Kindred / Fledgling / Collected Stories
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.55
Format: 789 pages, Hardcover
An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction …
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1. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)
By: Anne Rice , A.N. Roquelaure
3.22
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Adorned and yet exposed. It was mystifying."-Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)
"For one moment, Beauty knew terror. But a delicious abandon took hold of her."-Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)
"You must curb your love as I curb mine. Believe me, I understand even as I condemn you."-Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)
"What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none."-Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)
2. The Keep
By: Jennifer Egan
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to."-Jennifer Egan, The Keep
"It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next three hours, a wise and beautiful woman would float out of the wrecka…"-Jennifer Egan, The Keep
"All that love, all that pain, all the stuff people feel – not just me and you, brother, but everyone, everyone who's ever walked this beautiful green planet – how can all that disappear when somebody…"-Jennifer Egan, The Keep
"I smoked my first pipe with Seth. I knew the stuff was bad, but I was so tired of being the cop, begging and ragging at him, throwing Pampers in his face when he walked in the door. I wanted to be on…"-Jennifer Egan, The Keep
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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- classics
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"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
4. Nova
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.80
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adv… read more
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- classics
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"The inevitable is that unprepared for."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"How many notes have you made on this book?"-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
5. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
6. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
By: Christa Wolf , Jan van Heurck
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of … read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. March: Book One (March, #1)
By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin
4.00
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movem… read more
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8. The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , R.W.B. Lewis
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in ha… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
9. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New
3.90
Format: 256 pages,
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more
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10. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circum… read more
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11. Akira, Vol. 1
By: None , Katsuhiro Otomo , None , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The science fiction tale set in 2019 in Tokyo after the city was destroyed by World War III, follow… read more
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12. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard , None
3.48
Format: None pages,
Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more
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13. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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14. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
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15. The Years
By: Virginia Woolf
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, The Yearsis a savage indictment of… read more
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16. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages,
Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more
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17. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
4.21
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
18. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
By: Frank Herbert
3.88
Format: 587 pages, Paperback
Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more
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- classics
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"But you invite ..."-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"In the wrong hands,"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"Only fools prefer the past!"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"For what do you hunger, Lord?"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
19. Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
By: Donna Leon
4.09
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly in… read more
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- fiction
"He slowed his pace to hers, and they walked automatically, neither of them having to hesitate about where to turn or which bridge to take: the unconscious navigation of the average Venetian is surpas…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"In Campo Manin, the bodies of dead shops lined the way to the canal. There was a dead Middle Eastern fast-food place, a dead sporting goods shop, a dead clothes shop with two dead mannequins in the w…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his ch…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"Have you been reading the letters of Rosa Luxemburg again, Donatella?’ Brunetti asked in a normal voice. She laughed her bright laugh, a sound he delighted in hearing because to be thought clever or …"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
20. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
21. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
22. Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)
By: Donna Leon
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
* 9 hours, 46 minutes * In 'TRANSIENT DESIRES', the 30th novel in Donna Leon's masterful series,… read more
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- fiction
"There had been no noise from any other part of the apartment, but that didn’t exclude the possibility of Paolo’s presence, especially if she had given her soul over to reading. He sometimes told her …"-Donna Leon, Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)
"The area confirmed his feelings about Giudecca: bleak cement buildings, crudely rectangular, devoid of any attempt at embellishment or adornment: cubes for living in, worsened – at least in his eyes …"-Donna Leon, Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)
23. The Handyman Method
By: Nick Cutter
3.27
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method
"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method
"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method
24. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
25. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology
By: Ellen Datlow
3.65
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
26. Alebrijes
By: Donna Barba Higuera
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning T… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
27. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
By: Bettina L. Love
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more
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28. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
29. Jackal
By: Erin E. Adams
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the fi… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"When your name is in other people's mouths, they twist it up. They make you into something you are not. When people take you outside yourself, that is when trouble comes."-Erin E. Adams, Jackal
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31. Kindred / Fledgling / Collected Stories
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.55
Format: 789 pages, Hardcover
An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction … read more
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- anthologies
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- horror
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
