The Origins of Science Fiction: From Mary Shelley to W. E. B. Du Bois
By: Michael Newton
4.46
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike al…
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1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.91
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more
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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
2. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
3. The Eye of the Heron
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Virginia Kidd
3.80
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwell… read more
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"Violence gains nothing, killing wins nothing—only sometimes nothing is what people want. Death is what they want. And they get it."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron
"And so, because he won't let himself be hurt, he does wrong to those he loves best. And then he sees that, and after all, it hurts him."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron
"The wind and light on rock top hill and his voice and the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been and that would not be. That should be and were not becau…"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron
"I like men very much, but sometimes ... they're so stupid, so stuffed with theories .... They go in straight lines only, and won't stop. It's dangerous to do that. It's dangerous to leave everything …"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron
4. Ecotopia
By: Ernest Callenbach
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the enviro… read more
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5. Rosemary's Baby
By: Ira Levin
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more
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6. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)
By: China Miéville
3.80
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more
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- science fiction
7. Concrete Island
By: J.G. Ballard
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over th… read more
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8. Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls
By: Scott Snyder , Greg Capullo , Jonathan Glapion
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these cri… read more
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"Alfred Pennyworth. Caretaker, Wayne Estate. Access Level: Highest."-Scott Snyder, Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls
"When circumstances are challenging or frightening, asking ourselves what our city "is" is pointless. Because all we will see when we look around at the buildings and streets, will be our own fears, o…"-Scott Snyder, Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls
9. The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Henry James , Rudyard Kipling , Various , Ambrose Bierce , Charles Dickens , Edith Wharton , Lafcadio Hearn , Elizabeth Gaskell , M.R. James , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Mrs. Oliphant , W.W. Jacobs , Michael Newton , Mary Hunter Austin , Mary Elizabeth Braddon , Fitz-James O'Brien , Amelia B. Edwards
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... … read more
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10. Victorian Fairy Tales
By: Michael Newton
3.10
Format: 151 pages, Hardcover
The Victorian fascination with fairyland is reflected in the literature of the period, which includ… read more
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- short stories
11. Batman: Hush
By: Jim Lee , Jeph Loeb , Scott Williams , Alex Sinclair , Richard Starkings
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
BATMAN: HUSH is a thrilling mystery of action, intrigue, and deception penned by Jeph Loeb (BATMAN:… read more
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12. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (The Dark Knight Saga, #1)
By: Frank Miller , Klaus Janson , Lynn Varley
4.32
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker… read more
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13. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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14. The Ballad of Beta 2
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Centuries ago, the Star Folk had left Earth on twelve spaceships on a generations-long mission to c… read more
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15. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
17. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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18. What Maisie Knew
By: Henry James , Paul Theroux , Patricia Crick
4.07
Format: 248 pages,
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feather… read more
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19. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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20. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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21. Omeros
By: Derek Walcott
4.38
Format: 83 pages,
A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which sim… read more
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22. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (Victorian Batman,#1-2)
By: Mike Mignola , Robert Bloch , P. Craig Russell , Brian Augustyn , Eduardo Barreto
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Presenting for the first time the adventures of the Victorian Era Batman in one 112-page edition! T… read more
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23. The Hollow Places
By: T. Kingfisher
3.80
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in thi… read more
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"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"We had passed close in space, but separated by far too much time to make a difference."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
24. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)
By: M.R. Carey
4.17
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more
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25. For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
By: Hannah F. Whitten
3.61
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
The first daughter is for the Throne. The second daughter is for the Wolf. As the only Second… read more
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"Foolish men are easy to rule."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
"She was going into the Wilderwood to save everyone she loved from herself."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
"Sometimes you don't mourn people so much as you mourn who they could've been."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
"Because monsters are real," she said. "And even the Wolf needs help sometimes."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
26. Near the Bone
By: Christina Henry
3.72
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducin… read more
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"They were all willing to believe in the existence of an animal they'd never seen before but they weren't willing to believe it could think and reason."-Christina Henry, Near the Bone
27. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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28. The Origins of Science Fiction: From Mary Shelley to W. E. B. Du Bois
By: Michael Newton
4.46
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike al… read more
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- short stories
