Superhero fiction books
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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
Soon I Will Be Invincible
Austin GrossmanA dual-perspective novel contrasting a bitter, hyper-intelligent supervillain with a newly recruited cyborg superhero, dissecting standard comic tropes.
Steelheart
Brandon SandersonA dystopian adventure where superpowers invariably turn recipients into tyrants, leaving unpowered humans to hunt them using preparation and tactics.
Hench
Natalie Zina WalschotsExamines the systemic collateral damage of superheroes through the eyes of an office worker who calculates the financial and human costs of hero antics.
Forging Hephaestus
Drew HayesFocuses on the strict rules, internal politics, and apprenticeships within an organized guild of villains operating in a regulated superhuman world.
Vicious
V. E. SchwabA dark, morally ambiguous story of two college rivals who discover how to induce superhuman abilities through near-death experiences.
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