8 must-read science fiction books like Semley's Necklace: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Semley's Necklace: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.13

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and …

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1. Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.13

Format: 316 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evi… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The building was of stone, originally erected, Leaphorn had been told, by a Church of Christ missionary early in McGinnis's tenure as trader and postmaster. It had been abandoned after the preacher's…"

-Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)

"The big man glanced at him, a friendly look. Across the hogan, Leaphorn noticed, two of the women were smiling at him. He was a stranger, a policeman who had arrested one of them, a man from another …"

-Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)

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2. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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3. Backup (The Dresden Files, #10.5)

By: Mike Mignola , Jim Butcher

4.14

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

Let's get something clear right up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, hones… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table."

-Mike Mignola, Backup (The Dresden Files, #10.5)

"Harry waxes poetic about magic. He'll go on and on about how it comes from your feelings, and how it's a deep statement about the nature of your soul, and then he'll whip out some kind of half-divine…"

-Mike Mignola, Backup (The Dresden Files, #10.5)

"Let's get something clear up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revol…"

-Mike Mignola, Backup (The Dresden Files, #10.5)

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4. Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.46

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SING A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I don't see where you get off fretting about whether or not the end of the world is family-friendly."

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"Hey there," the steely abomination said with infinite, Buddha-like compassion, "it looks like you're trying to come to grips with the existence of events and entities far beyond your experience and, …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"Are you kind enough, on your little planet, not to shut that rhythm down? Not to crush underfoot the singers of songs and tellers of tales and wearers of silk? Because it's monsters who do that. Who …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"But all he had up Robert's perfect sleeve was two rubbishy songs that were more gimmick than the white-hot fire of real music , the sort of music people would play over and over in their bedrooms at …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

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5. The Killing Machine (Demon Princes, #2)

By: Jack Vance

3.99

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, Gersen now sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. The Dark Wind (Leaphorn & Chee, #5)

By: Tony Hillerman

3.75

Format: 320 pages,

A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clue… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty

By: Ed Brubaker , Greg Rucka , Michael Lark

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Meet Gotham's Finest. Living in the shadows of the Dark Knight makes the detectives of Gotham's pol… read more

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8. The Drowning Pool

By: Ross Macdonald

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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10. Hardfought

By: Greg Bear

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

The Nebula award-winning short story by master SF writer Greg Bear. Humans are engaged in a long wa… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

11. Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction

By: Catherine Belsey

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, … read more

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12. Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

By: Tony Hillerman

3.50

Format: 92 pages,

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutena… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Buccaneers of America

By: Alexis Brown , Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A cross between genuine privateers, commissioned to defend a country's colonies and trade, and outr… read more

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14. Surface Detail (Culture #9)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will no… read more

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15. The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)

By: Tony Hillerman

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim… read more

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16. Thousandth Night

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Thousandth Night, the genesis for the epic novel House of Suns, is quintessential Reynolds. A visio… read more

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17. Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories

By: Scott Lynch , Elizabeth Bear

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Short fiction from Elizabeth Bear, recipient of the "John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer." I… read more

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18. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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19. People of Darkness (Leaphorn & Chee, #4)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wi… read more

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20. A Sound of Thunder

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 15 pages, ebook

Free online fiction. The short story, A Sound of Thunder, involves a Time Travel Safari where ri… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. The Physicians of Vilnoc (Penric and Desdemona, #8)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.31

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

When a mysterious plague breaks out in the army fort guarding Vilnoc, the port capital of the duchy… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Orphans of Raspay (Penric and Desdemona, #7)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.28

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Knot of Shadows (Penric and Desdemona, #11)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.30

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

When a corpse is found floating face-down in Vilnoc harbor that is not quite as dead as it seems, T… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. In Plain Sight (Arcane Casebook #1)

By: Dan Willis

4.38

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

When a magical plague is released in a Depression-era New York soup kitchen, private detective Alex… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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26. Immer dieser Michel (Emil i Lönneberga #1-3)

By: Astrid Lindgren

4.42

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Michel, fünf Jahre alt und stark wie ein kleiner Ochse, lebt auf dem Hof Katthult in Lönneberga, da… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

27. Goodbye (The Dresden Files, #13.5)

By: Jim Butcher

4.22

Format: 2 pages, ebook

Microfiction #3 Concurrent with the end of Changes and contains RADIOACTIVE-LEVEL SPOILERS for Cha… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

28. Job Placement (The Dresden Files, #15.1)

By: Jim Butcher

3.97

Format: 4 pages, ebook

Spoilers for the short story “Bigfoot on Campus,” which appears in the Brief Cases anthology. Set b… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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29. Journal (The Dresden Files, #12.2)

By: Jim Butcher

3.99

Format: 2 pages, ebook

A little insight into what was going on in Morgan’s head during the events of Turn Coat. WARNING: C… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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30. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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31. Semley's Necklace: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.13

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and … read more

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22 must-read fiction books like Semley's Necklace: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Transform Your Habits

Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)

Tony Hillerman

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Iain M. Banks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Backup (The Dresden Files, #10.5)

Mike Mignola , Jim Butcher

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

Catherynne M. Valente

3.46

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9 Top fiction books like The Killing Machine (Demon Princes, #2) by Jack Vance

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The Courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber, #5)

Roger Zelazny , Tim White

4.18

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The Killing Machine (Demon Princes, #2)

Jack Vance

3.99

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The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun #4)

Gene Wolfe

5.00

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The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4)

Harry Harrison

3.67

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