18 best-selling fiction books like Above the Ether by Eric Barnes

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Above the Ether

By: Eric Barnes

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Here is a mesmerizing novel of unfolding dystopia amid the effects of climate change in a world ver…

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Cover of The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 by Lionel Shriver

1. The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

By: Lionel Shriver

3.70

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2029, and nothing is as it should be. The very essence of American life, the dollar, is… read more

Similar categories in Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
"Economics doesn't reward nice. It rewards smart."

-Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

"Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested."

-Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

"They still want credit for being tolerant, without taking the rap for the fact that you only ‘tolerate’ what you can’t stand."

-Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

"What do you make of the proposition that the definition of a truly free society is a place where you can still get away with something?"

-Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

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2. Moonglow

By: Michael Chabon

3.80

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon… read more

Similar categories in Michael Chabon's Moonglow book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • fiction
"...When were they happy?" "In the cracks?" I said. "In the cracks."

-Michael Chabon, Moonglow

"He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own."

-Michael Chabon, Moonglow

"She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work."

-Michael Chabon, Moonglow

"I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it."

-Michael Chabon, Moonglow

Cover of Guardian Angel (V.I. Warshawski, #7) by Sara Paretsky

3. Guardian Angel (V.I. Warshawski, #7)

By: Sara Paretsky

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Racine Avenue is going upscale—bad news for hand-to-mouth residents like V I Warshawski. As tax bil… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

4. All Our Wrong Todays

By: Elan Mastai

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's… read more

Similar categories in Elan Mastai's All Our Wrong Todays book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"You believe what you do."

-Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

"For just a moment I had a home. It was the size of one cell but that was enough to fit in all I ever wanted."

-Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

"It was both the greatest kiss of my life and also made me feel like until that moment I’d been kissing all wrong."

-Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

"Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else's dreams."

-Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

Cover of Tomorrow's Kin (Yesterday's Kin Trilogy, #1) by Nancy Kress

5. Tomorrow's Kin (Yesterday's Kin Trilogy, #1)

By: Nancy Kress

4.10

Format: 271 pages,

Tomorrow's Kinis the first volume in and all new hard SF trilogy by Nancy Kress based on the Nebula… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Kress's Tomorrow's Kin (Yesterday's Kin Trilogy, #1) book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. The Islanders

By: Christopher Priest

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

Reality is illusory and magical in the stunning new literary SF novel from the multiple award-winni… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Priest's The Islanders book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

7. The Harrows of Spring (World Made by Hand #4)

By: James Howard Kunstler

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

From renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, The Harro… read more

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8. The Fold

By: Peter Clines

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

STEP INTO THE FOLD. IT'S PERFECTLY SAFE. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would s… read more

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9. The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. A world where ov… read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1) book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"People will do what they got to do to be together. But it's the being together that matters more than the rules or the place."

-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

"I don't like people very much. I'm all in favour of them as a concept, but I don't get on with them at all when I have to mix with them."

-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

"I learned since then, and paid a price to learn, it that them as laid claim to great wisdom most often got nothing in their store but bare scrapings. And by the same token, them as think they're igno…"

-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

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10. Last One at the Party

By: Bethany Clift

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

It's November 2023. The human race has been wiped out by the 6DM virus (Six Days Maximum - the long… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Clift's Last One at the Party book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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11. Fear: Trump in the White House

By: Bob Woodward

3.87

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodw… read more

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"He’s a fucking moron,"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"When Trump called Mexicans “rapists"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats," Graham said. The good news is they come cheap."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

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12. Flyaway

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.56

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories."

-Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

Cover of Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0) by C. Robert Cargill

13. Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0)

By: C. Robert Cargill

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this apocalyptic adventure C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between h… read more

Similar categories in C. Robert Cargill's Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0) book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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14. The Loop

By: Jeremy Robert Johnson

3.41

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Stranger Things meets World War Z in this heart-racing conspiracy thriller as a lonely young woman … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Robert Johnson's The Loop book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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15. The End of October

By: Lawrence Wright

3.76

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

In this medical thriller Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origi… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Wright's The End of October book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • apocalyptic
  • fiction
"Those laboratory animals have done us no harm. They are tortured and murdered in the name of science. I know, I used to do it myself to my great shame. Is the benefit to humanity worth the sacrifice …"

-Lawrence Wright, The End of October

"By now night had fully occupied the sky, which was splattered with stars that seemed merely a few feet away. "I can see why religions are born in the desert," Henry said. "Yes, we have this problem,"…"

-Lawrence Wright, The End of October

"Both sides had entered the war already weakened by the disease, and just as in 1918, armies propagated the contagion. Hospitals, already overfilled by flu victims, were unable to treat more than a fr…"

-Lawrence Wright, The End of October

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16. A Beginning at the End

By: Mike Chen

3.51

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

How do you start over after the end of the world? Six years after a global pandemic wiped out mo… read more

Similar categories in Mike Chen's A Beginning at the End book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"See, relations are people with the same blood. But family, that's different. Family is about who gives you hope, who gets involved. And earns the right for forgiveness. Or at least starts down the pa…"

-Mike Chen, A Beginning at the End

"As a community, we still emphasized the importance of familial ties but finally understood that the definition of family wasn't about blood or even who or what you'd lost. It was about what gave you …"

-Mike Chen, A Beginning at the End

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17. The Bright Lands

By: John Fram

3.41

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback… read more

Similar categories in John Fram's The Bright Lands book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • fiction
Cover of Version Zero by David  Yoon

18. Version Zero

By: David Yoon

3.36

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the brilliant mind of New York Times best-selling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Above the Ether by Eric Barnes

19. Above the Ether

By: Eric Barnes

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Here is a mesmerizing novel of unfolding dystopia amid the effects of climate change in a world ver… read more

Similar categories in Eric Barnes's Above the Ether book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • climate change fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 by Jonathan Strahan

20. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7

By: Jonathan Strahan

3.71

Format: 642 pages, Kindle Edition

In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of aston… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of City Under the Stars by Gardner Dozois

21. City Under the Stars

By: Gardner Dozois

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

City Under the Stars completes a journey undertaken by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick 25 years… read more

Similar categories in Gardner Dozois's City Under the Stars book and Eric Barnes's Above the Ether

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction

11 Best fantasy books like Above the Ether by Eric Barnes

Transform Your Habits

All Our Wrong Todays

Elan Mastai

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow's Kin (Yesterday's Kin Trilogy, #1)

Nancy Kress

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Islanders

Christopher Priest

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

M.R. Carey

4.01

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15 Best fiction books like The Islanders by Christopher Priest

Transform Your Habits

Ice

Anna Kavan

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

David Brin

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Reader and Raelynx (Twelve Houses, #4)

Sharon Shinn

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Fortune and Fate (Twelve Houses, #5)

Sharon Shinn

4.29

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