Speculative Los Angeles
By: Denise Hamilton
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, an…
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1. The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
By: Jasper Fforde
3.89
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected p… read more
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- mystery
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"Mücken haben die blaue Ziege gestochen."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
2. The Long and Faraway Gone
By: Lou Berney
3.98
Format: 454 pages, Paperback
With the compelling narrative tension and psychological complexity of the works of Laura Lippman, D… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"That’s the problem with the world,"-Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone
"The sun dropped beneath the horizon and then detonated, torching the racks of clouds stacked up above the downtown skyline. Wyatt had forgotten how quickly, in the vast empty sky of the southern plai…"-Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone
3. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
By: Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry
4.06
Format: 687 pages, Paperback
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one … read more
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- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"Deciding that his own life expectancy was directly proportional to his usefulness to Manson, Crockett made himself very useful, volunteering his truck to haul in supplies, and so forth."-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in the…"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor …"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"The next morning Shinn asked for a continuance. Being in a strange bed, and an even stranger place, he hadn't slept well the night before, and he didn't eel he could effectively defend his client. Th…"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
4. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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5. Binti (Binti, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.95
Format: 145 pages, ebook
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more
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6. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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- audiobook
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
7. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more
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- audiobook
- crime
- fiction
- mystery
- speculative fiction
- science fiction
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
8. You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1)
By: Cat Rambo
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Farscape meets The Great British Bake Off in this fantastic space opera You Sexy Thing from former … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
9. 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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- dystopia
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
- science fiction
"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)
10. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
11. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
12. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
13. The Spare Man
By: Mary Robinette Kowal
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- crime
- science fiction
- audiobook
14. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
15. Five Decembers
By: James Kestrel
4.43
Format: 429 pages, Hardcover
December 1941: America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe M… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Aishitemasu"-James Kestrel, Five Decembers
"It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong."-James Kestrel, Five Decembers
16. Under Lock & Skeleton Key (Secret Staircase Mystery, #1)
By: Gigi Pandian
3.53
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-r… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
By: Cory Doctorow
3.90
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more
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- audiobook
- crime
- fiction
- mystery
- speculative fiction
- science fiction
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
18. The Local
By: Joey Hartstone
4.12
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
The Lincoln Lawyer in the land of Friday Night Lights, where a freewheeling patent attorney must ta… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Prophet
By: Sin Blaché
3.68
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- speculative fiction
- science fiction
- audiobook
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."-Sin Blaché, Prophet
20. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. Interesting Facts about Space
By: Emily R. Austin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
22. Friends in Napa
By: Sheila Yasmin Marikar
3.10
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
“Smart and wildly entertaining…like drinking a glass of wine with an endlessly witty, scandalous fr… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
23. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
24. Everybody Knows
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
- audiobook
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
25. True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
By: Danielle J. Lindemann
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its… read more
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- audiobook
"We learn about the core features of society by looking at the extremes."-Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
26. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- science fiction
- audiobook
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
27. Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
By: Maureen Ryan
3.88
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and th… read more
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- audiobook
28. The Blue, Beautiful World
By: Karen Lord
3.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
As first contact transforms the Earth, a group of gifted visionaries race to create a new future in… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
29. Ghost Lover
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.28
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
“Raw and searching...Taddeo returns with more ruthless explorations of the feminine mystique.” — En… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- audiobook
30. Speculative Los Angeles
By: Denise Hamilton
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, an… read more
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- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- speculative fiction
- science fiction
31. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
- fiction
- science fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
