11 Top science fiction books like The Darkest of Nights (British Library Science Fiction Classics Book 6) by Charles Eric Maine

Cover of The Darkest of Nights (British Library Science Fiction Classics Book 6) by Charles Eric Maine

The Darkest of Nights (British Library Science Fiction Classics Book 6)

By: Charles Eric Maine

3.40

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly plague engulfs East Asia - the rest of the world's governments look on callously, until th…

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Cover of The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2) by Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson

1. The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)

By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.72

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Second in the Kurt Wallander series. Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"one must occasionally stand the world on its head in order to put it on its feet."

-Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)

"Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost."

-Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)

"He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god."

-Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)

"He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life."

-Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)

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2. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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3. Wild Harbour

By: None , Ian MacPherson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare … read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)

By: Jack Campbell

3.77

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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5. Alas, Babylon

By: Pat Frank

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United … read more

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  • science fiction
  • apocalyptic
  • classics
  • fiction
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6. City

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1) by Henning Mankell, Steven T. Murray

7. Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1)

By: Henning Mankell , Steven T. Murray

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction

8. The Man Who Fell to Earth

By: Walter Tevis

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more

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9. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.90

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"Teach me to speak the language of men."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

10. Lud-in-the-Mist

By: Neil Gaiman , Hope Mirrlees , Douglas A. Anderson

4.43

Format: 269 pages,

Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two… read more

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Cover of The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

11. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

12. The Intuitionist

By: Colson Whitehead

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first n… read more

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13. Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)

By: Val McDermid

4.21

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller th… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. S…"

-Val McDermid, Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)

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14. Death in White Pyjamas / Death Knows No Calendar

By: John Bude

3.75

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder Two mysteries of the kind John Bude does… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction by Mike Ashley

15. Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction

By: Mike Ashley

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories of ecological disaster have been a long-term science fiction trend, but are finding new rel… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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16. The Question Mark

By: Muriel Jaeger

3.32

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1926 Muriel Jaeger, dissatisfied with the Utopian visions of H G Wells and Edward Bellamy, set o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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17. Polar Horrors: Strange Tales from the World’s Ends

By: John Miller

3.46

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by ground-breaking expeditions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers of… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Darkest of Nights (British Library Science Fiction Classics Book 6) by Charles Eric Maine

18. The Darkest of Nights (British Library Science Fiction Classics Book 6)

By: Charles Eric Maine

3.40

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly plague engulfs East Asia - the rest of the world's governments look on callously, until th… read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • classics
  • medical
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
Cover of The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes by Mike Ashley

19. The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes

By: Mike Ashley

3.79

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • classics
Cover of Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond by Mike Ashley

20. Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond

By: Mike Ashley

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The fact that humanity is not alone in the universe has long preoccupied our thoughts. In this comp… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
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21. Spaceworlds: Stories of Life in the Void

By: Mike Ashley

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Astronauts constructing a new space station must avert destruction from a missile sent by an unknow… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

16 best-selling fiction books like The Darkest of Nights (British Library Science Fiction Classics Book 6) by Charles Eric Maine

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The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)

Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Joan Lindsay

3.67

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Wild Harbour

None , Ian MacPherson

3.40

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Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)

Jack Campbell

3.77

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23 best-selling fiction books like Death in White Pyjamas / Death Knows No Calendar by John Bude

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Mystery in White

Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.38

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Antidote to Venom

Freeman Wills Crofts

3.63

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Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

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The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

Carter Dickson

3.66

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