18 must-read science fiction books like Carlucci's Heart by Richard Paul Russo

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Carlucci's Heart

By: Richard Paul Russo

4.06

Format: 390 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Lt. Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's f…

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Cover of Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks

1. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Cover of The Hard Goodbye (Sin City #1) by Frank Miller

2. The Hard Goodbye (Sin City #1)

By: Frank Miller

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  The first volume of the crime-comic megahit that intro… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Aliens: Bug Hunt by Scott Sigler, Jonathan Maberry, Rachel Caine, Heather    Graham, Larry Correia, David Farland

3. Aliens: Bug Hunt

By: Scott Sigler , Jonathan Maberry , Rachel Caine , Heather Graham , Larry Correia , David Farland

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it's what Corporal Hi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Crompton Divided

By: Robert Sheckley

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

He is a tortured soul. Separated at an early age from two conflicting personalities, Alistair Cromp… read more

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

5. 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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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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 Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) by Alastair Reynolds

6. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Chasm City

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has bee… read more

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  • mystery
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Dead Pig Collector

By: Warren Ellis

3.81

Format: 215 pages, ebook

From the wicked imagination of award-winning writer Warren Ellis comes DEAD PIG COLLECTOR, a love s… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Slow Bullets

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, be… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

10. The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating n… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1) by H. Beam Piper

11. Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1)

By: H. Beam Piper

3.71

Format: 412 pages,

Friends of Little Fuzzy Vs. the Chartered Zarathustra Company The chartered Zarathustra Company had… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Pandora's Star

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in d… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1) by Harry Harrison

13. 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
  • audiobook

14. Surface Detail (Culture #9)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will no… read more

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15. 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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16. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

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17. Reamde

By: Neal Stephenson

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely m… read more

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18. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

19. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

By: None

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who d… read more

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Cover of Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2) by Bernard Cornwell

20. Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.41

Format: 397 pages, Paperback

The balance of King Arthur's unified kingdom is threatened by Merlin's quest for the last of Britai… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"If you understand everything, then there is no room for magic."

-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."

-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

"Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, a…"

-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

"But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left f…"

-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

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21. The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.26

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal a… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,"

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"Dizem que este Deus (deus cristão) é do perdão. Melhor ofender um desses do que qualquer outro."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"I don't believe he was as bad as you make him sound. Igraine protested. No, I think he was worse."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

22. House of Suns

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more

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23. The Terror

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Iliumand Olympostransforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expeditio… read more

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24. The Android's Dream

By: John Scalzi

4.36

Format: 94 pages,

A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior a… read more

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Cover of Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

25. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

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  • mystery
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Cover of Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

26. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Watch (The Divide, #1) by J.S. Dewes

27. The Last Watch (The Divide, #1)

By: J.S. Dewes

3.96

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Expanse meets Game of Thrones in J. S. Dewes's fast-paced, sci-fi adventure The Last Watch, whe… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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28. The Downloaded

By: Robert J. Sawyer

3.62

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The new novel by Canada's top Science Fiction writer In 2059 two very different groups have their m… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sandman: Act III by Dirk Maggs

29. 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
  • audiobook
Cover of 36 Streets by T.R. Napper

30. 36 Streets

By: T.R. Napper

3.95

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this Ditmar and Aurealis award-winning, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
Cover of Carlucci's Heart by Richard Paul Russo

31. Carlucci's Heart

By: Richard Paul Russo

4.06

Format: 390 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Lt. Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's f… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

23 must-read fiction books like Carlucci's Heart by Richard Paul Russo

Transform Your Habits

Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Iain M. Banks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Hard Goodbye (Sin City #1)

Frank Miller

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Aliens: Bug Hunt

Scott Sigler , Jonathan Maberry , Rachel Caine , Heather Graham , Larry Correia , David Farland

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Crompton Divided

Robert Sheckley

3.44

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16 Top fiction books like The Sandman: Act III by Dirk Maggs

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Locke & Key

Stephen King , Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez , Kate Mulgrew , Haley Joel Osment , None

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Brief Lives (The Sandman #7)

Neil Gaiman , Peter Straub , Jill Thompson , Vince Locke

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Worlds' End (The Sandman #8)

Stephen King , Neil Gaiman , John Watkiss , Mike Allred , Bryan Talbot , Michael Zulli , Mark Buckingham , Vince Locke , Steve Leialoha , Todd Klein , Gary Amaro , Tony Harris , None , Alec Stevens , None

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1)

Travis Beacham

3.98

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