Isles of the Emberdark is the fifth book in the Secret Projects series from Brandon Sanderson. It is set within the Cosmere universe, and is, strictly speaking, a sequel to Sixth of the Dusk. Reading Sixth of the Dusk, however, is not a prerequisite, and Isles of the Emberdark can be read as a standalone novel. The first few chapters in Isles of the Emberdark cover the plot of Sixth of the Dusk as a series of flashbacks.

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The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

Piranesi is a speculative literary fiction novel written by Susanna Clarke in 2020.

The novel is written as a journal belonging to “Piranesi”, who lives inside a seemingly endless labyrinth called “The House”. The novel throws the reader right into the middle of one of his journal entries without explaining why Piranesi is in the House, or how he reached there in the first place.

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