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What to read after “The Arctic Fury” by Greer Macallister: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Terror
Dan Simmons · 2007
Similar setting: “Arctic”
In 1845 two Royal Navy ships sail to find the Northwest Passage and vanish into the Arctic ice. As the crews endure cold, scurvy and starvation, they are stalked across the frozen waste by a creature that should not exist.
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The Lost City of Z
David Grann · 2009
Similar plot moves: “Missing Person” and “Quest”
In 1925 the explorer Percy Fawcett walked into the Amazon to find a fabled civilization he called Z, and never came out. Decades later a journalist follows the same trails, sifting clues and rumors to learn what became of the missing expedition.
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing · 1959
Similar setting: “Arctic”
- Arctic
- Survival
In 1914 Ernest Shackleton sets out to cross Antarctica; in 1915 his ship is crushed by the ice and the crew is left stranded. This account follows their months on drifting floes and the desperate open-boat journey he makes to seek rescue.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969
Similar setting: “Arctic”
An envoy from a galactic federation lands on the frozen world of Gethen to invite its nations into an alliance. Its people have no fixed gender, and as he crosses the ice with a disgraced politician, he learns how much of his own culture he took for granted.
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The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- Missing Person
In 1947, pregnant and unmarried Charlie follows a lead about her missing cousin to a ruined woman in London. Their search draws on the story of Eve, a spy who ran a network in occupied France during the First World War, and the betrayals that broke it.
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The Wager
David Grann · 2023
Similar plot moves: “Courtroom Drama” and “Survival”
- Courtroom Drama
- Survival
In 1740 a British warship hunting a Spanish treasure galleon is wrecked off Patagonia. Months later two groups of survivors reach South America with opposing stories, and a court martial must decide which men were heroes and which were mutineers.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Courtroom Drama” and “Survival”
- Courtroom Drama
- Survival
Abandoned by her family as a child, Kya grows up alone in a North Carolina marsh, shunned by the nearby town as the Marsh Girl. She teaches herself to survive on the land and inches toward love, until a local man is found dead and she becomes the chief suspect.
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry · 1985
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- Quest
- Survival
Two former Texas Rangers drive a herd of cattle north to Montana, leading a ragged crew across rivers, drought and hostile country. The long journey tests the old friendship of the two men and the loyalties of everyone who follows them.
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The Revenant
Michael Punke · 2002
Similar plot moves: “Quest” and “Survival”
- Quest
- Survival
Frontiersman Hugh Glass is mauled by a bear and left for dead by his companions, who take his rifle and supplies. He crawls out of the wilderness and sets out on a long journey to find the men who abandoned him.
10
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Courtroom Drama”
- Courtroom Drama
Starr splits her life between her mostly white school and her neighbourhood, until she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed friend. As the case becomes public, she must decide whether to stay silent or find her voice and speak for him.
11
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell · 2004
Same genre: “Historical fiction” and “Adventure”
Raised by Vikings after they kill his father, the Saxon boy Uhtred must choose between the people who love him and the kingdom of his birth. As Alfred of Wessex battles the Danes, Uhtred becomes a warrior torn between two worlds.
12
The Great Train Robbery
Michael Crichton · 1975
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
In 1855 a polished thief plans to steal a shipment of gold being carried by train from London toward the Crimea. He gathers a crew, copies the four keys to the safes and studies the timetable, while a police informant threatens to expose the scheme.