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Mark Z. Danielewski

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in New York, The United States

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http://www.markzdanielewski.com

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Literature & Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary

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May 2010

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Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author best known for his books House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, The Little Blue Kite, and The Familiar series.

Danielewski studied English Literature at Yale. He then decided to move to Berkeley, California, where he took a summer program in Latin at the University of California, Berkeley. He also spent time in Paris, preoccupied mostly with writing.

In the early 1990s, he pursued graduate studies at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He later served as an assistant editor and worked on sound for Derrida, a documentary based on the life of the Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher Jacques Derrida.

His second novel, Only Revolutions, was released in 2006. The novel wa ...more

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New Short Story by House of Leaves Author Mark Z. Danielewski

A lifelong interest of mine has been the question of space. How we need it, fear it, want it, find it, make it, make peace with it, measure it, defend it, go to war for it, give it away, deny it, seduce it, cultivate it, think and feel because of it; whether it’s in our minds, our hearts, on the page. It’s a subject that happily sustains enduring conversations with architects, artists and musician Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.05 · 233,848 ratings · 27,083 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 206,509 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fifty Year Sword 3.59 avg rating — 6,260 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Only Revolutions 3.23 avg rating — 5,929 ratings — published 2006 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Rainy Day in May (The Familiar, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 4,255 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whalestoe Letters 4.08 avg rating — 2,948 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tom's Crossing 4.33 avg rating — 2,081 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Forest (The Familiar, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 1,612 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honeysuckle & Pain (The Familiar, #3) 4.36 avg rating — 1,095 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hades (The Familiar, #4) 4.38 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redwood (The Familiar, #5) 4.44 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Familiar (5 books)
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Now here’s an interesting stack of books… To honor the conclusion of the first quarter of the new century, we’ve ventured deep into the...

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December 2018 Runners-Up General Poll

The books that make up this poll are the Runners-Up (second place*) from the 2018 Subgenre Polls.

*Exceptions as follows:
- The January/February selection is the 4th place runner-up since at the time the top three books were read as Group Reads.
- The April selection is the 5th place runner-up since the top three books were read as Group Reads in August and the 4th place runner-up was the winner of the July Subgenre Poll.
- The September selection is the 4th place runner-up since the third place runner-up was also the third place runner-up in November and being used as the November selection.
- The October selection is the 4th place runner-up as we selected the top three books to read with no Subgenre selection.

We ask that you only vote if you are planning on participating in our discussion should your choice win.

Which Crime, Mystery, or Thriller book would you like to read in December?

Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1) (November) by Peter James

9 votes, 17.3%

House of Leaves (October) by Mark Z. Danielewski

8 votes, 15.4%

A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) (June) by Ngaio Marsh

7 votes, 13.5%

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1) (August) by Laurie R. King

7 votes, 13.5%

I Am Not a Serial Killer (April) by Dan Wells

6 votes, 11.5%

Night School (Roy Grace #1) (November) by Lee Child

5 votes, 9.6%

The Shadow Land (September) by Elizabeth Kostova

4 votes, 7.7%

Conclave (July) by Robert Harris

4 votes, 7.7%

The Third Victim (Quincy & Rainie, #2) (May) by Lisa Gardner

2 votes, 3.8%

52 total votes

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