17 must-read fantasy books like 51 by Patrick O'Leary

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51

By: Patrick O'Leary

3.57

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The events at Roswell have long been one of the U.S. government's best-kept secrets. But what if Ar…

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Cover of The Asylum of Dr. Caligari by James K. Morrow

1. The Asylum of Dr. Caligari

By: James K. Morrow

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The infamous Dr. Caligari: psychiatrist or psychopath? In this wry and satiric tour de force, award… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

2. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

By: Patricia A. McKillip

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Sixteen when a baby is brought to her to raise, Sybel has grown up on Eld Mountain. Her only playma… read more

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3. Rimrunners (The Company Wars, #3)

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.87

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. Coyote Blue

By: Christopher Moore

4.03

Format: None pages,

From Christopher Moore, author of Fluke, comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysic… read more

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5. Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga [Publication] #5.1-5.3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Limited edition volume. Contents: Frame story that follows Miles' time on Earth in Brothers in Arms… read more

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6. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. We Are the Dead (The Last War, #1)

By: Mike Shackle

4.09

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

The war is over. The enemy won. Now it's time to fight back. For generations, the people of Jia … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Scorpio (Frontlines: Evolution, #1)

By: Marko Kloos

4.14

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

On a distant Earth colony, an orphaned survivor of an alien invasion discovers that the greatest wo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Extractionist

By: Kimberly Unger

3.61

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

2023 Philip K. Dick Award Winner In her latest exciting technothriller, acclaimed author Kimberl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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10. The Doors of Eden

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.87

Format: 609 pages, ebook

Lee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Neom

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Machines roam the desert in search of purpose; works of art can be deadlier than weapons, and impro… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Boys, Beasts & Men

By: Sam J. Miller

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection, featurin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Stupid of me to think that just because her empathy extended to monsters like Kong, it would reach all the way to monsters like me."

-Sam J. Miller, Boys, Beasts & Men

"We walk. Two bodies, two wild separate beings. Sex tingles all through me: the hunger for it, for the joy that is more than just the pleasure of it, or the pride of being desired Of connecting to som…"

-Sam J. Miller, Boys, Beasts & Men

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13. How to Mars

By: David Ebenbach

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality television nightmare? This debut science-… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We have been told that this is what it means to be alive."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"Holding hands in spacesuits is not very much like holding actual hands, but it's something."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What you have here is a women who's travelled more than a hundred millions miles in order to become, I guess, a biologist with no bio to ology"

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What do you think it means?" she says in a low, conspiratorial voice. "What do YOU think it means?" I say. It's an old psychologist move, that one."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

Cover of Crazy in Poughkeepsie (Neddie & Friends, #6) by Daniel Pinkwater

14. Crazy in Poughkeepsie (Neddie & Friends, #6)

By: Daniel Pinkwater

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The inimitable Daniel Pinkwater (The Big Orange Splot; The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) brings his za… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Unity

By: Elly Bangs

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Evoking the grittiness of Mad Max and the idealism of Sense8, this absorbing sci-fi debut is a dyna… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. The Unbalancing

By: R.B. Lemberg

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

New love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Escapement

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Into the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son in a strange par… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. The Peculiarities

By: David Liss

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From popular historical alternate history author David Liss (A Conspiracy of Paper) comes the tale … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of 51 by Patrick  O'Leary

19. 51

By: Patrick O'Leary

3.57

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The events at Roswell have long been one of the U.S. government's best-kept secrets. But what if Ar… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell

20. Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories

By: Tobias S. Buckell

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Traffic is piling up, and strange things are heading your way in this new collection by World Fanta… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. Fantastic Americana

By: Josh Rountree

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Yesterday... a giant lost himself in America, forever running from the supernatural killers who pur… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy

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