14 Best science fiction books like The Hood Maker by Philip K. Dick

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The Hood Maker

By: Philip K. Dick

3.62

Format: 12 pages, Periodical

Teeps were feared because they were telepaths - but the telepaths had a fear too! “The Hood Make…

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Cover of Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5) by Douglas Adams

1. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

By: Douglas Adams

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  soon to be a Hulu o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Fuck ’em,"

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"

-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

Cover of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4) by Douglas Adams

3. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

By: Douglas Adams

4.09

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ra… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Shit!"

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"Non tout baigne, tout ce qui est susceptible de biagner, baigne."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

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4. Time and the Gods

By: Lord Dunsany , Lin Carter

3.85

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Lord Dunsany was an Irish poet and dramatist. He spent his life living in the famous Dunsany castle… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Alfred Birnbaum

5. The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Alfred Birnbaum

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536 With the same deadpan mania and genius for disloca… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Sometimes when I think about entities—like in “separate entities"

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

6. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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7. The Tomb

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.51

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

Jervas Dudley was only a child when he found the mausoleum of the Hyde family. The place becomes ve… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Tomb

Cover of Roadside Picnic by Theodore Sturgeon, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis, None

8. Roadside Picnic

By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Keep your head high,"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

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9. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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10. The Egg

By: Andy Weir

3.41

Format: None pages, ebook

A short story about the universe. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Hard to Be a God by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

11. Hard to Be a God

By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky

3.39

Format: 440 pages,

The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of The Castle by Franz Kafka, Mark Harman, Regaip Minareci, None

12. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

13. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Who needs a ladder when you’ve got a giraffe with an extended neck? The Ladderless Window-Cleani… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

14. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

Cover of Pickman's Model by H.P. Lovecraft

15. Pickman's Model

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.49

Format: 288 pages, ebook

"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first publishe… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

16. 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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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Cugel saga by Jack Vance, Monique Lebailly

17. Cugel saga

By: Jack Vance , Monique Lebailly

4.16

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Pauvre Cugel : alors qu'il pensait tenir sa revanche sur Iucounu, le magicien rieur, le voila renvo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Stars My Destination by Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester

18. The Stars My Destination

By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

19. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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20. The Eyes of the Overworld (The Dying Earth, #2)

By: Jack Vance

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that rev… read more

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21. Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden

By: Stephen King , James Woods

4.50

Format: 60 pages,

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22. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

Cover of A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) by Vernor Vinge

23. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.14

Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"We're endangered by our own success."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

24. Meeting Sarah

By: Andy Weir

3.69

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Original Fiction, Short Story, Science Fiction Daniel Stoltz sat comfortably in the back of his Lim… read more

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25. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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26. Batman: Three Jokers

By: Geoff Johns

3.95

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

30 years after "The Killing Joke" changed comics forever, "The Three Jokers" re-examines the myth o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Kiki's Delivery Service (Kiki's Delivery Service, #1) by Eiko Kadono

27. Kiki's Delivery Service (Kiki's Delivery Service, #1)

By: Eiko Kadono

4.15

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Nostalgic fans of the Miyazaki film and newcomers alike--soar into the modern classic about a young… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Hood Maker by Philip K. Dick

28. The Hood Maker

By: Philip K. Dick

3.62

Format: 12 pages, Periodical

Teeps were feared because they were telepaths - but the telepaths had a fear too! “The Hood Make… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • short stories
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  • science fiction

23 best-selling fiction books like The Hood Maker by Philip K. Dick

Transform Your Habits

Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

Douglas Adams

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

Transform Your Habits

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

Douglas Adams

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Time and the Gods

Lord Dunsany , Lin Carter

3.85

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16 Best fiction books like The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

Transform Your Habits

The Boy in the Dress

Quentin Blake , David Walliams

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Castle in the Field

Michael Morpurgo , Faye Hanson

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Charlotte's Web/Stuart Little Slipcase Gift Set

E.B. White , Garth Williams

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The World’s Worst Children

Tony Ross , David Walliams

4.14

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