Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle — 2 titles in the rankings, first published between 2016 and 2017. They average 7.7, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.
Editor’s note American novelist from Queens whose horror and dark fantasy are rooted in New York and in the lives of Black and working-class characters. The Ballad of Black Tom (2016), which won the Shirley Jackson Award, answers H. P. Lovecraft’s racist story The Horror at Red Hook from the point of view of a Black hustler in 1920s Harlem. The Changeling (2017), a modern fairy tale about a new father whose wife does something terrible, won the World Fantasy Award and became an Apple TV+ series in 2023. Start with The Ballad of Black Tom.
- Ranked titles
- 2 books
- Average score
- 7.7
- Total ratings
- 467
- First published
- 2016–2017
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Books by Victor LaValle
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- 1999Slapboxing with Jesus
- 2009Big Machine
- 2021We Travel the Spaceways
- 2023Lone Women
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