Parting Shadows (Toccata System #1)
By: Kate Sheeran Swed
4.14
Format: 150 pages, None
Raised by a heartsick AI, she’s programmed to kill. And desperate to flee. After growing up on …
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1. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.47
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Brandon Sanderson creates worlds, and those worlds are linked. His universe spans the Stormlight Ar… read more
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"Wow! I hate you already."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"It was like saying that a man drowning in beer was better off than one drowning in acid."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"She hated dreams. They either showed her a life she couldn't have, or a life that terrified her."-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
"People," Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elemen…"-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
2. Flotsam (Peridot Shift #1)
By: R.J. Theodore
3.89
Format: 535 pages, ebook
A fantastical steampunk first contact novel that ties together high magic, high technology, and bol… read more
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3. Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
By: Ann Leckie
4.08
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of … read more
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"Captain,"-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
"Do you even know,"-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
" Not tea but blood! "-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
"I’d run straight into a bulkhead trying to walk and receive data at the same time…"-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
4. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.32
Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more
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"So even in hell, there are clowns."-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
"So high, so low, so many things to know."-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
5. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
By: Ann Leckie
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more
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6. The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
By: Sujata Massey
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her f… read more
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7. Severance
By: None
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Severance, the debut novel from famed Cracked.com writer Chris Bucholz, the inhabitants of a genera… read more
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8. The Kaiju Preservation Society
By: John Scalzi
3.99
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more
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"I lift things."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"So we’re the monster police, too?"-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
9. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
4.19
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more
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"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
10. 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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"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)
11. 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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"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)
12. 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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13. Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.23
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the c… read more
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"If you have any enemies I'll kill them and you can dissect them. Would you like that?"-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)
"Once a thing is made, it exists in the mind of the world. The next one is easier to make, and the next one after that. ... "The first takes a twisted genius. The hundredth can be done by any blacksmi…"-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)
"The one advantage police had over paladins was that guards had no problem believing that someone would randomly shove pointy logs into other people. Paladins generally took a little longer to get the…"-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)
14. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.23
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more
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"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
15. Hench (Hench, #1)
By: Natalie Zina Walschots
4.02
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a… read more
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"I wondered what it must be like to be so mediocre and so confident that the same time."-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"But even if the label on your own feelings doesn't matter, wouldn't you want to know how you felt about you? He pulled me off an operating table and rebuilt my brain. He killed people to get to me. W…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"No one wants to be a real hero; it’s too hard. My husband didn’t give a damn whether the work I was doing was noble as long as it appeared to be. When I killed someone then - something I did a lot mo…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
16. The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)
By: Katherine Addison
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, 'The Goblin Em… read more
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"I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses"-Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)
17. Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.12
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladi… read more
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"I fear that I am not the best possible person for this, but I am the best possible person available at this time, which is much the same thing."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)
"There was something about poverty that was a little like war. Either you had been there or you hadn't, and it wasn't really possible to explain it to anyone who hadn't."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)
18. A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
By: Freya Marske
3.96
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes… read more
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" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself …"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself …"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
"You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you t…"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
" You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you…"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
19. Husband Material (London Calling, #2)
By: Alexis Hall
3.56
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Wanted: One (very real) husband Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best In BOYF… read more
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20. Barbarians of the Beyond
By: Matthew Hughes
4.26
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Twenty years ago, five master criminals known as the Demon Princes raided Mount Pleasant to enslave… read more
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21. In the Stacks
By: Scott Lynch
4.05
Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition
Life is always complicated for students of magic at the High University of Hazar, but the fifth-yea… read more
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22. The Blackwing War (Deep Witches #1)
By: K.B. Spangler
4.31
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Three thousand years ago, the Deep appeared without warning. This alien life form was quickly put t… read more
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23. Parting Shadows (Toccata System #1)
By: Kate Sheeran Swed
4.14
Format: 150 pages, None
Raised by a heartsick AI, she’s programmed to kill. And desperate to flee. After growing up on … read more
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