The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn
By: Algis Budrys
2.94
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
[Front Cover] "A wry, savage, brilliant idyll of a world to come and a human condition that is f…
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1. Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.18
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingd… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
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"Bein’ human means judgin’ all the time,"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Do you understand what’s going on here?"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Hah! The leopard does not change his shorts, my girl!"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
2. The Deep Range
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
After a terrifying nightmare in outer space, Walter Franklin needed to discover a reason for living… read more
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"It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love."-Arthur C. Clarke, The Deep Range
3. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
3.85
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more
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"It's dangerous to know too much."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
4. The Man in the High Castle
By: Philip K. Dick
3.60
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more
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"Don’t you feel it?"-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
5. Babel-17
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more
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6. To Live Forever
By: Jack Vance
4.50
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In the far-future city of Clarges, you can live forever - if you can make the grade. In Clarges, ev… read more
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7. Secret of the Lost Race
By: Andre Norton
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The Constellation of the Wolf was an area of the galaxy few spacemen wanted to visit, for its spars… read more
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8. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 64 pages,
'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more
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9. 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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10. The Shrinking Man
By: Richard Matheson
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidenta… read more
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11. The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle, sophisticated in… read more
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12. 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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"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
13. Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their w… read more
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14. Planet of the Apes
By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more
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15. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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16. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
17. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
18. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
19. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)
By: Margaret Hickey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more
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20. The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen
By: Don Hollway
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
King Harald III (called Hardrada, or "Hard Ruler") of Norway was a real-life fantasy hero who burst… read more
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21. The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn
By: Algis Budrys
2.94
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
[Front Cover] "A wry, savage, brilliant idyll of a world to come and a human condition that is f… read more
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- fantasy
