Unsound Variations
By: George R.R. Martin
4.21
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
"Unsound Variations" is George R.R. Martin's chess story. This story was also published in Por…
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1. Eaters of the Dead
By: Michael Crichton
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back… read more
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"تتوقف الأشياء الغربية عن أن تكون كذلك بفعل التكرار"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"ليس هناك والله خوف أعظم نت خوف الانسان حين لا يعرف السبب"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"...thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition."-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
2. Rage
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.73
Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the res… read more
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"Be'…"-Stephen King, Rage
"You’re on, Ted,"-Stephen King, Rage
"That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield."-Stephen King, Rage
"If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to."-Stephen King, Rage
3. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.47
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Brandon Sanderson creates worlds, and those worlds are linked. His universe spans the Stormlight Ar… read more
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"Wow! I hate you already."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"It was like saying that a man drowning in beer was better off than one drowning in acid."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"She hated dreams. They either showed her a life she couldn't have, or a life that terrified her."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"People," Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elemen…"-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
4. Roadwork
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Barton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway c… read more
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"Wimmern war die letzte Zuflucht unbedeutender Männer."-Stephen King, Roadwork
"The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took."-Stephen King, Roadwork
"Das Leben schien nur eine Vorbereitung auf die Hölle zu sein."-Stephen King, Roadwork
"Haben Sie in meiner Nase gebohrt, als ich nicht hingesehen habe?"-Stephen King, Roadwork
5. Apt Pupil
By: Stephen King
3.92
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a dif… read more
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"What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends."-Stephen King, Apt Pupil
"Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they douse screaming children and old women in burning napalm. …"-Stephen King, Apt Pupil
6. Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.17
Format: 50 pages,
Originally appearing in the Dangerous Women anthology and now available as a solo ebook, Shadows fo… read more
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"Hush now, my dear one... be not afraid. Night comes upon us, but sunlight will break. Sleep now, my dear one... let your tears fade. Darkness surrounds us, but someday we'll wake...."-Brandon Sanderson, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
"What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?" "It would take a miracle,obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence."-Brandon Sanderson, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
7. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
By: John Steinbeck
4.06
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more
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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
8. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
9. The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more
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- short stories
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10. Wizard and Glass
By: Stephen King , Dave McKean
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Roland of Gilead and his fellow pilgrims determine to reach the Dark Tower, but their quest is rife… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
11. Insomnia
By: Stephen King , Bettina Blanch Tyroller
3.94
Format: None pages,
Ralph Roberts, a sus setenta anos y tras la muerte de su mujer, siente que su vida se acaba. ?Es ac… read more
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12. The Children of Húrin
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more
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13. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
14. Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
By: Thomas Harris
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Years after his escape, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal… read more
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16. The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn, #0.5)
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.95
Format: 128 pages, ebook
Also available in . "This story was written specifically for the Mistborn Adventure Game, a tablet… read more
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17. Sixth of the Dusk
By: Brandon Sanderson
5.00
Format: 64 pages,
A fascinating new novella in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, the universe shared by his Mistborn serie… read more
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18. The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
By: Stephen King , Peter Straub
4.12
Format: 652 pages,
On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a sile… read more
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19. Lisey's Story
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages,
Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, s… read more
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20. Different Seasons
By: Stephen King
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound t… read more
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21. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
By: Stephen King
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
A man convicted of murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by… read more
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22. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
23. Meathouse Man
By: George R.R. Martin , Raya Golden
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on the short story by George R.R. Martin, bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, Meathouse … read more
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24. The Hope of Elantris (Elantris, #1.5)
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.26
Format: None pages, ebook
The following is a short story I wrote in theElantris world back in January of 2006. At that point,… read more
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25. Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania
By: Brandon Sanderson
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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26. Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)
By: Andrzej Sapkowski
3.97
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games. Geralt of Rivia. A … read more
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"O medo nunca é irracional."-Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)
"É preciso comprovar a culpa, e não a inocência."-Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)
"O provérbio diz: a quem mal vive, o medo o segue."-Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)
"Zwykłość zaś równa się nijakość, a nijakość to taniość."-Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)
27. Beren and Lúthien
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.04
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmaril… read more
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"And then he turned, and did not weep: too dark his heart, the wound too deep."-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien
"Thou smellest of dog, and what news of good came ever to a cat from a fairy that had had dealings with the dogs?"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien
"Rivers of fire at dead of night in winter lying cold and white upon the plain burst forth, and high the red was mirrored in the sky."-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien
"The slow time passed. Then in the gloom two eyes there glowed. He saw his doom, Beren, silent, as his bonds he strained beyond mortal might enchained. Lo! sudden there was rending sound of chains tha…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien
28. 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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"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
29. 1979 Short Stories (Study Guide): The Way of Cross and Dragon
By: Books LLC
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book cl… read more
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30. The Adventure of The Second Stain - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.68
Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition
'The Adventure of The Second Stain' is a Sherlock Holmes short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Do… read more
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31. Unsound Variations
By: George R.R. Martin
4.21
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
"Unsound Variations" is George R.R. Martin's chess story. This story was also published in Por… read more
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