17 must-read fiction books like The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician by Tendai Huchu

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The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

By: Tendai Huchu

3.49

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attem…

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1. A Dead Djinn in Cairo

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.66

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantm… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's A Dead Djinn in Cairo book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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3. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

Similar categories in George Eliot's Silas Marner book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

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4. The Luminaries

By: Eleanor Catton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1) by Ben Aaronovitch

5. Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too… read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1) book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • fiction
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6. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

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  • fiction
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

7. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)

By: Helene Wecker

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling jo… read more

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8. The Power of Positive Thinking

By: Norman Vincent Peale

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

"This book is written with the sole objective of helping the reader achieve a happy, satisfying, an… read more

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9. Rivers of London: Body Work

By: Ben Aaronovitch , Andrew Cartmel , Lee Sullivan , Luis Guerrero

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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10. Deep Fathom

By: James Rollins

3.88

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find Earth burnin… read more

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11. The Light of Day

By: Eric Ambler

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin's classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson … read more

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12. Billion Dollar Brain

By: Len Deighton

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The classic thriller of a lethal computer age and a maniac's private cold war...General Midwinter l… read more

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13. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • fiction
"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

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14. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

By: Ian Fleming

3.80

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's Moonraker (James Bond, #3) book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • fiction
"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

15. Doctor No (James Bond, #6)

By: Ian Fleming

3.85

Format: None pages,

James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service… read more

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16. Nervous Conditions

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

4.54

Format: 253 pages,

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more

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17. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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18. Thunderball (James Bond, #9)

By: Ian Fleming

4.34

Format: 168 pages,

"The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey ey… read more

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19. Business Model Generation

By: Alexander Osterwalder , Yves Pigneur

3.88

Format: None pages,

Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a busin… read more

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20. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Korshak's Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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21. Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

By: Ajay Agrawal

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Predict… read more

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22. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more

Similar categories in C.K. McDonnell's The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1) book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • fiction
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23. And Put Away Childish Things

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bodie’s been called into the delightful fantasy world of his grandmother’s beloved children’s… read more

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  • fiction
"Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Ah, yes, hindsight, always my weapon of choice."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes there's a place where fiction and reality meet. Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes a wardrobe is just a wardrobe. Sometimes books are just books. That's why we call it fiction."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

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24. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

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25. Portrait of a Thief

By: Grace D. Li

3.46

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We’re children of the diaspora,"

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"Art could be beauty, but it was also power."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"She had never liked anything she did not excel at."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn't seem to matter when it's museums doing it."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

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26. Lost Ark Dreaming

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.69

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high… read more

Similar categories in Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Lost Ark Dreaming book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • africa
  • fiction
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27. Inscape

By: Louise Carey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Warning: use of this gate will take you outside of the InTech corporate zone. Different community g… read more

Similar categories in Louise Carey's Inscape book and Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

  • fiction
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28. The Eagle's Covenant

By: Michael Parker

4.08

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen He controls an enormous industry … read more

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  • contemporary
"Gentlemen,"

-Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

"Does he live alone?"

-Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

"I don’t think ‘fear’ is the right word for his kind,"

-Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

"Why would you want to kidnap Herr Schiller’s grandson?"

-Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

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29. The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician

By: Tendai Huchu

3.49

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attem… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • zimbabwe
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
Cover of Hack: A Nik Byron Investigation by Mark Pawlosky

30. Hack: A Nik Byron Investigation

By: Mark Pawlosky

3.98

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

1st place award in the 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards, Mystery/Suspense category When a top secr… read more

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  • fiction

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Raymond Chandler

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