18 must-read fantasy books like The Silverberg Business by Robert Freeman Wexler

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The Silverberg Business

By: Robert Freeman Wexler

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In 1888 in Victoria, Texas, for a simple job, a Chicago private eye gets caught up in the poker gam…

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Cover of Strange Dogs (The Expanse, #6.5) by James S.A. Corey

1. Strange Dogs (The Expanse, #6.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.07

Format: 112 pages, ebook

Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

By: Glen Cook

3.93

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some f… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?"

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

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3. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

By: Mason Currey

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in … read more

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4. Finch (Ambergris, #3)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.10

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

In Finch,mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fant… read more

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5. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: None pages,

Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more

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6. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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7. 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
  • fiction
"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)

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8. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

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10. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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14. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Sister, Maiden, Monster

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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18. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

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19. King Nyx

By: Kirsten Bakis

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the contemporary cult classic, Lives of the Monster Dogs , comes a haunting myst… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
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20. The Labyrinth

By: Simon Stålenhag

4.16

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

A world covered by ruins and ash, the remnants of an otherwordly phenomenon that has ravaged the ea… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Rumor Game

By: Thomas Mullen

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in World War II-e… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Navola

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.92

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Wind-Up Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping li… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1) by Erin M. Evans

24. Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1)

By: Erin M. Evans

3.99

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Magic, mystery, and revolution collide in this fantasy epic where an unlikely team of mages, scribe… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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25. Silver Queendom

By: Dan Koboldt

3.81

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

When you owe money to the biggest criminal in town you are going to need to step up your thieving g… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

26. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2) by Keith Rosson

27. The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2)

By: Keith Rosson

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

No one expected the apocalypse would be broadcast via phone call. But in this chilling sequel to Fe… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Silverberg Business by Robert Freeman Wexler

28. The Silverberg Business

By: Robert Freeman Wexler

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In 1888 in Victoria, Texas, for a simple job, a Chicago private eye gets caught up in the poker gam… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25) by Ian Rankin

29. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)

By: Ian Rankin

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

24 best-selling fiction books like The Silverberg Business by Robert Freeman Wexler

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James S.A. Corey

4.07

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Glen Cook

3.93

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Gary Gibson

4.17

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Cory Doctorow

4.13

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