6 best-selling fantasy books like Conan: the Songs of the Dead and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale

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Conan: the Songs of the Dead and Other Stories

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.33

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Conan aids an old ally in the wretched wastes of Stygia - a harsh desert that harbors undreamed-of …

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1. Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.05

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Read "Drive", a Prequel to The Expanse series. The Expanse, premiering in December 2015 on Syfy,… read more

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"The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction."

-James S.A. Corey, Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

"Acceleration is pressing his eyeballs out of their right shape. High tech astigmatism."

-James S.A. Corey, Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

"On Mars, the joke went, a man’s hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room."

-James S.A. Corey, Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

"That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter."

-James S.A. Corey, Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

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2. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Star Trek: The Original Series Unnumbered; Movie Novelization #4)

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

3.96

Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Admiral James T. Kirk is charged by the Klingon Empire for the comandeering of a Klingon starship. … read more

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3. Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.99

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

The third book in the multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series The o… read more

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"It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)

"The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)

"Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet t…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)

"...the real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that grows up in the heart when people are jealous of one another and cannot speak these feelings and dr…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)

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4. The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.01

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Life is never without its problems… read more

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"The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

"That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

"A traditional house smelled of wood smoke, the earth, and of thatch; all good smells, the smell of life itself."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

"She had a great respect for books herself, and she wished that she had read more. One could never read enough. Never."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

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5. Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.98

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Older cover edition of 9780349116655. In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency… read more

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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo , crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Pro…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

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6. Conan the Rebel

By: Poul Anderson

3.67

Format: 230 pages,

A grand adventure of the mighty thewed barbarian, from one of Fantasy's biggest names Conan, The na… read more

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  • fantasy
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7. Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth … read more

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  • fantasy
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8. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #10)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe … read more

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9. Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, s… read more

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10. The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #9)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.40

Format: None pages,

Under the endless skies of Botswana, there is always something Mma Ramotswe can do to help someone … read more

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11. The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)

By: Robert E. Howard , Mark Schultz , Patrice Louinet

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellaneadrafts, notes, maps by author. Cimmeria … read more

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12. Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series The gates have ope… read more

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13. James Bond, Vol. 2: Eidolon

By: Warren Ellis , Jason Masters

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Hardcover

James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles, under fire alongside another MI6 agent with a foreign intelli… read more

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14. James Bond, Vol. 1: VARGR

By: Warren Ellis , Jason Masters

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of … read more

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15. James Bond: Black Box

By: Benjamin Percy , Rapha Lobosco

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In the snowbound French Alps, James Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of an assassin who targets… read more

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16. Tales from the Perilous Realm

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.03

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more

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  • fantasy
"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

17. James Bond: Hammerhead

By: Andy Diggle , Luca Casalanguida

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

James Bond is assigned to hunt down and eliminate Kraken, a radical anti-capitalist who has targete… read more

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18. The Butcher of Anderson Station (The Expanse, #0.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.62

Format: None pages,

A new story set in the world of The Expanse. One day, Colonel Fred Johnson will be hailed as a hero… read more

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19. James Bond: Felix Leiter

By: James Robinson , Aaron Campbell

3.06

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Felix Leiter finds himself in Japan, tracking down a beautiful, Russian spy from his past. But when… read more

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20. The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5)

By: Jim Butcher

4.40

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

From the number one New York Times bestselling The Dresden Files series, a brand new novella set af… read more

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  • fantasy
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21. Star Trek: The Q Conflict

By: Scott Tipton

3.72

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

The captains of the Original Series, The Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine meet for the… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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22. James Bond: Origin, Vol. 1

By: Jeff Parker

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

At last, the definitive account of James Bond's exploits during World War II! MARCH, 1941: Seven… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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23. James Bond: The Body

By: Aleš Kot

3.62

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

What makes James Bond? Brain. Gut. Heart. Lungs. Body… …and what about the soul? In James … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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24. James Bond 007, Vol. 2

By: Greg Pak

3.66

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A friendship is finished. The world is in peril. And Goldfinger wants diamonds? You think you know… read more

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25. James Bond 007, Vol. 1

By: Greg Pak

3.66

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Agent 007 tracks a smuggler into Singapore to secure a dangerous case, contents unknown. But a Kore… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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26. James Bond: Origin, Vol. 2

By: Jeff Parker

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

War Bond Continues. The definitive account of James Bond's exploits during World War II! It is late… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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27. James Bond: Kill Chain

By: Andy Diggle

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

When a counterespionage operation in Rotterdam goes catastrophically wrong, James Bond finds himsel… read more

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  • graphic novels
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28. James Bond: Case Files

By: Kieron Gillen

3.61

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

This volume contains four exhilarating stand-alone Bond stories from superstar creators! Kieron Gil… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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29. King Conan

By: Jason Aaron

4.01

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar return to the saga of Conan, to present the Barbarian’s last stand at … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fantasy
Cover of James Bond: Agent of Spectre by Christos Gage

30. James Bond: Agent of Spectre

By: Christos Gage

3.65

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

There's a civil war brewing within SPECTRE. An upstart American member of the international crimina… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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31. Conan: the Songs of the Dead and Other Stories

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.33

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Conan aids an old ally in the wretched wastes of Stygia - a harsh desert that harbors undreamed-of … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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3.72

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3.94

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3.62

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3.66

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3.79

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4.13

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4.52

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3.46

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