9 must-read classics books like The Valis Trilogy by Philip K. Dick

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The Valis Trilogy

By: Philip K. Dick

4.00

Format: 787 pages, Kindle Edition

This e-book only edition brings together the three novels of Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy. VALIS …

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Cover of The Histories by Herodotus, Aubrey de Sélincourt, John M. Marincola

1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

2. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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3. Suttree

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.20

Format: 471 pages, Paperback

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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4. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

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5. Descent into Hell

By: Charles Williams , Charles Williams

3.93

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

The key to Williams' mystically oriented theological thought, Descent into Hell (arguably Williams'… read more

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  • classics
  • religion
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else."

-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell

", Stanhope delayed a moment behind Miss Fox to add: "The substantive, of course, governs the adjective; not the other way round." "The substantive?" Pauline asked blankly. "Good. It contains terror, …"

-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell

". Nature's so terribly good. Don't you think so, Mr. Stanhope?" Stanhope was standing by, silent, while Mrs. Parry communed with her soul and with one or two of her neighbours on the possibilities of…"

-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell

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6. Last and First Men

By: Olaf Stapledon

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared Arthur C. Clark… read more

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  • classics
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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7. Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the creators behind the ac… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"-one teebs? You mean tablespoon?" "I don't know."

-Joe Hill, Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games

"That's it? 'Damn, it smells like the fishsticks are burning and don't do that with your head, Bode?' What the fuck?"

-Joe Hill, Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games

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8. La profezia dell'armadillo

By: Zerocalcare

3.58

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Centotrentasei tavole, divise in storie brevi alla sua maniera, storielle di una o quattro/cinque p… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale, Andres Guinaldo

9. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Virtual Light (Bridge, #1) by William Gibson

10. Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself … read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction

11. The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun #2)

By: Gene Wolfe

3.78

Format: 416 pages,

Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic… read more

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12. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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13. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more

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14. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

15. The Complete Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more

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16. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"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)

17. Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

By: Roger Zelazny

3.75

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burn… read more

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18. Leviathan

By: Paul Auster

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathanwith the tearin… read more

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19. Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

By: Christopher Hitchens , Aldous Huxley

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's visio… read more

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20. The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)

By: Dan Simmons

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forev… read more

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21. Song of Kali

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages,

"O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother." It… read more

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22. The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.36

Format: 524 pages, Paperback

A fantastic starter set for new Tolkien fans or readers interested in rediscovering the magic of Mi… read more

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23. Rama II (Rama #2)

By: Arthur C. Clarke , Gentry Lee

3.70

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Rama est revenu ! Rama, ou plutôt son double, son clone, son jumeau : Rama II. Soixante-dix ans plu… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?"

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

24. La cognizione del dolore

By: Carlo Emilio Gadda

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

"La violenza autolesionista assume, nelle pagine della "Cognizione", un suono curioso. Qualsiasi de… read more

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25. Come d'aria

By: Ada D'Adamo

4.05

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Daria è la figlia, il cui destino è segnato sin dalla nascita da una mancata diagnosi. Ada è la mad… read more

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26. Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

By: Neal Stephenson

3.58

Format: 883 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns w… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts."

-Neal Stephenson, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

"Captain considered it, and shrugged. "It seems right," he said. "It is not precisely what El wanted; but enthroned as he is in his Palace, viewing the Land from a high seat, he does not see its compl…"

-Neal Stephenson, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Cover of Cassandra a Mogadiscio by Igiaba Scego

27. Cassandra a Mogadiscio

By: Igiaba Scego

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Gli occhi appannati di una ragazzina vedono la Somalia dilaniata nell’indifferenza del mondo. Oggi … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of World Engines: Destroyer by Stephen Baxter

28. World Engines: Destroyer

By: Stephen Baxter

3.82

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe by Benjamin Abelow

29. How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe

By: Benjamin Abelow

4.12

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansi… read more

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30. Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical

By: C. Pierce Salguero

3.89

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An engaging, accessible introduction to Buddhism for those who are looking to explore a new spiritu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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31. The Valis Trilogy

By: Philip K. Dick

4.00

Format: 787 pages, Kindle Edition

This e-book only edition brings together the three novels of Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy. VALIS … read more

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16 must-read fiction books like The Valis Trilogy by Philip K. Dick

Transform Your Habits

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Ice

Anna Kavan

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Descent into Hell

Charles Williams , Charles Williams

3.93

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

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The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil

Michael Malice

4.49

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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

Ilan Pappé

4.35

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