6 best-selling history books like Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership by Stu Horvath

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Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership

By: Stu Horvath

4.73

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

A richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games. When Gary Gy…

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1. Agent of the Imperium: A Story of the Traveller Universe

By: Marc W. Miller

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of… read more

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2. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more

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"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

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3. The Dunwich Horror

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strang… read more

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4. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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5. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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6. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

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7. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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8. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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9. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

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10. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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11. Do a Powerbomb!

By: Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the… read more

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12. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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13. The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

By: Matt Ruff

3.94

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”— … read more

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14. Vermis, Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods (Vermis, #1)

By: Plastiboo

4.65

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"Vermis I" is the first of an artbook series by the artist Plastiboo. A pure act of world-buildi… read more

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15. Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

By: Ben Riggs

3.97

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Role-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR ― the company that unleashe… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • role playing games
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16. Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories)

By: Jon Peterson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running le… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) by Emil Ferris

17. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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18. Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop

By: Ian Livingstone

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

It never seems like the right time to start a business. The idea to start our own company first cro… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • role playing games
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19. CY_BORG

By: Christian Sahlén

4.56

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Nano-infested doomsday RPG about cybernetic misfits and punks raging against a relentless corporate… read more

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20. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more

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"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

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21. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more

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Cover of So You Want to Be a Game Master?: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure—For Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder and Other Systems by Justin  Alexander

22. So You Want to Be a Game Master?: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure—For Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder and Other Systems

By: Justin Alexander

4.45

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

USA Today Bestselling Book ENNIE Award-nominated More people than ever are discovering Dungeons… read more

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23. Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)

By: Michael Moorcock

4.32

Format: 851 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award–winner Michael Moorcock comes the second installment … read more

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"It only seems complicated because it is strange,' Corum said. 'Your world would doubtless seem incomprehensible to me of I were suddenly flung into it."

-Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)

Cover of The Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying: Guidelines and Strategies for Running PC-Driven Narratives in 5E Adventures by Jonah Fishel

24. The Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying: Guidelines and Strategies for Running PC-Driven Narratives in 5E Adventures

By: Jonah Fishel

4.34

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Introducing the first book in The Game Master's new " Handbook " series! Is your roleplaying in … read more

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Cover of Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership by Stu Horvath

25. Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership

By: Stu Horvath

4.73

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

A richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games. When Gary Gy… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Cover of From Ants to Zombies: Six Decades Of Video Game Horror by Bitmap Books

26. From Ants to Zombies: Six Decades Of Video Game Horror

By: Bitmap Books

4.21

Format: 664 pages, Hardcover

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27. Playing at the World, Vol. 1: The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons

By: Jon Peterson

4.44

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which char… read more

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28. The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Guide: Advice and Tools to Help You Run Your Best Game Ever! (Ultimate Role Playing Game Series)

By: James D’Amato

3.73

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

Up your game with everything you need to run your next tabletop roleplay game with expert advice, g… read more

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29. Defining a Galaxy

By: Bill Slavicsek

4.39

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

In the late 1980s, Star Wars was becoming a fading memory. The movie trilogy had concluded. The com… read more

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30. Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons

By: Premeet Sidhu

3.75

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

On the fiftieth anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons , a collection of essays that explores and celebr… read more

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Cover of Weird Walk: Issue One - Beltane 2019 by Alex Hornsby

31. Weird Walk: Issue One - Beltane 2019

By: Alex Hornsby

4.31

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

40 page A5 zine Printed on high quality recycled stock Contains magick What is Weird Walk? It … read more

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10 Best nonfiction books like Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership by Stu Horvath

Transform Your Habits

Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

Ben Riggs

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories)

Jon Peterson

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop

Ian Livingstone

4.11

Transform Your Habits

So You Want to Be a Game Master?: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure—For Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder and Other Systems

Justin Alexander

4.45

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11 Top fiction books like Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2) by Michael Moorcock

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The Cold Commands (A Land Fit for Heroes, #2)

Richard K. Morgan

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Injustice: Gods Among Us - Year One

Various , Tom Taylor , Jheremy Raapack

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

Mark Lawrence

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Into the Narrowdark (The Last King of Osten Ard, #3)

Tad Williams

4.54

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