15 Top fiction books like Ruination by Katie Jean Shinkle

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Ruination

By: Katie Jean Shinkle

4.16

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Katie Jean Shinkle is our new master writer of the nightmare. In Ruination she has created a classi…

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Cover of Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks

1. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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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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"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

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

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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3. Roadside Picnic

By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more

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"Keep your head high,"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

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4. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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5. The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick

3.60

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more

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"Don’t you feel it?"

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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6. Two Serious Ladies

By: Jane Bowles

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfiel… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more

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Cover of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud, Thomas Teal, Sophia Jansson

8. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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  • fiction
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9. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon

3.90

Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven sto… read more

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"I have no mouth. And I must scream..."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot"

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

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10. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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11. We Who Are About To...

By: Joanna Russ

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an u… read more

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12. The Inverted World

By: Christopher Priest

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Camp Concentration

By: Thomas M. Disch

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Louis Sacchetti is a poet and pacifist imprisoned for refusing to enlist in the war against Third W… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Book of Skulls

By: Robert Silverberg

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, colleg… read more

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  • fiction
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15. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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  • fiction

16. Bad Brains

By: Kathe Koja

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that… read more

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17. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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18. The Sword of Rhiannon

By: Leigh Brackett

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Greed pulls the archaeologist Matt Carse into the forgotten tomb of the Martian god Rhiannon and pl… read more

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19. Midnights (Artist/Poet Collaboration Series)

By: Jane Miller

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Poet Jane Miller collaborates with artist Beverly Pepper on a highly personal journey through the d… read more

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  • poetry
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20. Ruination

By: Katie Jean Shinkle

4.16

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Katie Jean Shinkle is our new master writer of the nightmare. In Ruination she has created a classi… read more

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  • poetry
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7 Best nonfiction books like The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

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Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

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Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Transform Your Habits

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Olivia Laing

4.01

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