The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
By: Ann VanderMeer
3.75
Format: 896 pages, Paperback
From Ann and Jeff VanderMeer comes The Big Book of Modern Fantasy a true horde of tales sure to de…
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1. Occultation and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.08
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more
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- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
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- fantasy
2. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
By: Laird Barron
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more
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- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
3. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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- science fiction
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"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
4. Knight's Shadow (Greatcoats, #2)
By: Sebastien de Castell
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Following his beloved debut, Traitor's Blade, Sebastien de Castell returns with volume two of his f… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
5. Old Nathan
By: David Drake
3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
The forces of evil are poised to prey on the folk of the hamlets and hollows: witches, demons, and … read more
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- science fiction
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6. Mongrels
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on t… read more
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7. Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)
By: Michael Moorcock
3.90
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders i… read more
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8. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By: Mark Twain
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more
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9. Meddling Kids
By: Edgar Cantero
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small … read more
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10. Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who … read more
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- science fiction
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- fantasy
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"Cheris, people are very simple,"-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"Taking away people’s names denied their power"-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"But then, war is about taking the future away from people."-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"Immortality was like sex: it made idiots of otherwise rational people."-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
11. Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday
By: Guy de Maupassant , Hans Christian Andersen , H.G. Wells , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Rudyard Kipling , J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Ambrose Bierce , Charles Dickens , Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Edgar Allan Poe , E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ivan Turgenev , Italo Calvino , Honoré de Balzac , Jean Lorrain , Walter Scott , Nikolai Gogol , Vernon Lee , Joseph von Eichendorff , Jan Potocki , Nikolai Leskov , Gérard de Nerval , Théophile Gautier , Prosper Mérimée , None
4.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo… read more
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12. 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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- science fiction
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- fantasy
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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)
13. Eclipse the Moon (Starlight's Shadow, #2)
By: Jessie Mihalik
3.94
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Kee Ildez has been many things: hacker, soldier, bounty hunter. She never expected to be a hero, bu… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
14. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
By: Ann Leckie
3.65
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- short stories
15. Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery
By: Christopher Golden
3.67
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Ke… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- anthologies
16. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer
By: Garth Nix
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
17. The Kingdoms
By: Natasha Pulley
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
18. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
19. Lost Places
By: Sarah Pinsker
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new collection from the author of Nebula Award winning A Song for a New Day and Philip K Dick Awa… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
20. Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.05
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"We’re in How-It-Was class."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"Buy One Get One stops for no one."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
21. The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
By: Ann VanderMeer
3.75
Format: 896 pages, Paperback
From Ann and Jeff VanderMeer comes The Big Book of Modern Fantasy a true horde of tales sure to de… read more
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