6 Best historical books like Slow Motion Ghosts by Jeff Noon

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Slow Motion Ghosts

By: Jeff Noon

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

______________A viciously occult murder.A curious clue left on the body.The soundtrack to the murde…

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Cover of Borne (Borne, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

1. Borne (Borne, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more

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  • fiction
"People with packs are people with purpose."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

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2. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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  • fiction
"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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3. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more

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  • fiction
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4. Confessions of a Crap Artist

By: Philip K. Dick

3.55

Format: 199 pages,

Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Yiddish Policemen's Union

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven cre… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

4.00

Format: 321 pages, ebook

The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had written Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction

8. The Penultimate Truth

By: Philip K. Dick

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. … read more

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9. Word Puppets

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A new short story collection from Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal, with an introduct… read more

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10. Dr. Futurity

By: Philip K. Dick

3.27

Format: None pages,

Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to … read more

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11. The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

By: Neal Stephenson

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.… read more

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12. The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)

By: Jim Butcher

4.25

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

The characters are off on a diplomatic mission to another Spire. A bunch of representatives of vari… read more

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13. City of Illusions

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

1.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and n… read more

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14. A Lesson in Vengeance

By: Victoria Lee

3.55

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School. Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Just so,"

-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

"For coffee-stained girls in libraries."

-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

"The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it."

-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

"The poems circle the same question: how one’s soul could possibly endure when life’s beauty vanishes from reach."

-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

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15. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

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  • fiction
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

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16. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

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17. The Original

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.79

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Hugo Award-winning authors Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal team up in this exclusive aud… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1) by Dan Jones

18. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

By: Dan Jones

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • british literature
"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"

-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

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19. Come with Me

By: Ronald Malfi

3.94

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoke… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1) by Jim Butcher

20. The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

By: Jim Butcher

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera nove… read more

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  • fiction
"I love you,"

-Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

"It's a tradition,"

-Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

"HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?"

-Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

"Predator is not property,"

-Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

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21. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3) by Theodora Goss

23. The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

By: Theodora Goss

4.04

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice—and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the elec… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
"Mary, it is sometimes permissible to lie to others, but it is never wise to lie to oneself."

-Theodora Goss, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

"However you feel about maids' uniforms, we don't have time to overthrow the social order today."

-Theodora Goss, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

" MARY: Are our readers going to know what the Athena Club is? CATHERINE: They will if they read the first two books! Which they should, and I hope if they are reading this volume and have not read th…"

-Theodora Goss, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

"There is modesty, and there is propriety. The former is a natural instinct, given to us when Adam and Eve left the garden and realized their nakedness. The latter is merely a social construct. Althou…"

-Theodora Goss, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

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24. Julia

By: Sandra Newman

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more

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  • fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."

-Sandra Newman, Julia

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25. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

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  • fiction
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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26. The Devil Aspect

By: Craig Russell

4.03

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hr… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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27. The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill

By: C.S. Robertson

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Death is not the end. For Grace McGill, it's only the beginning. When people die alone and undi… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Sure, we’re both on our own, but now we’re on our own together. Sometimes I wonder if I rescued him or if he rescued me. Maybe it doesn’t matter."

-C.S. Robertson, The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill

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28. The Last Days of New Paris

By: China Miéville

3.54

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

"Beauty will be convulsive...." It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
"Liberation was fucked up."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Devils and Nazis don’t work well together."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

Cover of Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss

29. Snow White Learns Witchcraft

By: Theodora Goss

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic—while anothe… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Slow Motion Ghosts by Jeff Noon

30. Slow Motion Ghosts

By: Jeff Noon

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

______________A viciously occult murder.A curious clue left on the body.The soundtrack to the murde… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Noon's Slow Motion Ghosts book and Jeff Noon's Slow Motion Ghosts

  • detective
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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31. The Heartbeat Library

By: Laura Imai Messina

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Nel sud-ovest del Giappone, in una pozza di mare condivisa da due province, Kagawa e Okayama, nuota… read more

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  • fiction

25 Top fiction books like Slow Motion Ghosts by Jeff Noon

Transform Your Habits

Borne (Borne, #1)

Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Iain M. Banks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Nikolai Gogol

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Confessions of a Crap Artist

Philip K. Dick

3.55

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11 Best fiction books like Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal

Transform Your Habits

The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)

Mary Stewart

3.40

Transform Your Habits

Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)

Zen Cho

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1)

Mary Robinette Kowal

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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