What to Read After Mainspring
Readers who loved Mainspring by Jay Lake keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mainspring is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Mainspring
The Half-Made World
Extraordinary engines
Infernal devices
The Alchemy of Stone
The horns of ruin
Homunculus
Morlock Night
The light ages
Steampunk Prime
The Somnambulist
Retribution Falls
The difference engine
Green
Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Crystal rain
The Difference Engine
Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
The steampunk bible
The Buntline special
The etched city
City of Saints and Madmen
Mechanique
Sun of Suns (Virga, Book 1)
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town