12 must-read science fiction books like Ignorance is Strength (The Dystopia Triptych #1) by John Joseph Adams

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Ignorance is Strength (The Dystopia Triptych #1)

By: John Joseph Adams

3.76

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell once wrote of a world where…

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1. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

By: John E. Sarno

4.06

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

“Dr. Sarno saved me from a life of pain.” — Howard Stern   The New York Times bestseller that has h… read more

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  • audiobook
"There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems."

-John E. Sarno, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

"Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation."

-John E. Sarno, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

"It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions."

-John E. Sarno, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

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2. The Witchcraft of Salem Village

By: Shirley Jackson

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A detailed account of one of the strangest and most shocking episodes in American history, written … read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
Cover of Sand (Sand, #1-5) by Hugh Howey

3. Sand (Sand, #1-5)

By: Hugh Howey

4.04

Format: 417 pages,

The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy. The old world is burie… read more

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  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... ... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I AM IMPRESSED. “I have faith."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"You know, you're rather amusingly wrong."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost"

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

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5. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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6. The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Pandora's Star

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in d… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Fly Paper (Nolan, #3)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Third in the series by Max Allan Collins that's an homage to Richard Stark's Parker novels read more

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9. Beacon 23 (Beacon 23, #1-5)

By: Hugh Howey

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a l… read more

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10. The Grand Hotel

By: Scott Kenemore

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the hotel where nobody can check out. When a desk clerk welcomes a group of tourists int… read more

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11. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

By: John Joseph Adams , Kelly Link , Seanan McGuire , Cat Rambo , Alaya Dawn Johnson , Neil Gaiman , Adam-Troy Castro , T. Coraghessan Boyle , A. Merc Rustad , Karen Russell , Susan Palwick , Joe Hill , Jo Walton , Daniel H. Wilson , Nathan Ballingrud , Carmen Maria Machado , Sofia Samatar , Sam J. Miller , Theodora Goss , Kelly Sandoval , Jess Row

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. We… read more

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12. I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.36

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

It starts with whispers. Then someone picks up a stone. Finally, the fires begin. When peo… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And you know what? Books live. The pages remember!"

-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."

-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)

"Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze."

-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)

"Everybody needs a witch, but sometimes they just don't know it."

-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)

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13. Deep Storm (Jeremy Logan, #1)

By: Lincoln Child

3.90

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean . . . scientists are excavating the most extraordi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

In this collection, Stephen King once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizin… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects . Books are friends . ... They're also ideas and emotions."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in..."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also …"

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

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15. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

By: Rob Wilkins

4.68

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (From a Certain Point of View, #3)

By: Elizabeth Schaefer

3.93

Format: 573 pages, Hardcover

Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless S… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel

By: Erin Macdonald

3.93

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Science fiction allows listeners to go places they can only dream of seeing—other worlds, distant s… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. Permafrost

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.87

Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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22. Across the Sand (The Sand Chronicles, #2)

By: Hugh Howey

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the … read more

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  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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23. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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24. When Things Get Dark

By: Ellen Datlow

3.90

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."

-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark

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25. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.04

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more

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  • audiobook
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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

-David Koepp, Cold Storage

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27. Can I Have My Ball Back? - A Memoir of Masculinity, Mortality and My Right Testicle

By: Richard Herring

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowar… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. The Sisters (Cormac Reilly, #.5)

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.61

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

3 hours, 8 minutes Two sisters climbing the ranks of Dublin’s criminal justice system. A murder … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Ignorance is Strength (The Dystopia Triptych #1)

By: John Joseph Adams

3.76

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell once wrote of a world where… read more

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  • adult
  • anthologies
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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30. 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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  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice by Katharine Gregorio

31. The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice

By: Katharine Gregorio

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1955, Katharine Clark, the first American woman wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, saw somet… read more

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4.04

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Terry Pratchett

4.12

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John Langan

4.06

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Isaac Asimov

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4.01

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Martha Wells

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

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