They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded
By: James Alan Gardner
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author James Alan Gardner returns to the superheroic fantasy world of All Those Explo…
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1. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
By: Neal Stephenson , Nicole Galland
3.86
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commer… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"I love the scent of a man under pressure."-Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
"They could not see what they could not imagine"-Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
"the American obsession with putting ice cubes into everything."-Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
"with the perky vigor of a man who had sat through one too many free webinars about the importance of networking."-Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)
2. Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School, #2)
By: Gail Carriger
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
3. Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
By: Matt Ruff
4.02
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and i… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"I’m sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can’t even change itself. I’m tired of the bullshit."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"The tea and the cookie were remarkably bland - flavourless, to be honest - but when swallowed, they produced a mild intoxication, a torpor of reason that allowed him to embrace a parley with a dead m…"-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
4. Feedback (Newsflesh, #4)
By: Mira Grant
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of New York Timesbestseller Mir… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
5. Competence (Custard Protocol, #3)
By: Gail Carriger
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
From New York Timesbestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Imprudence. Acci… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
6. Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School, #1)
By: Gail Carriger
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
7. Prudence (The Custard Protocol, #1)
By: Gail Carriger
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a new novel in the world of the Parasol … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
8. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
By: David Wong
3.88
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too … read more
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- urban fantasy
- humor
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"When a man plans, a woman laughs."-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"John, let me make one thing clear,"-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy"-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"No. We talked about this. I’m going home to eat a pie."-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
9. Imprudence (The Custard Protocol, #2)
By: Gail Carriger
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
London is in chaos. Rue and the crew of The Spotted Custard returned from India with revelations th… read more
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10. Waistcoats & Weaponry (Finishing School, #3)
By: Gail Carriger
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style--with a steel-bladed fan secreted … read more
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11. Chasing the Moon
By: A. Lee Martinez
4.67
Format: 523 pages, Hardcover
Unspeakable horrors threaten the earth in this fantastic new comic fantasy from the author of Divin… read more
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12. Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing, #1)
By: Vivian Shaw
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive… read more
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13. This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
By: David Wong
4.26
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the… read more
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- urban fantasy
- humor
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Damn it! I knew she was a monster! John! Amy! Listen! Guard your buttholes."-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
"When they write the sequel to the Bible, that shit is definitely gonna be in there."-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
"Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back."-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
"Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons."-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
14. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more
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- urban fantasy
- lgbt
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
15. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)
By: Moniquill Blackgoose
4.17
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more
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- audiobook
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
16. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Martha Wells
4.22
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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- humor
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
17. Starter Villain
By: John Scalzi
4.16
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
18. The Death of Jane Lawrence
By: Caitlin Starling
3.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
19. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
By: Cory Doctorow
3.90
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
20. If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)
By: Jason Pargin
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin’s hilarious and horrifying John Dies at the End seri… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"When Joy looked at humans, she saw animals so detached from the food chain that their own boredom was eating them alive. None of their instincts made sense to them; they were primates adorning themse…"-Jason Pargin, If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)
21. Hench (Hench, #1)
By: Natalie Zina Walschots
4.02
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a… read more
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- canada
- superheroes
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I wondered what it must be like to be so mediocre and so confident that the same time."-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"But even if the label on your own feelings doesn't matter, wouldn't you want to know how you felt about you? He pulled me off an operating table and rebuilt my brain. He killed people to get to me. W…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"No one wants to be a real hero; it’s too hard. My husband didn’t give a damn whether the work I was doing was noble as long as it appeared to be. When I killed someone then - something I did a lot mo…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
22. The Tusks of Extinction
By: Ray Nayler
3.85
Format: 192 pages, ebook
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
23. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
24. Ghostdrift (Finder Chronicles, #4)
By: Suzanne Palmer
4.59
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
The fourth and final installment of the Finder Chronicles, a hopepunk sci-fi caper described as Mac… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
25. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
By: Eddie Robson
3.91
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
26. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)
By: L.M. Sagas
3.92
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more
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- audiobook
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- lgbt
27. Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (Zoey Ashe, #2)
By: David Wong
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author David Wong's Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the latest—an… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"There are things people actually believe said Andre, and things they only pretend to believe because it's convenient. But over time it don't matter which is which, it all just blurs together."-David Wong, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (Zoey Ashe, #2)
28. Chilling Effect (Chilling Effect, #1)
By: Valerie Valdes
3.53
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and … read more
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- humor
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
29. Kingdom of Needle and Bone
By: Mira Grant
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
We live in an age of wonders. Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases th… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
30. Laughter at the Academy
By: Seanan McGuire
4.36
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
From fairy tale forest to gloomy gothic moor, from gleaming epidemiologist’s lab to the sandy shore… read more
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- urban fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
"He was a poster child for science as a force for good…at least until the tentacles started bursting from the windows."-Seanan McGuire, Laughter at the Academy
"There were realities the human mind was never meant to withstand, pressures it was never meant to survive. Knowledge is like the sea. Go too deep, and the crushing weight of it could kill you."-Seanan McGuire, Laughter at the Academy
"You had years of medical knowledge behind you, scores of experts beside you, and still you chose to run like dumb animals, useless and panicked, to infect the world that you were so sure existed to o…"-Seanan McGuire, Laughter at the Academy
31. They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded
By: James Alan Gardner
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author James Alan Gardner returns to the superheroic fantasy world of All Those Explo… read more
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- canada
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- humor
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
