The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One
By: Catherynne M. Valente
4.14
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated author of Fairyland, Space Opera, and much more, Catherynne M. Valente is also known…
Want to Read $ 6.99"Sadly, after a certain age, no intelligent child continues believing in their parents, and it is embarrassing when one professes such faith after puberty. Santa Claus, however, will never fail us"-Catherynne M. Valente, The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One
"Sadly, after a certain age, no intelligent child continues believing in their parents, and it is embarrassing when one professes such faith after puberty. Santa Claus, however, will never fail us"-Catherynne M. Valente, The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One
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1. The Honey Month
By: Amal El-Mohtar , Oliver Hunter
4.19
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Twenty-eight days there are in the month of February, a cold month, a month in which the summer see… read more
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- collections
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- speculative fiction
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"She shied away from the gazes of boys and girls, bound her hair in brambles, braceleted her arms in vines, filled her mouth with chestnut honey to say away, keep away; I have forgotten how to kiss, h…"-Amal El-Mohtar, The Honey Month
"I am sad because I love you, because I love you so much, and because I am not a bee to buzz with you lightly. I am not a flower, not a tree, not a rain-hewn stone. I am not a storm or a cresting wave…"-Amal El-Mohtar, The Honey Month
2. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
By: Cory Doctorow
3.82
Format: 340 pages,
On The Skids In The Transhuman Future Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long en… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
3. Waking the Moon
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
Like all new students, Sweeney moves with caution at Washington, D.C.'s University of the Archangel… read more
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4. My Real Children
By: Jo Walton
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of h… read more
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5. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
6. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
7. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
By: Nghi Vo
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
8. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction
By: Ann Leckie
4.05
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
9. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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- short stories
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- adult
- fantasy
10. Y/N
By: Esther Yi
2.95
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."-Esther Yi, Y/N
"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
11. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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- adult
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12. The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
By: Olivia Waite
3.99
Format: 336 pages, ebook
As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It is… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Even a love in mourning still had sparks in it."-Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
"Moonlight silvered the long line of Lucy’s back as she sank to her knees—not submissively, as one conquered, but as a queen kneels at a coronation."-Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
"Every other moon, sun, comet, planet, and star is itself a center, and extorts its own force upon all the rest. Nothing in the universe stands alone"-Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
"You could never mistake the sound of true grief, once you had felt it yourself. It made the mettle of the soul ring in sympathy, like one bell softly chiming whenever its neighbor was struck."-Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)
13. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
By: Samit Basu
3.59
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
14. Rose/House
By: Arkady Martine
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more
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- short stories
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- speculative fiction
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15. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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- dystopia
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
16. Floating Hotel
By: Grace Curtis
3.70
Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition
This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery … read more
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17. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
18. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
19. 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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- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
20. The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One
By: Catherynne M. Valente
4.14
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated author of Fairyland, Space Opera, and much more, Catherynne M. Valente is also known… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- collections
- adult
- anthologies
- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Sadly, after a certain age, no intelligent child continues believing in their parents, and it is embarrassing when one professes such faith after puberty. Santa Claus, however, will never fail us"-Catherynne M. Valente, The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One
21. Ushers: A Short Story
By: Joe Hill
4.31
Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition
A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more
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