15 must-read fiction books like Nothing Short of Magic by Alexander Enders

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Nothing Short of Magic

By: Alexander Enders

4.54

Format: 550 pages, Kindle Edition

Automobiles. Refrigerators. Wal-Mart. Even things as mundane as running water and umbrellas. Benjam…

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1. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

By: Erik Larson

4.05

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more

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"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

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2. Way Station

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.03

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more

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"Delectable,"

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

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3. The Windup Girl

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager… read more

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Cover of Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) by Ken Liu, Liu Cixin

4. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.42

Format: 604 pages, Hardcover

With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more

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"Time is the cruelest force of all."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

5. Letters from Yellowstone

By: None

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram--a spirited young woman with a love for botany--i… read more

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6. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

By: None

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who d… read more

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7. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, follow… read more

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8. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

By: None , Becky Chambers

4.12

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more

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"We're our own warning."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"If you never leave, you'll always wonder.  You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

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9. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more

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"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

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10. The Anomaly

By: Hervé Le Tellier

3.81

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more

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"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Aimer évite au moins de chercher sans cesse un sens à sa vie."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

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11. The First Ladies

By: Marie Benedict

4.04

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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13. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

By: Becky Chambers

None

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1) by Jonas Jonasson

14. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.82

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his la… read more

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"Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"There are undoubtedly advantages to being dead, said Julius."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties,"

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"Les choses sont ce qu'elles sont et elles seront ce qu'elles seront."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

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15. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more

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"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

Cover of How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1) by Hazel Prior

16. How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

By: Hazel Prior

4.10

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's… read more

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"It's been a very long time since I've had an adventure."

-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

"I have no wish to talk about the manifold tragedies of my life."

-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

"Like her harshness was a kind of coat she wrapped tightly round herself so nobody could see what was underneath."

-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

"Because at this moment there is pain, intense and merciless. It seeps in and out of my body’s pores, claws at my lungs and sears into every pocket of my heart like burning acid."

-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

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17. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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18. You Slept Where? Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman

By: Brenda Prater Sellers

4.91

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

As a little girl, author Brenda Prater Sellers traipsed around Prater Flats in Louisville, Tennesse… read more

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19. Nothing Short of Magic

By: Alexander Enders

4.54

Format: 550 pages, Kindle Edition

Automobiles. Refrigerators. Wal-Mart. Even things as mundane as running water and umbrellas. Benjam… read more

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20. The Rain: The Story of Horst

By: Bill Barbour

4.67

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Horst Bergmann was fifteen in 1943 when he was drafted into the German army. He survived World War … read more

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21. Our LITTLE Secret: A Smoky Mountains Family Saga and Coming of Age Story Inspired by True Crimes

By: Stanford Johnson

4.23

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

"Captivating, suspenseful & raw. An accurate depiction of life during that time. Incredible!"When D… read more

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22. Antonio’s Story: Coming of Age on the Battlefields of WW II

By: Linda Buzzeo Best

4.86

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In 1938 amid the buildup to world war, seventeen-year-old Antonio leaves Mussolini's Italy for the … read more

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23. Choosing Family: Book Five in the Boone Series

By: Jim Hartsell

5.00

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

After a month at home from his travels, Boone is ready for another trip. On his way to visit some f… read more

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