The Push of a Finger
By: Alfred Bester
3.85
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
The Push of a Finger—or a careless word, for that matter—can wreck the entire universe. Think not? …
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1. The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Bolen
3.87
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
John Carter risks everything to rescue his wife, Princess Dejah Thoris, from the clutches of his ev… read more
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- science fiction
"I should at least die as I had lived—fighting."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
"It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
"If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
"If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
2. A Scanner Darkly
By: Philip K. Dick
4.02
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to… read more
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- science fiction
"We're all dreaming,"-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"I have seen myself backward."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"It's easy to win. Anybody can win."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
3. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
4. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.19
Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more
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- science fiction
"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
5. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
By: Martha Wells
4.15
Format: 144 pages, ebook
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
6. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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"All for one and one for all."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
7. 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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8. The Creature from Beyond Infinity
By: Henry Kuttner
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
You must remain here, Theron stated. "How many of us survived the voyage from Kyria? You must wait,… read more
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- science fiction
9. Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)
By: Isaac Asimov
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its supe… read more
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- science fiction
10. Geronimo: My Life
By: S.M. Barrett , Geronimo
4.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this, one of Native American history's most extraordinary documents, a legendary warrior and sha… read more
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11. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned … read more
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- short stories
12. This Crowded Earth
By: Robert Bloch , Gregg Margarite
3.93
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Robert Bloch was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H… read more
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- science fiction
13. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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14. The Gods of Mars (Barsoom, #2)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
1886. John Carter, forever 30, returns to Mars and again fights enemies with green Tars Tarka and r… read more
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15. 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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16. Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
4.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mars has become divided by love. Not one, but two princes and a Jeddak are vying for the love of Th… read more
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17. The Moon Pool
By: A. Merritt
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
One of the most gripping fantasies ever written, The Moon Pool embodies all the romanticism and poe… read more
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18. Triplanetary (Lensman, #1)
By: E.E. "Doc" Smith , None
3.43
Format: 232 pages,
Eddore and Arisia fought desperately to control the Universe. The ultimate battleground was a tiny,… read more
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19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more
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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"He had a dream and it shot him."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"All right, then, I'll go to hell."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
20. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.90
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more
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"Teach me to speak the language of men."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
21. The Martian Chronicles
By: Ray Bradbury
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonis… read more
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22. A Voyage to Arcturus
By: John Clute , David Lindsay , Loren Eiseley
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturushas inspired, enchanted, and uns… read more
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23. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more
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24. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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25. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
26. Primary Inversion (Saga of the Skolian Empire, #1)
By: Catherine Asaro
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light c… read more
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27. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb
4.02
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more
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"Homo homini monstrum"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"Oh! Everything I loved!"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
28. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye
3.81
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more
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"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
29. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
By: L. Frank Baum , W.W. Denslow
4.00
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to … read more
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"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..."-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
"If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace."-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
"El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado."-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
"She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil."-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
30. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
By: Max Brooks
3.91
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more
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"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
31. The Push of a Finger
By: Alfred Bester
3.85
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
The Push of a Finger—or a careless word, for that matter—can wreck the entire universe. Think not? … read more
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