6 must-read science fiction books like A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer

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A Superior Spectre

By: Angela Meyer

3.48

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to rem…

If you liked the science fiction plot in A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. People of the Book

By: Geraldine Brooks

3.00

Format: 96 pages,

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript throu… read more

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2. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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3. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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4. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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5. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Ghost Book

By: Remy Lai

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Spirited Away, Coco, and Ghosts comes a contemporary fantasy graphic novel abou… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. Songbirds

By: Christy Lefteri

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance … read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

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8. Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.00

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propul… read more

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  • fiction
"Harbinder paces her office. She still can’t stop herself thinking, Look at me with an office big enough to pace in ."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"How many times can you reminisce about school? She doesn’t think Talgarth High has ever tried to gather its former students. To be fair, it would be hard with so many of them electronically tagged."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Aren’t you a Christian though?’ She remembers a comment about St Peter’s Italian church. ‘Not really,’ says Kim. ‘I just pick the bits I like from every religion. Is there a word for that?’ ‘Heretic,…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Gary’s made a bit of a name for himself. He’s always in the papers going on about climate change being a hoax. That’s why I was surprised ….’ ‘Surprised by what,’ prompts Harbinder because the singer…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

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9. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

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"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

Cover of Traitors Gate (William Warwick, #6) by Jeffrey Archer

10. Traitors Gate (William Warwick, #6)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.18

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

THE TOWER OF LONDON… Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on ear… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Archer's Traitors Gate (William Warwick, #6) book and Angela Meyer's A Superior Spectre

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1) by Juno  Dawson

11. Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)

By: Juno Dawson

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches;… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Overdue (The Library Trilogy, #1.5)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.25

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a 12,000 word short story featuring Yute and Wentworth from The Book That Wouldn't Burn. It… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • time travel
Cover of The North Wind (The Four Winds, #1) by Alexandria Warwick

13. The North Wind (The Four Winds, #1)

By: Alexandria Warwick

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Inspired by Beauty and the Beast and the myth of Hades and Persephone, this lush and enchanting ene… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. The Family Doctor

By: Debra Oswald

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Paula is a dedicated suburban GP, who is devastated by the murder of a friend and her children by t… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
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15. This Devastating Fever

By: Sophie Cunningham

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Le… read more

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  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1) by Lili Wilkinson

16. A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

By: Lili Wilkinson

3.51

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Except now there is a raven in the rowan tree."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"What good are stories when the monsters are real?"

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"A girl so full of wildness and passion and rage that maybe she couldn't contain the whole of herself."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"If you stay home all the time, stories never happen. Sometimes you have to break something in order for the story to leak out through the cracks."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

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17. Returns (The Library Trilogy, #1.6)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.26

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

Two short stories associated with The Library Trilogy. These are tangential and don't have to be f… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

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  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Every Version of You

By: Grace Chan

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time insid… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
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20. Red River Road

By: Anna Downes

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
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21. Gemini Falls

By: Sean Wilson

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Melbourne, 1930, as the Great Depression is taking hold: Thirteen-year-old Morris Turner, a little … read more

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  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. The Sirens

By: Emilia Hart

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can ima… read more

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  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Stranger

By: Kathryn Hore

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An uncompromising and compelling feminist Western for readers of The Natural Way of Things. In D… read more

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  • australia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. 17 Years Later

By: J.P. Pomare

4.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Is the truth sometimes best left buried? A crime masterpiece by bestselling author J. P. Pomare… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Cyn by Ibrahim Moustafa

25. Cyn

By: Ibrahim Moustafa

4.00

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Haunted by her past lives, both as a human and as the cybernetic enforcer known as Cyn, Meris is de… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of The Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome, #1) by Catherine Doyle

26. The Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome, #1)

By: Catherine Doyle

4.12

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the number one bestselling author Catherine Doyle comes the most fiery enemies-to-lovers roman… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Sera, this guy is obsessed", said Bibi. "He can't take his eyes off you. I can't tell if he wants to ravish you or murder you."

-Catherine Doyle, The Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome, #1)

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27. The Fog

By: Brooke Hardwick

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman on the brink travels to a remote writers' retreat to uncover the secrets of her past – and … read more

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28. Into the Storm

By: Cecelia Ahern

3.59

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Surviving the storm is only the beginning…It is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya… read more

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29. Lonely Girl

By: Lynne Vincent McCarthy

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

He knows he's innocent. She knows he's a killer. Who do you believe? In the shadow of a mountain… read more

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30. The Desert Knows Her Name

By: Lia Hills

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Listen deeply now, if you remember how and why. On a hot October afternoon, a girl walks barefoo… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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31. A Superior Spectre

By: Angela Meyer

3.48

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to rem… read more

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  • time travel
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 21st century
  • australia
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction

25 must-read fiction books like A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

Patrick O'Brian

4.07

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Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Treacle Walker

Alan Garner

3.13

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The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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John Scalzi

4.16

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