Japan Sinks
By: Sakyo Komatsu
3.55
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Una de las obras cumbre de la ciencia ficción japonesa. Tras el misterioso hundimiento de una islit…
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1. Il pastore d'Islanda
By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson , Maria Valeria D'Avino , Gunnar Gunnarsson
3.85
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Il Natale può essere festeggiato in tanti modi, ma Benedikt ne ha uno tutto suo: ogni anno la prima… read more
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"A za tím snem pořád věděl, že čas utíka a nikdy se nezastaví, nezastaví ho ani rěky, nikdy se neunaví, že běží stále kuprědu, tajuplně jako rěka z ledovce a spíciho člověka prekročí, jako by byl mrtv…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Il pastore d'Islanda
"Der Mensch hängt an dem Seinen, an sich selbst und dem Seinen, bis über den Tod hinaus und bangt davor, das Leben aus den Händen zu verlieren - dies Wirklichste von allem Wirklichen, dies Erbärmlichs…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Il pastore d'Islanda
2. Frog
By: Mo Yan , Howard Goldblatt
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversi… read more
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- fiction
3. 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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- science fiction fantasy
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4. Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes
By: Sakyo Komatsu
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. Make Room! Make Room!
By: Harry Harrison
3.44
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system-… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
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6. Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1)
By: Jean-Luc Bannalec
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is fou… read more
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7. Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event
By: Jeff Lemire , Dean Ormston , None
4.31
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
When a visitor from the outside world arrives on the Farm, looking for the Black Hammer and bringin… read more
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- science fiction
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- horror
8. Naomi
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Anthony H. Chambers
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoni… read more
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- japanese literature
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9. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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- thriller
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10. The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
By: Hannu Rajaniemi
4.16
Format: None pages,
Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him … read more
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11. Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
By: John Bester , Junichi Saga
3.91
Format: 24 pages,
This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life… read more
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13. Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Amelie est une jeune professeur de langues qui vit a Tokyo. Quand elle succombe a l'attention d'un … read more
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14. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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15. Heap House (Iremonger, #1)
By: Edward Carey
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items collected from … read more
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16. House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese… read more
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17. Ad Astra
By: Peter Watts , Manuel de los Reyes , Omar Moreno
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
"Ad Astra" recopila relatos del aclamado escritor de ciencia ficcion Peter Watts, especializado en … read more
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18. The Eye of Osiris
By: R. Austin Freeman
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
John Bellingham is a world-renowned archaeologist who goes missing mysteriously after returning fro… read more
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19. La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom
By: Kim Ho-yeon
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
La historia conmovedora, delicada, de un hombre que lo ha perdido todo, salvo la fuerza de encontra… read more
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20. Honeybees and Distant Thunder
By: Riku Onda
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Tender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and riv… read more
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- japanese literature
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- japan
"The highest form of human achievement was music. Human beings might have dirty, repulsive aspects to them, but out of the sordid swamp that was humanity - no, it was precisely because of this chaotic…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"Music always had to be of the now. It couldn't just be something preserved in a museum, and it was meaningless unless it was alive in the present. If you were satisfied with merely unearthing a lovel…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"What kind of job was it to be a musician? What sort of vocation was it, anyway? Vocation - that was the perfect word for it. It really was a calling, a living calling. It didn't fill your stomach, di…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"What a strange thing music was. It was just one small individual up there performing, and the notes created by those fingers were here one moment and gone the next. Yet what was there was almost the …"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
21. Le Bureau des affaires occultes
By: Eric Fouassier
3.74
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
Prix Maison de la Presse 2021 "LE roman historique de l'année. Vous ne le lâcherez pas." Gérard Co… read more
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22. El niño
By: Fernando Aramburu
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Un accidente real en el País Vasco de los años ochenta, la vida devastada de una familia. Una histo… read more
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23. Tsunami Girl
By: Julian Sedgwick
4.02
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Tsunami Girl is a powerful coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Yuki Hara Jones who gets caught up in… read more
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- japan
24. The Black God's Drums
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.01
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more
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25. Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
By: Richard Preston
4.42
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever—but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a grippin… read more
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"There's not a lot of value in preparing for a war, because what happens in a war is unpredictable. But there is a lot of value in preparing for an outbreak, because what happens in an outbreak is pre…"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
"By now, the warriors who stand at the gates of the virosphere understand that they face a long struggle against formidable enemies. Many of their weapons will fail, but some will begin to work. The h…"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
"The Ebola war wasn't won with modern medicine. It was a medieval war, and it went down as a brutal engagement between ordinary people and a life form that was trying to use the human body as a means …"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
26. World Quake (World Quake Trilogy #1)
By: Mark Hobson
4.14
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
It was a day like any other. People setting out on the commute to work or taking the kids to school… read more
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27. Penguin Highway
By: Tomihiko Morimi
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
I may only be in fourth grade, but I know more than most adults. I take notes every day and read al… read more
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28. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
29. Gris
By: Carlos Sisí
3.80
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
El Doctor Chase Ward, el astrofísico más reputado de toda la comunidad científica, recibe una visit… read more
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30. L'impossible retour
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.81
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
"Tout retour est impossible, l'amour le plus absolu n'en donne pas la clé." read more
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31. Takarabune
By: Sabino Cabeza Abuín
3.73
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Del ganador del Premio Minotauro 2020. Thorion es ingeniero a bordo de la Takarabune, una nave cuna… read more
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