charlaine Harris

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#17

People of the Owl A Novel of Prehistoric North America — Kathleen O’Neal Gear

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#18

VenCo A Novel

Cherie Dimaline

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#19

When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky

Margaret Verble

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#20

Spiral

Margaret C. Murray

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#21

Swim Home to the Vanished

Brendan Shay Basham

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#22

Tree in the Trail

Holling Clancy Holling

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#23

The Door on the Sea

Caskey Russell

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

#24

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Isabel Allende

Themes: Indigenous • Fantasy

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Indigenous, Fantasy — the same threads that run through Blinding Light by Paul Theroux. Among the authors featured: Louise Erdrich, Terry Pratchett, Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Cherie Dimaline, and others.