Golden State
By: Ben H. Winters
3.47
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement…
Want to Read $ 11.99"They are Librarians, and they do not fuck around."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"After all, they'll tell you, everything that happens belongs to the State, and a thought is just an event that happens in your head."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"What we know of the past is enough to be afraid, enough to build this world, our good and golden world, around preventing a repeat of the mistakes that destroyed the world before."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"Because just imagine--just imaging the alternative, the world in which a man encounters some scrap of information, about the murder rate in his neighborhood, or about the presence of troops on the northern border, or what time the bus is supposed to come--any of the small and large pieces of information a person encounters in the course of a day or a lifetime, personal or political, substantive or trivial--and then the next hour or the next day he hears something different, and it is impossible, literally impossible, to know which version is the real one."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
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1. Night of Camp David
By: Fletcher Knebel
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
How can one man convince the highest powers in Washington that the President of the United States i… read more
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"You double-crossed me, MacVeagh,"-Fletcher Knebel, Night of Camp David
"Oh Senator, how could you be so cruel – and so ignorant of the true facts."-Fletcher Knebel, Night of Camp David
"Who knew what fantastic secret agreement might emerge from such a meeting?"-Fletcher Knebel, Night of Camp David
"The mental business is almost impossible to handle at the apex of government"-Fletcher Knebel, Night of Camp David
2. Every Reasonable Doubt (Vernetta Henderson, #1)
By: Pamela Samuels Young
4.12
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
When attorneys Vernetta Henderson and Neddy McClain are tapped to take on the biggest case of their… read more
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3. Slan (Slan, #1)
By: A.E. van Vogt
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W.… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
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- speculative fiction
- audiobook
4. Early Riser
By: Jasper Fforde
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies danger… read more
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- dystopia
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5. Six Degrees of Separation
By: John Guare
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners. read more
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6. Startup
By: Doree Shafrir
4.43
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that… read more
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7. Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)
By: Laird Barron
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valle… read more
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"God lit a candle and then made us. He was afraid of being alone in the dark."-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)
"I'm a wary believer in signs and portents. The universe is always muttering threats."-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)
8. Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1)
By: Laird Barron
3.95
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when… read more
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9. The Future
By: Naomi Alderman
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
10. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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- fiction
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
11. Camp Zero
By: Michelle Min Sterling
3.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intert… read more
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"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero
"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero
12. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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13. Arboreality
By: Rebecca Campbell
4.06
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. … read more
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- science fiction
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14. Snowglobe
By: Soyoung Park
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can es… read more
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15. The Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more
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16. The Ministry of Time
By: Kaliane Bradley
3.62
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more
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- science fiction
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"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
17. The Kingdom of Sweets
By: Erika Johansen
3.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author of the Queen of the Tearling series, Erika Johansen, journeys to a new kingdom i… read more
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"Names are only a lessening, child. They do not describe us. Before my real life began, I was enslaved, but I have left that time behind. In the years since, I have been called many things by many peo…"-Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets
18. Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
3.83
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more
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19. The End of October
By: Lawrence Wright
3.76
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
In this medical thriller Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origi… read more
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"Those laboratory animals have done us no harm. They are tortured and murdered in the name of science. I know, I used to do it myself to my great shame. Is the benefit to humanity worth the sacrifice …"-Lawrence Wright, The End of October
"By now night had fully occupied the sky, which was splattered with stars that seemed merely a few feet away. "I can see why religions are born in the desert," Henry said. "Yes, we have this problem,"…"-Lawrence Wright, The End of October
"Both sides had entered the war already weakened by the disease, and just as in 1918, armies propagated the contagion. Hospitals, already overfilled by flu victims, were unable to treat more than a fr…"-Lawrence Wright, The End of October
20. Golden State
By: Ben H. Winters
3.47
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement… read more
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"They are Librarians, and they do not fuck around."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"After all, they'll tell you, everything that happens belongs to the State, and a thought is just an event that happens in your head."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"What we know of the past is enough to be afraid, enough to build this world, our good and golden world, around preventing a repeat of the mistakes that destroyed the world before."-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
"Because just imagine--just imaging the alternative, the world in which a man encounters some scrap of information, about the murder rate in his neighborhood, or about the presence of troops on the no…"-Ben H. Winters, Golden State
21. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #5
By: Patrick Horvath
4.29
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
Sam’s foe was quick and mighty clever. Now Sam must skip town, maybe forever. The town doesn’t trus… read more
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22. Again and Again
By: Jonathan Evison
3.75
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America’s greatest, most creative novelists comes Again and Again , a poignant and endl… read more
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- fiction
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23. One of Our Kind
By: Nicola Yoon
3.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more
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24. The Winter Sister
By: Megan Collins
3.66
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
In this spellbinding and suspenseful debut, a young woman haunted by the past returns home to care … read more
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25. The Municipalists
By: Seth Fried
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the … read more
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"Just my luck. The first colleague I'd befriended at the agency and it was an alcoholic supercomputer."-Seth Fried, The Municipalists
"Here, pay attention, what I'm about to tell you is the truest, most important thing: None of us is right."-Seth Fried, The Municipalists
"A man holding an assault rifle ordered me out into the hallway. There was a whole tactical assault team standing behind him. “This is so flattering,"-Seth Fried, The Municipalists
"Couldn’t you have lied about something else?" OWEN gave me a long, blank look, as if by asking this question I had betrayed a fundamental lack of understanding with respect to the intensity of his ha…"-Seth Fried, The Municipalists
26. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #6
By: Patrick Horvath
4.43
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
In Woodbrook's darkest days, many have died. The townsfolk have trembled, shivered, and cried. A ho… read more
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27. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
By: Annalee Newitz
3.99
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling Best-… read more
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28. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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29. The Lady Waiting
By: Magdalena Zyzak
3.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The White Lotus meets The Talented Mr. Ripley in this high-spirited novel of a stolen Vermeer, a Po… read more
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30. Mind Games
By: Shana Silver
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Arden sells memories. Whether it’s the becoming homecoming queen or studying for that all important… read more
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31. Last Supper
By: Christopher Charles
3.06
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Hosting a local television show about cooking final meals for inmates on death row is the type of g… read more
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