The Body Scout
By: Lincoln Michel
3.63
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
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Want to Read $ 9.99"...People had been predicting the death of the city for years. Would that finally drive all the people out of this sinking island? I imagined office buildings filled with screeches instead of conference calls and streets clogged with weeds instead of cars. I could see the appeal. It wasn't like a scorpion was going to charge me 10 percent interest on a medical loan for an upgrade I needed to live. Venom was quick, capitalism killed you nice and slow. Then sent you a bill."-Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout
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1. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
By: Charles Yu
3.45
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself."-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits."-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire."-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
2. Frances Johnson
By: Stacey Levine
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Unknown Binding
Frances Johnson doesn't want to attend the town dance. But there is pressure. The people of Munson,… read more
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- fiction
3. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
By: Malka Ann Older
3.64
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- science fiction
4. The Kaiju Preservation Society
By: John Scalzi
3.99
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I lift things."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"So we’re the monster police, too?"-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
5. Translation State
By: Ann Leckie
4.09
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I am not a potato."-Ann Leckie, Translation State
"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"-Ann Leckie, Translation State
6. Starter Villain
By: John Scalzi
4.16
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
7. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)
By: Malka Ann Older
4.01
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- science fiction
8. The Terraformers
By: Annalee Newitz
3.37
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
9. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
By: Nick Harkaway
4.03
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more
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- dystopia
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
10. The Paradox Hotel
By: Rob Hart
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. Jan… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- science fiction
"The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help."-Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel
11. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
12. No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1)
By: Cadwell Turnbull
3.45
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
13. 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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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Greatest Hits
By: Harlan Ellison
4.18
Format: 468 pages, Paperback
How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- speculative fiction
- fiction
15. Mal Goes to War: A Novel
By: Edward Ashton
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and… read more
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- cyberpunk
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- thriller
- audiobook
16. The Extractionist
By: Kimberly Unger
3.61
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
2023 Philip K. Dick Award Winner In her latest exciting technothriller, acclaimed author Kimberl… read more
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- cyberpunk
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- science fiction
- audiobook
17. Far from the Light of Heaven
By: Tade Thompson
3.51
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousan… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
- science fiction
"Nobody like everybody," says Fin. "Some people are shitty." She sucks her teeth. "Some people are just more difficult to accept than others, and you shouldn't dislike someone because of their weaknes…"-Tade Thompson, Far from the Light of Heaven
18. Catchpenny
By: Charlie Huston
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual wor… read more
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- audiobook
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- science fiction
19. Florida Man
By: Tom Cooper
3.52
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
20. The Borrowed Hills
By: Scott Preston
3.87
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
21. Counterweight
By: Djuna
3.06
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- science fiction
- audiobook
22. The Marigold
By: Andrew F. Sullivan
3.32
Format: 360 pages, ebook
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environm… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
23. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
24. Machinehood
By: S.B. Divya
3.65
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
A science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near fut… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
"The more things changed, the more they stayed the same."-S.B. Divya, Machinehood
"Technology was as habit-forming as every escapist, feel-good drug"-S.B. Divya, Machinehood
"What would be the long-term consequences for a dakini revolution? Every technological advancement had consequences."-S.B. Divya, Machinehood
"Her people attacked me, and I defended myself. We believe that she is responsible for crimes against human- and machine kind. We believe that the governments of Earth have failed to protect their peo…"-S.B. Divya, Machinehood
25. The Body Scout
By: Lincoln Michel
3.63
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
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- baseball
- cyberpunk
- dystopia
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- science fiction
- audiobook
"...People had been predicting the death of the city for years. Would that finally drive all the people out of this sinking island? I imagined office buildings filled with screeches instead of confere…"-Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout
26. A Beginning at the End
By: Mike Chen
3.51
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
How do you start over after the end of the world? Six years after a global pandemic wiped out mo… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
"See, relations are people with the same blood. But family, that's different. Family is about who gives you hope, who gets involved. And earns the right for forgiveness. Or at least starts down the pa…"-Mike Chen, A Beginning at the End
"As a community, we still emphasized the importance of familial ties but finally understood that the definition of family wasn't about blood or even who or what you'd lost. It was about what gave you …"-Mike Chen, A Beginning at the End
27. The Circumference of the World
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notoriou… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
28. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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- audiobook
29. The World Gives Way
By: Marissa Levien
3.83
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
In a near-future world on the brink of collapse, a young woman born into servitude must seize her o… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
30. The Visitors
By: Jessi Jezewska Stevens
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
C can’t pay her debts. Once a renowned textile artist, her husband has left her sole proprietor of … read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
31. Godwin
By: Joseph O'Neill
3.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
