12 must-read fiction books like Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine by R.A. Lafferty

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Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

By: R.A. Lafferty

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Hardcover with dustjacket, 1st edition. Lafferty has a unique voice,…

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1. 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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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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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2. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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3. Soldier of the Mist (Latro, #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

3.95

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Gene Wolfe has turned to the fantastic historical world of Greece, in 479 B.C., when the gods walke… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun #4)

By: Gene Wolfe

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, a journey as fraught wit… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

5. The Anubis Gates

By: Tim Powers

3.93

Format: None pages,

Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, relu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Soldier of Arete (Latro, #2)

By: Gene Wolfe

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

Of all mortals, Latro was the least favoured - or the most. The wound that had destroyed his memory… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

7. The Plains

By: Gerald Murnane

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fiction. Born in Melbourne, Austrailia, in 1939, Gerald Murnane recently retired as the senior lect… read more

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8. 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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9. The Sword of the Lictor

By: Gene Wolfe

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the dying sun the disgraced torturer, Severian, at last comes to his place of exile - Thrax… read more

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10. 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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11. In Parenthesis

By: T.S. Eliot , W.S. Merwin , David Jones

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David J… read more

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12. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

13. Babette's Feast

By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious siste… read more

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14. Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades… read more

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15. The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun, #5)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe's four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to … read more

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16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

17. Soldier of Sidon

By: Gene Wolfe

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his jou… read more

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18. The Street of Crocodiles

By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

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19. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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20. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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21. Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

By: R.A. Lafferty

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Hardcover with dustjacket, 1st edition. Lafferty has a unique voice,… read more

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  • fiction

10 Top fantasy books like Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine by R.A. Lafferty

Transform Your Habits

Descent into Hell

Charles Williams , Charles Williams

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Soldier of the Mist (Latro, #1)

Gene Wolfe

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun #4)

Gene Wolfe

5.00

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14 best-selling novels books like 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke

Transform Your Habits

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

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The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

Isaac Asimov

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

3.92

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