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24 titles for readers of Vellum by Hal Duncan, selected for shared themes: Epic, Fantasy, and Literary.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Hour of the Dragon — Robert E. Howard

The Hour of the Dragon — Robert E. Howard

Robert E Howard

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

Peake’s Progress Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake — Mervyn Peake

Peake’s Progress Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Fate of the Tearling A Novel — Erika Johansen

The Fate of the Tearling A Novel

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

Babel Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution — R. F. Kuang

Babel Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Lord of the Rings Deluxe Illustrated by the Author Special Edition — J R R Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Deluxe Illustrated by the Author Special Edition — J R R Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #4 Morgoth’s Ring / The War of the Jewels / The Peoples of Middle-Earth / Index — Christopher Tolkien

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #4 Morgoth’s Ring / The War of the Jewels / The Peoples of Middle-Earth / Index

Christopher Tolkien

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

That Hideous Strength — C.S. Lewis

That Hideous Strength — C.S. Lewis

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

Sunshield A Novel — Emily B. Martin

Sunshield A Novel

Emily B. Martin

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Magician King A Novel — Lev Grossman

The Magician King A Novel

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set Contains Tvtie-In Editions Of: Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, and the Return of the King — J R R Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set Contains Tvtie-In Editions Of: Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, and the Return of the King — J R R Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

Renegade’s Magic Book Three of The Soldier Son Trilogy — Robin Hobb

Renegade’s Magic Book Three of The Soldier Son Trilogy

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Silmarillion — John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

The Silmarillion

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Well of Ascension — Brandon Sanderson

The Well of Ascension

Brandon Sanderson

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Great Hunt Book Two of ‘The Wheel of Time’ — Robert Jordan

The Great Hunt Book Two of ‘The Wheel of Time&#8217

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Passage A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy) — Justin Cronin

The Passage A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

Wonders Will Never Cease A Novel — Robert Irwin

Wonders Will Never Cease A Novel

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Deepest Blue Tales of Renthia — Sarah Beth Durst

The Deepest Blue Tales of Renthia

Sarah Beth Durst

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

Captive of Gor — John Norman

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Scrolls of the Ancients — Robert Newcomb

The Scrolls of the Ancients

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Black Tower — Louis Bayard

The Black Tower

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

Out of Oz The Final Volume in the Wicked Years — Gregory Maguire

Out of Oz The Final Volume in the Wicked Years

Gregory Maguire

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Prophet of the Termite God Book Two of the Antasy Series — Clark Thomas Carlton

The Prophet of the Termite God Book Two of the Antasy Series

Clark Thomas Carlton

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Fantasy — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Fantasy

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Themes: Epic • Fantasy • Literary

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Vellum by Hal Duncan. Connected by Epic, Fantasy, Literary. Authors featured include Robert E Howard, Mervyn Peake, Erika Johansen, Patrick Rothfuss, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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