11 Top science fiction books like Dragon Dance by John Christopher

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Dragon Dance

By: John Christopher

3.45

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Simon and Brad's fireball adventures take them to ancient China where they are exposed to incredibl…

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Cover of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4) by Douglas Adams

1. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

By: Douglas Adams

4.09

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ra… read more

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  • adventure
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Shit!"

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"Non tout baigne, tout ce qui est susceptible de biagner, baigne."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

"God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience."

-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

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2. When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H.G. Wells , Orson Scott Card

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the adva… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

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3. Sarnia

By: John Christopher , Hilary Ford

4.06

Format: None pages, ebook

Life holds no prospect of luxury or excitement after Sarnia's beloved mother dies: potential suitor… read more

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4. Who Goes Here? (Warren Peace, #1)

By: Bob Shaw

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • adventure
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5. The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain , None , Everett Emerson

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-cen… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • adventure
"Loose and forbear!"

-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

"A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

"A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart."

-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

"Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily."

-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

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6. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • adventure
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7. David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling

4.03

Format: 882 pages, Paperback

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Trifles make the sum of life. "

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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8. Cloud Atlas

By: David Mitchell

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Diamond of Darkhold (Book of Ember, #4) by Jeanne DuPrau

9. The Diamond of Darkhold (Book of Ember, #4)

By: Jeanne DuPrau

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's been several months since Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and, along with the re… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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10. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • fiction

11. The Switch

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Tad Spencer's father denies him a trip to a theme park, Tad wishes he were someone else. The n… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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12. Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1)

By: Harry Harrison

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements we… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
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13. The Prophet of Yonwood (Book of Ember, #3)

By: Jeanne DuPrau

3.66

Format: None pages,

It's 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember, and the world is in crisis. War looms on … read more

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  • childrens
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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14. Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)

By: Michelle Paver , Geoff Taylor

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy

15. How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)

By: Cressida Cowell

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "t… read more

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16. Midnight’s Children

By: Salman Rushdie

3.98

Format: 647 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Life again refused to remain lifesized"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

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17. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
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  • adventure
"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

18. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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19. The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

20. A Wreath of Stars

By: Bob Shaw

3.75

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ironically, for Gilbert Snook, who considered himself the human equivalent of a neutrino, a particl… read more

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21. Quidditch Through the Ages

By: J.K. Rowling , None

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

Did you know that: there are 700 ways of committing a foul in Quidditch? The game first began to ev… read more

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Cover of Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, Russell Munson

22. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

By: Richard Bach , Russell Munson

3.85

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get specia… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Why is it,"

-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"Keep working on love."

-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"Imagination is an old soul."

-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"The gull sees farthest who flies highest"

-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

23. Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

By: Ken Liu , Chen Qiufan , Xia Jia , None , Hao Jingfang , None , Cheng Jingbo , Liu Cixin

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from… read more

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24. The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)

By: Laurie R. King

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. H… read more

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25. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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  • adventure
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

26. Crooked House

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides li… read more

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27. White Fang

By: Jack London , K.A. Applegate

4.02

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • novels
"He was a silent fury who no torment could tame."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Các sự vật không phải bao giờ cũng đúng như vẻ bề ngoài."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Got to take a gamble. The only way to find out is to find out."

-Jack London, White Fang

Cover of Dragon Dance by John Christopher

28. Dragon Dance

By: John Christopher

3.45

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Simon and Brad's fireball adventures take them to ancient China where they are exposed to incredibl… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • novels
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • china
  • fantasy
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29. Assignment in Eternity, Part 1

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.03

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

A story of interplanetary espionage.ContentsGulf (1949) - novellaElsewhen (1941) - novelette read more

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  • science fiction

20 Best fiction books like Dragon Dance by John Christopher

Transform Your Habits

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

Douglas Adams

4.09

Transform Your Habits

When the Sleeper Wakes

H.G. Wells , Orson Scott Card

3.36

Transform Your Habits

Who Goes Here? (Warren Peace, #1)

Bob Shaw

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain , None , Everett Emerson

0.00

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27 Top fiction books like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) by Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner

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Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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