14 Best science fiction books like The Caves of Night by John Christopher

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The Caves of Night

By: John Christopher

3.54

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five people enter the Frohnberg caves, three men and two women. In the glare of the Austrian sunshi…

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Cover of The Time Thief (The Gideon Trilogy, #2) by Linda Buckley-Archer

1. The Time Thief (The Gideon Trilogy, #2)

By: Linda Buckley-Archer

3.92

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a seventeenth-century bad guy has twenty-first-century technology? An accident w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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2. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Drop dead-but first get permit"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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3. Winter in the Blood

By: James Welch

3.82

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel… read more

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  • fiction
"He had followed the calendar, the years, time- Bird farted. And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it…"

-James Welch, Winter in the Blood

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4. Mother Night

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.23

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"When you're dead you're dead."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

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5. America Pacifica

By: Anna North

3.67

Format: 230 pages,

America Pacifica is an island hundreds of miles off the coast of California, the only warm place le… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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6. Sarnia

By: John Christopher , Hilary Ford

4.06

Format: None pages, ebook

Life holds no prospect of luxury or excitement after Sarnia's beloved mother dies: potential suitor… read more

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7. The Hike

By: Drew Magary

4.14

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you've read before, weaving elements o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Tortilla Flat

By: John Steinbeck

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Postmortal

By: Drew Magary

3.38

Format: None pages,

John Farrell is about to get "The Cure." Old age can never kill him now. The only problem is, every… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Little People

By: Tom Holt

4.07

Format: 242 pages,

I was eight years old when I saw my first elf' ... And for unlikely hero Michael it wasn't his last… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Sand (Sand, #1-5)

By: Hugh Howey

4.04

Format: 417 pages,

The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy. The old world is burie… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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12. Slow Bullets

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, be… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

13. 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
  • fiction
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14. Doctor Who and the Daleks

By: David Whitaker

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is Doctor Who's first exciting adventure with the Daleks! Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright tr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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15. Sarah (Women of Genesis, #1)

By: Orson Scott Card

3.64

Format: 192 pages,

Sarai was a child of ten years, wise for her age but not yet a woman, when she first met Abram. He … read more

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  • fiction
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16. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • fiction
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17. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

18. Against the Fall of Night

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.00

Format: None pages,

The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity's last home. Alone among immortals, the o… read more

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19. Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

By: Rachel Hewitt

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map - the first complete, ac… read more

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20. The Grand Banks Café (Maigret, #9)

By: Georges Simenon , David Coward

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sailors don't talk much to other men, especially not to policemen. But after Captain Fallut's body … read more

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21. The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

22. In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more

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23. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more

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24. The Lost City of the Monkey God

By: Douglas Preston

3.93

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more

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25. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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26. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and John Christopher's The Caves of Night

  • fiction
  • horror
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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27. Little Eyes

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"Regulation has nothing to do with setting standards; it meant putting rules in place that worked in favor of a few."

-Samanta Schweblin, Little Eyes

"The animal's camera was installed behind its eyes, and sometimes it spun around on the three wheels hidden in its base, moving forward or backward. Someone was controlling the creature from somewhere…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Little Eyes

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

28. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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29. The Caves of Night

By: John Christopher

3.54

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five people enter the Frohnberg caves, three men and two women. In the glare of the Austrian sunshi… read more

Similar categories in John Christopher's The Caves of Night book and John Christopher's The Caves of Night

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) by Mick Herron

30. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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31. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Spook Street (Slough House, #4) book and John Christopher's The Caves of Night

  • thriller
  • fiction
"...What did you say?"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

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3.92

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4.15

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3.82

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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4.21

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