15 must-read fiction books like The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 by Jonathan Strahan

Cover of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 by Jonathan Strahan

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7

By: Jonathan Strahan

3.71

Format: 642 pages, Kindle Edition

In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of aston…

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Cover of Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1) by Mark  Lawrence

1. Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

By: Mark Lawrence

3.84

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, an… read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"War, my friends, is a thing of beauty."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Go fuck yourself,' I said. I kept it pleasant."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Four years and everything was the same, except me."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?"

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

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2. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

By: Aldo Leopold

4.30

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more

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"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

3. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

By: Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book- SF: 100 Best Novels In the ove… read more

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4. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

By: Philip K. Dick

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more

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5. Bloody Rose (The Band, #2)

By: Nicholas Eames

3.88

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

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6. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

By: Peter Robinson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Long Chills and Case Dough

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.44

Format: 67 pages, Hardcover

Long Chills and Case Dough is a previously unpublished short story, written just before Brandon pub… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

8. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

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  • short stories
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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

Cover of The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1) by Micaiah Johnson

9. The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

By: Micaiah Johnson

3.94

Format: 336 pages, None

An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Of course, humanity couldn't just look. We had to enter. We had to touch and taste and take."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"„An angel fallen from the sky, with my name on her back so I would know the gift was meant for me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"I confused routine for reliability and reliability for safety. I had no idea the chaos I was capable of holding inside me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

Cover of The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1) by Jenn Lyons

10. The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1)

By: Jenn Lyons

3.83

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. Wh… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Problems are opportunities with thorns attached"

-Jenn Lyons, The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1)

"Don't insult me by suggesting that the only way I'd be welcome in your bed is by removing all rivals."

-Jenn Lyons, The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1)

Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

11. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock #7) by Sherry Thomas

12. A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock #7)

By: Sherry Thomas

4.18

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Holmes’s brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Murder Book by Thomas Perry

13. Murder Book

By: Thomas Perry

3.87

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master cl… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

14. Proust Was a Neuroscientist

By: Jonah Lehrer

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the dawn of the modern age, science's greatest contribution to the world has been its ability… read more

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"To have a style is to be stuck."

-Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist

"Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of inter…"

-Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Cover of 2023 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #3) by S.A. Gibson

15. 2023 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #3)

By: S.A. Gibson

3.90

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Hunger by Marc NeufferThe Committee by DJ CamdenTime Seeds by Marc NeufferThe Ghost and the Machine… read more

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Cover of Attack Surface (Little Brother, #3) by Cory Doctorow

16. Attack Surface (Little Brother, #3)

By: Cory Doctorow

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Masha, I know you think that the ‘struggle for justice’ is a corny fantasy, but you live in a world where people have weekends, don’t get maimed on the job, and have constitutional rights, at least s…"

-Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface (Little Brother, #3)

Cover of Because I Could Not Stop for Death (An Emily Dickinson Mystery #1) by Amanda Flower

17. Because I Could Not Stop for Death (An Emily Dickinson Mystery #1)

By: Amanda Flower

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in thi… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"The best part of having a pet is having someone to think of other than yourself, having someone who depends on you."

-Amanda Flower, Because I Could Not Stop for Death (An Emily Dickinson Mystery #1)

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18. Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars #1)

By: Marko Kloos

4.12

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. Above the Ether

By: Eric Barnes

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Here is a mesmerizing novel of unfolding dystopia amid the effects of climate change in a world ver… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 by Jonathan Strahan

20. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7

By: Jonathan Strahan

3.71

Format: 642 pages, Kindle Edition

In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of aston… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 book and Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7

  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Drop Dead Sisters (The Finch Sisters #1) by Amelia Diane Coombs

21. Drop Dead Sisters (The Finch Sisters #1)

By: Amelia Diane Coombs

3.88

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

“Compulsively readable, Drop Dead Sisters is perfect for readers who love shows like Bad Sisters an… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction

10 must-read adult books like The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 by Jonathan Strahan

Transform Your Habits

Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

Mark Lawrence

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Long Chills and Case Dough

Brandon Sanderson

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

Martha Wells

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

Micaiah Johnson

3.94

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18 Best fiction books like Attack Surface (Little Brother, #3) by Cory Doctorow

Transform Your Habits

The Peripheral

William Gibson

3.42

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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