18 best-selling fantasy books like The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen by James Wallis

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

By: James Wallis

4.12

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Can you keep up with Baron Munchausen's extraordinary adventures as he travels to the Moon and the …

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1. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • fantasy
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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2. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.32

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more

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  • humor
  • fantasy
  • comedy
"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

Cover of Roadside Picnic by Theodore Sturgeon, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis, None

3. Roadside Picnic

By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more

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  • fantasy
"Keep your head high,"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

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4. Tomie

By: Junji Ito , Naomi Kokubo

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. Sh… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Uzumaki by Junji Ito, Yuji Oniki

5. Uzumaki

By: Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

6. 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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7. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Jeff VanderMeer, Thomas Ligotti

8. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of The Player of Games (Culture, #2) by Iain M. Banks

9. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.28

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more

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  • fantasy
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"Escape is a commodity like anything else."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

Cover of A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

10. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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  • fantasy

11. The Incal

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Alejandro Jodorowsky , Mœbius , Justin Kelly , None

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside do… read more

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12. Children of Time

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more

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13. Urban Shadows: Political Urban Fantasy Powered by the Apocalypse

By: Amanda Valentine , Mark Diaz Truman , Juan Ochoa , None , Brendan Conway , None , None , None , None

4.75

Format: 118 pages, ebook

The City Hungers. Will You Feed It? The streets bleed shadows as the supernatural politics of the c… read more

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14. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more

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  • fantasy
"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

Cover of Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

15. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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  • fantasy
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

Cover of A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

16. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • humor
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Cover of A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine

17. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

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  • fantasy
"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

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18. Remina

By: Junji Ito

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

I MET REMINA'S EYE. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Og… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Exhalation by Ted Chiang

19. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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  • fantasy
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

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20. No Longer Human

By: Junji Ito

4.28

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a… read more

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"The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"Los débiles temen la felicidad misma. Pueden hacerse daño en el algodón. A veces son heridos incluso por la felicidad"

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

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21. The Light Brigade

By: Kameron Hurley

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…dif… read more

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"The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them. But I know better now. I know there is a greater power…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"You have War of the Worlds?" I asked the knu. It returned twenty different films, sixteen editions of a text, but no radio play. Radio drama. That's the word Tanaka had used. One text said it was his…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"When I’m old and dying, wheezing my guts out, my organs failing, I want to walk out the front door of some old farmhouse on my own land, maybe forty, fifty hectares of it. I want to find a cool place…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

Cover of Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty

22. Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

By: Michael W. Twitty

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossr… read more

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23. MÖRK BORG CULT: FERETORY

By: Free League Publishing

4.53

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

MÖRK BORG CULT: FERETORY is a sinful zine full of community made classes, adventures and horrible t… read more

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  • role playing games
  • games
  • fantasy
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24. CY_BORG

By: Christian Sahlén

4.56

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Nano-infested doomsday RPG about cybernetic misfits and punks raging against a relentless corporate… read more

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  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • games
Cover of So You Want to Be a Game Master?: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure—For Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder and Other Systems by Justin  Alexander

25. So You Want to Be a Game Master?: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure—For Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder and Other Systems

By: Justin Alexander

4.45

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

USA Today Bestselling Book ENNIE Award-nominated More people than ever are discovering Dungeons… read more

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  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • games
  • reference
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26. Brindlewood Bay

By: Jason Cordova

4.40

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Poznaj Znawczynie Zbrodni! Te starsze panie, które ponad wszystko pokochały kryminalne zagadki, od … read more

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  • role playing games
  • gaming
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27. Mörk Borg Cult: Heretic

By: Free League Publishing

4.66

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • role playing games
  • fantasy
Cover of Trail of Cthulhu (Trail of Cthulhu RPG) by Kenneth Hite

28. Trail of Cthulhu (Trail of Cthulhu RPG)

By: Kenneth Hite

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Trail of Cthulhu is a new standalone GUMSHOE system game under license to Chaosium, set in the 1930… read more

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  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • games
  • fantasy
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29. Severance - The Lexington Letter

By: Anonymous

3.98

Format: 43 pages, ebook

When does the cost of staying silent become greater than the price of speaking up? A desperate woma… read more

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30. The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

By: James Wallis

4.12

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Can you keep up with Baron Munchausen's extraordinary adventures as he travels to the Moon and the … read more

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  • humor
  • reference
  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • games
  • fantasy
  • comedy
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31. Improv for Gamers

By: Karen Twelves

3.79

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

This book provides a selection of fun and easy improv exercises designed to take your tabletop or l… read more

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  • role playing games
  • gaming

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Free League Publishing

4.53

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Christian Sahlén

4.56

Transform Your Habits

So You Want to Be a Game Master?: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure—For Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder and Other Systems

Justin Alexander

4.45

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Jason Cordova

4.40

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Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master: Get more from your D&D games by preparing less

Michael E. Shea

4.42

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The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters (1)

Keith Ammann

4.42

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Pelle Nilsson

4.54

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