6 must-read mystery books like Ghosts of Empire: A Ghost Novel by George Mann

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Ghosts of Empire: A Ghost Novel

By: George Mann

4.03

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the events seen in Ghosts of Karnak, and with the political climate somewhat ea…

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1. The Eyes of the Dragon

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons… ​Thus begins one of the most u… read more

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  • thriller
"Never will you talk to me like that again."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"Sleep is often denied to those with secrets."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

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2. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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3. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

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4. Armadale

By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more

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  • mystery
"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

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5. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

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  • science fiction
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6. Kings of the Wyld (The Band, #1)

By: Nicholas Eames

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Glory never gets old Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best -- the meanest, dirtie… read more

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7. Conqueror (Conqueror, #5)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

From a young scholar to one of history's most powerful warriors, this novel tells the story of Kubl… read more

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8. A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4)

By: Jodi Taylor

4.32

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

St Mary’s is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicle… read more

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  • science fiction
"There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it's needed."

-Jodi Taylor, A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4)

"Typical St Mary’s. When the chips are down we don’t whine and we don’t run – we do some damage."

-Jodi Taylor, A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4)

"I personally think humans have got about as far as we can go. We're wrecking the planet. We're never short of good reasons to massacre each other. Wrong god. Wrong race. Wrong color. Wrong sex. I'm a…"

-Jodi Taylor, A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4)

9. Dracula Cha Cha Cha (Anno Dracula #3)

By: Kim Newman

4.06

Format: 368 pages,

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10. The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)

By: R.S. Belcher

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasy Nevada, 1869: Beyond the piti… read more

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11. Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for televi… read more

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12. The History of Mr. Polly

By: H.G. Wells , John Sutherland , Simon James , None

4.50

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as t… read more

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13. 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
"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)

14. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more

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15. The Vagrant (The Vagrant, #1)

By: Peter Newman

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vagrant is his name. He has no other. Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn… read more

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16. The Demon Crown (Sigma Force #13)

By: James Rollins

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Hardcover

To save mankind's future, the members of Sigma Force must make a devil's bargain as they join force… read more

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17. Ex-Purgatory (Ex-Heroes, #4)

By: Peter Clines

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

George Bailey is an ordinary guy, working the nine to five as a handyman and trying to make the bes… read more

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18. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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19. The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

By: John Gwynne

4.23

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Set in a brand-new, Norse-inspired world, and packed with myth, magic and bloody vengeance, The Sha… read more

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"Courage is being scared of a task and doing it anyway." - Ortha | Page 139"

-John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

"We are the Bloodsworn, closer than kin. A brotherhood, a sisterhood: we live and die together."

-John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

"Los dioses Orna y Ulfrir habían encontrado a su primogénita muerta, con las alas arrancadas. Lo había hecho Lik-Rifa, la diosa dragón, la propia hermana de Orna. Como venganza, Orna y Ulfrir persigui…"

-John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

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20. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.20

Format: 596 pages, ebook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more

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  • science fiction
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21. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7) by Ben Aaronovitch

22. Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.24

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Join Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, for a brand new case . . . Martin Chorley, ak… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • crime
  • mystery
"A sense of powerlessness can seriously exacerbate stress,"

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

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23. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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  • science fiction
"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

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24. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more

Similar categories in C.K. McDonnell's The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1) book and George Mann's Ghosts of Empire: A Ghost Novel

  • urban fantasy
  • crime
  • mystery
Cover of Big Damn Hero (Firefly, #1) by James Lovegrove

25. Big Damn Hero (Firefly, #1)

By: James Lovegrove

3.81

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from cr… read more

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  • science fiction
"When chaos loomed, reason and accountability went out of the window."

-James Lovegrove, Big Damn Hero (Firefly, #1)

"The HTX-20 isn't' supposed to explode unless it gets bumped around too much. Right, Badger?" Mal pressed. "That's right. Or gets wet or hot or all that other gubbins. We went over it, didn't we? You …"

-James Lovegrove, Big Damn Hero (Firefly, #1)

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26. The Body

By: Stephen King

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke."

-Stephen King, The Body

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27. Ghosts of Empire: A Ghost Novel

By: George Mann

4.03

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the events seen in Ghosts of Karnak, and with the political climate somewhat ea… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • pulp
  • superheroes
  • alternate history
  • steampunk
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • science fiction

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4.32

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