2043... a Merman I Should Turn to Be (Black Stars, #3)
By: Nisi Shawl
2.95
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
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By: Veronica Roth
3.86
Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition
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2. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
By: Ann Leckie
3.65
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
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3. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.68
Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition
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4. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
By: John Scalzi
4.18
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
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5. Bloody Summer
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.70
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
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6. The Last Conversation
By: Paul Tremblay
3.76
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning autho… read more
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"Soon. You keep saying soon. I don't think you and I share that words meaning."-Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation
7. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.01
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
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8. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.87
Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition
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9. Ark
By: Veronica Roth
3.60
Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition
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10. Emergency Skin
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.03
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)
By: Lev Grossman
3.02
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. The Garden (Into Shadow, #1)
By: Tomi Adeyemi
2.80
Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Summer Frost
By: Blake Crouch
4.10
Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition
A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bend… read more
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14. The Tiger Came to the Mountains
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. Wildlife
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.38
Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. The Cleaners (Faraway Collection)
By: Ken Liu
3.48
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6)
By: Veronica G. Henry
3.43
Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. 2043... a Merman I Should Turn to Be (Black Stars, #3)
By: Nisi Shawl
2.95
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
African-descended USians are finally obtaining reparations—underwater. Plunge into the action of a … read more
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19. What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
3.63
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)
By: Garth Nix
3.31
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
A cynical “fixer” for a silent-film studio must confront the shadows behind the bright lights in th… read more
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21. Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection)
By: Nic Stone
3.47
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
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22. Controller (Warmer, #3)
By: Jesse Kellerman
2.74
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
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23. The Backbone of the World
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.93
Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition
An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more
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24. The Prince and the Troll (Faraway Collection)
By: Rainbow Rowell
3.26
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
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25. Falls the Shadow (Warmer, #5)
By: Skip Horack
2.59
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
A North Carolina combat vet finds himself far from home on the front lines of an environmental batt… read more
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26. A Righteous Man
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
3.29
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
A missionary in nineteenth-century Africa suffers a chilling crisis of faith in a short story about… read more
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27. The Princess Game (Faraway Collection)
By: Soman Chainani
3.51
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
There are no happy endings for the Princesses of Chaminade High in this short, twisty tale of teena… read more
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28. The Wickeds (Faraway Collection)
By: Gayle Forman
3.67
Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition
The reviled villainesses of Snow White, Cinderella, and Rapunzel team up to set the record straight… read more
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29. Boca Raton (Warmer, #2)
By: Lauren Groff
3.01
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
A mother’s latent fears rise as relentlessly as the Florida seas in a startling story of a planet, … read more
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30. Stag
By: Karen Russell
3.32
Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition
Feeling alone? Join the party in a darkly comic and deeply felt short story about fragility and res… read more
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31. There's No Place Like Home (Warmer, #4)
By: Edan Lepucki
3.52
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
In a climate-ravaged future, it’s not easy to grow up. One girl is trying her best in a story about… read more
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