5 must-read science fiction fantasy books like The Ultimate Discworld Companion by Terry Pratchett

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The Ultimate Discworld Companion

By: Terry Pratchett

4.51

Format: 886 pages, Kindle Edition

The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, …

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Ultimate Discworld Companion by Terry Pratchett , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Robert Foster

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

Now in a gorgeous new hardcover format with a four-color map of Middle-earth, this is the completel… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Of Shadow and Sea (Elder Empire: Shadow, #1)

By: Will Wight

3.66

Format: None pages,

The Consultant's Guild has served the Aurelian Empire for over a thousand years, working in the dar… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. Of Sea and Shadow (Elder Empire: Sea, #1)

By: Will Wight

3.66

Format: None pages,

The Guild of Navigators has ruled the Aion Sea for centuries, using their fleet of mystical ships t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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5. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

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6. Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens (Alcatraz, #4)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Alcatraz Smedry, the boy with the incredible Talent for breaking things, has a lot to prove and lit… read more

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7. The Dark Talent (Alcatraz, #5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Alcatraz Smedry has successfully defeated the army of Evil Librarians and saved the kingdom of Moki… read more

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8. Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia (Alcatraz, #3)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Nancy Pearl loves this series and we do too! When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to … read more

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9. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

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10. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

By: Rob Wilkins

4.68

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more

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11. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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13. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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14. The World According to Physics

By: Jim Al-Khalili

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinat… read more

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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

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15. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights by Bridget Collins

16. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)

By: Daniel José Older

3.71

Format: 490 pages, Hardcover

Centuries before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Repub… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You are sure of your path," Cohmac had said to Reath on that same day when Reath had asked him to be his master. And he had felt so sure then, and that sureness had been a blessing after so much chao…"

-Daniel José Older, Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)

"War. War had come to Corellia. It was already a brutal one, and it was about to get much, much worse. There was no such thing as not taking sides. It was sheer theater in peacetime and an absolute jo…"

-Daniel José Older, Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)

"Any more cargo?" Cohmac called as Reath and Ram picked up their travel packs and headed up the ramp. "No, we got the rest of them, but thanks for your help," Ram said, his face twitching on one side.…"

-Daniel José Older, Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)

"Very like the wind, our feelings are," Yoda said. It was something he'd repeated many times over the years Kantam had been training with him, and Kantam had never totally known what to do with it. "T…"

-Daniel José Older, Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)

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18. Forge of the High Mage (Path to Ascendancy, #4)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

4.35

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

After decades of warfare, Malazan forces are now close to consolidating the Quon Talian mainland. Y… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. The Sandman: Act III

By: Dirk Maggs

4.51

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

In Act III, we follow Morpheus on a grand journey to take care of family business. He visits with h… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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21. Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

By: Genevieve Cogman

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved. It is 1793 an… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it."

-Genevieve Cogman, Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

Cover of The Imagination Chamber (His Dark Materials, #3.7) by Philip Pullman

22. The Imagination Chamber (His Dark Materials, #3.7)

By: Philip Pullman

3.38

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

A book of stunning, moving, exhilarating, breathtaking scenes set during the events of Northern Lig… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi

23. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

By: Garth Marenghi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more

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  • fiction
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

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24. City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1)

By: Rebecca Schaeffer

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who fi… read more

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  • fantasy
"Ma'am," I tell her. "Your husband was trying to eat you." "A misundertanding !" she insists, still waving the only arm she has left. I press my fingers to the bridge of my nose. "He ripped off your a…"

-Rebecca Schaeffer, City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1)

Cover of Star Wars: The High Republic - The Edge of Balance, Vol. 2 by Shima Shinya

25. Star Wars: The High Republic - The Edge of Balance, Vol. 2

By: Shima Shinya

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A massive, interconnected cross-publisher initiative focused on an all-new era of Star Wars storyte… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird & Wonderful Places by John Wade

26. London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird & Wonderful Places

By: John Wade

4.07

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembl… read more

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27. Weird Medieval Guys: A Bestiary of Curious Creatures from the Dark Ages

By: Olivia Swarthout

3.85

Format: 203 pages, ebook

Live, laugh love and die in the Middle Ages with Weird Medieval Guys!Explore what your medieval lif… read more

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Cover of Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being A Witch by Rhianna Pratchett

28. Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being A Witch

By: Rhianna Pratchett

4.57

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

"They say you don't find witchcraft, it finds you . . ." An illustrated and practical guide to b… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Ultimate Discworld Companion

By: Terry Pratchett

4.51

Format: 886 pages, Kindle Edition

The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, … read more

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Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

30. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious by Tim Minchin

31. You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious

By: Tim Minchin

4.42

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Life will sometimes seem long and tough. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And th… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien , Robert Foster

3.78

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Of Shadow and Sea (Elder Empire: Shadow, #1)

Will Wight

3.66

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Will Wight

3.66

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The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

Bridget Collins

4.06

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Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

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How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

Billy Connolly

4.16

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