25 best-selling fiction books like Red Shoes by Satyros Phil Brucato

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Red Shoes

By: Satyros Phil Brucato

4.48

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

When a young dancer burns to death on stage, her friend Genét Shilling wants to know why. That puzz…

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Cover of Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2) by Ben Aaronovitch

1. Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant fi… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
"He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light. "

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

Cover of Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) by James S.A. Corey

2. Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 608 pages, ebook

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major tel… read more

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  • fiction
"So,"

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"I’m really wishing Titan were still on that list of options."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"The real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"History was a cycle. Everything that had happened before, all the way back through the generations, would happen again."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

Cover of Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) by China Miéville

3. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction

4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

By: Cory Doctorow

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a … read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The City & the City by China Miéville

5. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

Cover of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 by Alan             Moore, Kevin O'Neill

6. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues,… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke

7. The City and the Stars

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.08

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had… read more

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  • fiction
"When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth."

-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

"He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral."

-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."

-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

"Does it not seem strange to you, began Yarlan Zey, that though the skies are open to us, we have tried to bury ourselves in the Earth? It is the beginning of the sickness whose ending you have seen i…"

-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

8. Mage: The Ascension: Pride, Power, Paradox: A Storytelling Game of Reality on the Brink

By: Brian Campbell , Phil Brucato , Stewart Wieck , Chris Hind

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Hardcover

Ours is the power of Solomon, the magic of Merlin, the fall of Icarus. From countless ages we have … read more

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Cover of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) by Robert M. Pirsig

9. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

By: Robert M. Pirsig

3.78

Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more

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  • fiction
"This forest silence improves anyone."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"The more you read, the more you calm down."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

10. Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for televi… read more

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Cover of Provenance (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie

11. Provenance (Imperial Radch)

By: Ann Leckie

3.84

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be consider… read more

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  • fiction
"Diplomat does not mean nice,"

-Ann Leckie, Provenance (Imperial Radch)

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12. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

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  • fiction
"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

Cover of The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5) by Jim Butcher

13. The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5)

By: Jim Butcher

4.40

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

From the number one New York Times bestselling The Dresden Files series, a brand new novella set af… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

14. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysteri… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

15. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

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  • fiction
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

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16. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

Cover of A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) by P. Djèlí Clark

17. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

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  • fiction
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

Cover of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky  Chambers

18. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

By: Becky Chambers

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more

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  • fiction
"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Cover of A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) by Arkady Martine

19. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

By: Arkady Martine

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more

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  • fiction
"I thought you hated them,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

Cover of The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV

20. The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

By: James Tynion IV

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

COLE TURNER has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn't prepared for what happens wh… read more

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  • fiction
"Collective belief shapes the world, so everything is a little bit true, or has the potential to be true."

-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

"The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes. The more reality tips in the favor of that belief."

-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

"Barack Obama contradicts the image they have in their head for what a President looks like and sounds like, and it unsettles them on a subconscious level. And then somebody presents an answer to why …"

-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

Cover of Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

21. Termination Shock

By: Neal Stephenson

3.83

Format: 708 pages, Hardcover

A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Sandman: Act III by Dirk Maggs

22. The Sandman: Act III

By: Dirk Maggs

4.51

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

In Act III, we follow Morpheus on a grand journey to take care of family business. He visits with h… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Agency (Jackpot #2) by William Gibson

23. Agency (Jackpot #2)

By: William Gibson

3.81

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "a… read more

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  • fiction
"I dislike calling them stubs,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"You’re too young to remember it,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"We’ve sourced something field-expedient,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"I like it. A Silicon Valley ghost story."

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

Cover of Memory's Legion by James S.A. Corey

24. Memory's Legion

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S. A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons by Ben Riggs

25. Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

By: Ben Riggs

3.97

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Role-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR ― the company that unleashe… read more

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Cover of Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1) by Katee Robert

26. Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1)

By: Katee Robert

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sail the magical high seas with this first book in a new sexy fantasy romance series from Katee Rob… read more

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"If you're going to lie, make it a good one."

-Katee Robert, Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1)

"She's the one who fucked up and yet I'm the one who's feeling bad about it. I don't know how she does this without saying a single word, but she manages to again and again."

-Katee Robert, Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1)

Cover of Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories) by Jon Peterson

27. Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories)

By: Jon Peterson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running le… read more

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Cover of Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins by Jeff Lemire

28. Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins

By: Jeff Lemire

4.27

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In the series that writer MARK MILLAR (HIT GIRL) called "the best comic of 2018," rural mystery and… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Magos (Eisenhorn, #4) by Dan Abnett

29. The Magos (Eisenhorn, #4)

By: Dan Abnett

4.41

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Inquisitor Eisenhorn returns in a stunning new novel that pits him against his oldest foe, forcing … read more

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  • fiction
"Spider legs. Some arachnid form, anyway. A xenos variety of chelicerata. But these limbs were not under a microscope. They were two hundred metres long. 'That's not local,' he said."

-Dan Abnett, The Magos (Eisenhorn, #4)

"Why do you do it?' asked Drusher. 'And don't say "because someone must" or anything like that.' 'Why are you a magos biologis, Drusher, when that calling has apparently given you a life you resent?' …"

-Dan Abnett, The Magos (Eisenhorn, #4)

Cover of Red Shoes by Satyros Phil Brucato

30. Red Shoes

By: Satyros Phil Brucato

4.48

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

When a young dancer burns to death on stage, her friend Genét Shilling wants to know why. That puzz… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

Ben Aaronovitch

4.08

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Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

China Miéville

3.80

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Cory Doctorow

3.82

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China Miéville

3.90

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Locke & Key

Stephen King , Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez , Kate Mulgrew , Haley Joel Osment , None

3.58

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Brief Lives (The Sandman #7)

Neil Gaiman , Peter Straub , Jill Thompson , Vince Locke

3.64

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Worlds' End (The Sandman #8)

Stephen King , Neil Gaiman , John Watkiss , Mike Allred , Bryan Talbot , Michael Zulli , Mark Buckingham , Vince Locke , Steve Leialoha , Todd Klein , Gary Amaro , Tony Harris , None , Alec Stevens , None

3.64

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