11 must-read classics books like The Tide Went Out by Charles Eric Maine

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The Tide Went Out

By: Charles Eric Maine

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

When London journalist Philip Wade learns that his article on nuclear weapons testing has been cens…

If you liked the classics plot in The Tide Went Out by Charles Eric Maine , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Porterhouse Blue (Porterhouse Blue, #1) by Tom Sharpe

1. Porterhouse Blue (Porterhouse Blue, #1)

By: Tom Sharpe

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows,… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
Cover of Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

By: Jack Finney

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."

-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Cover of The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2) by John Le Carré

3. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

By: John Le Carré

3.99

Format: 589 pages, Paperback

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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  • fiction
"Let's die of it before we're too old."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

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4. Wild Harbour

By: None , Ian MacPherson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare … read more

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  • classics
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • science fiction
Cover of Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien

5. Z for Zachariah

By: Robert C. O'Brien

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, thought-provoking story about life after a nuclear holocaust, by a Newbery Medalist. An… read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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6. Space Viking

By: H. Beam Piper

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Vengeance is a strange human motivation -- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would n… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling

7. Involution Ocean

By: Bruce Sterling

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix: A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boa… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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8. City

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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9. Smiley's People

By: John Le Carré

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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  • fiction

10. The Inverted World

By: Christopher Priest

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more

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  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of After London: or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies

11. After London: or, Wild England

By: Richard Jefferies

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The meadows were green, and so was the rising wheat which had been sown, but which neither had nor … read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • classics
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

12. The Fountains of Paradise

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morg… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy

13. The Man Who Fell to Earth

By: Walter Tevis

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more

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14. The Prestige

By: Christopher Priest

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent seance. From… read more

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15. Mockingbird

By: Walter Tevis

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend … read more

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16. The House on the Borderland

By: William Hope Hodgson

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more

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17. The Man With Six Senses

By: Muriel Jaeger

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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18. Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless s… read more

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19. The Kraken Wakes

By: John Wyndham

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • classics
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

20. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

By: Kate Wilhelm

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, throu… read more

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21. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

Cover of Geneva by Richard Armitage

22. Geneva

By: Richard Armitage

3.64

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alz… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0) by C. Robert Cargill

23. Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0)

By: C. Robert Cargill

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this apocalyptic adventure C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between h… read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
Cover of Tokyo Revengers, vol. 1 by Ken Wakui

24. Tokyo Revengers, vol. 1

By: Ken Wakui

4.36

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Takemichi Hanagaki, un joven que sobrevive con trabajos a tiempo parcial, ve en las noticias que su… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Tide Went Out by Charles Eric Maine

25. The Tide Went Out

By: Charles Eric Maine

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

When London journalist Philip Wade learns that his article on nuclear weapons testing has been cens… read more

Similar categories in Charles Eric Maine's The Tide Went Out book and Charles Eric Maine's The Tide Went Out

  • apocalyptic
  • classics
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • horror
Cover of Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction by Mike Ashley

26. Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction

By: Mike Ashley

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories of ecological disaster have been a long-term science fiction trend, but are finding new rel… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Question Mark by Muriel Jaeger

27. The Question Mark

By: Muriel Jaeger

3.32

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1926 Muriel Jaeger, dissatisfied with the Utopian visions of H G Wells and Edward Bellamy, set o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes by Mike Ashley

28. The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes

By: Mike Ashley

3.79

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
Cover of Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System by Mike Ashley

29. Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System

By: Mike Ashley

3.90

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

An original concept featuring a Golden Age science fiction for every planet in the Solar System, Bo… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of War in Heaven by Charles  Williams

30. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

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31. Where Time Winds Blow

By: Robert Holdstock

None

Format: None pages, None

fine hardcover book & fine (as new) dw (dust jacket), Science Fiction Book Club read more

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