8 must-read science fiction books like Doggerland by Ben Smith

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Doggerland

By: Ben Smith

3.70

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Doggerland is brilliantly inventive, beautifully-crafted and superbly gripping debut novel about lo…

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1. The Lives of Animals

By: J.M. Coetzee , Peter Singer , Wendy Doniger , Marjorie Garber , Amy Gutmann , None

3.70

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years tha… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy."

-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals

"There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who…"

-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals

"I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into …"

-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals

"Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterpris…"

-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals

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2. Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

By: Sara Pascoe

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe. Wome… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. The Door That Led to Where

By: Sally Gardner

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Coot Club (Swallows and Amazons, #5) by Arthur Ransome

4. Coot Club (Swallows and Amazons, #5)

By: Arthur Ransome

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Dorothy and Dick have an adventure in the English countryside, involving frantic chases, calamitous… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Daughters of the North

By: Sarah Hall

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In her stunning novel, Hall imagines a new dystopia set in the not-too-distant future. England is i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
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6. Dreams and Shadows

By: C. Robert Cargill

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly crafted modern tale from acclaimed film critic and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill--pa… read more

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  • fiction

7. The Silence

By: Tim Lebbon

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the darkness of a vast cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt b… read more

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8. The Steep Approach to Garbadale

By: Iain Banks

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the h… read more

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9. The City of Lost Fortunes

By: None

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and m… read more

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10. An Oath of Dogs

By: Wendy N. Wagner

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Kate Standish has been on Huginn less than a week and she s already pretty sure her new company mur… read more

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11. City of Illusions

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

1.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and n… read more

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12. The Redemption of Galen Pike

By: Carys Davies

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her ne… read more

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13. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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14. The Man Who Saw Everything

By: Deborah Levy

3.67

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"There is a spectre inside every photograph."

-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."

-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."

-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."

-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

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15. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

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  • audiobook
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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16. Doggerland

By: Ben Smith

3.70

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Doggerland is brilliantly inventive, beautifully-crafted and superbly gripping debut novel about lo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • post apocalyptic
  • literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • climate change fiction
  • novels
  • science fiction
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17. Dreamland

By: Rosa Rankin-Gee

4.11

Format: 13 pages, Audiobook

For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain tha… read more

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  • audiobook
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • climate change fiction
  • science fiction
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18. Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.20

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy

19. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.22

Format: 444 pages, Hardcover

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. The Silver Collar (Thomas Hawkins #4)

By: Antonia Hodgson

4.37

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Autumn, 1728. Life is good for Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks in their home above the Cocked Pi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Cold Storage by David Koepp

21. Cold Storage

By: David Koepp

3.70

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator."

-David Koepp, Cold Storage

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22. Wish I Was Here

By: M. John Harrison

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'Is M John Harrison the best writer at work today? He's certainly among the deftest and most origin… read more

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  • literature
"Much of life, you will never know what happened to you at all, let alone to anyone else."

-M. John Harrison, Wish I Was Here

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23. Buying Time

By: Eric Brown

3.78

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

A bold new time-warping direction for a leading light in science fiction. In January 2017, somethin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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24. The Men

By: Sandra Newman

2.92

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mind-bending novel in which all men mysteriously disapp… read more

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  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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25. Daughter from the Dark

By: Marina Dyachenko

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra—a "dark Harry Po… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Stone Knife (The Songs of the Drowned, #1) by Anna  Stephens

26. The Stone Knife (The Songs of the Drowned, #1)

By: Anna Stephens

3.91

Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition

A fantasy epic of freedom and empire, gods and monsters, love, loyalty, honour, and betrayal, from … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Two Storm Wood

By: Philip Gray

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this thriller set on the battlefields of the Somme after the end of World War I, a woman investi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang

28. Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

By: Xiaowei Wang

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corner… read more

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"In Xi Jinping's China, it's uncomfortable for two strangers to go too deep into the subject of politics. There are no clear cut consequences for discussing politics. After all, this is preceisely how…"

-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

"Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is a belief that the universe is already perfect as it is, and that our duty as hum…"

-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

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29. The Dark Feather (The Songs of the Drowned #3)

By: Anna Stephens

4.51

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

Ixachipan is in flames. Rebellion rages in every land and across every hill as the Empire of Son… read more

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30. The Young Accomplice

By: Benjamin Wood

3.67

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1952, Joyce and Charlie Savigear are waiting on a railway platform in the quiet En… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Jaguar Path (The Songs of the Drowned, #2)

By: Anna Stephens

4.40

Format: 626 pages, Hardcover

The Empire of Songs reigns supreme. Across all the lands of Ixachipan, its hypnotic, magical music … read more

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