The Fortress
By: George R.R. Martin
3.00
Format: None pages, None
A short story about the Siege of Sveaborg, written by Martin as a history paper for college.
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1. Borne (Borne, #1)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.93
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more
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"People with packs are people with purpose."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
2. Warbreaker (Warbreaker, #1)
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.67
Format: 230 pages, ebook
After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris,and following up wit… read more
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3. The Illustrated Man
By: Ray Bradbury
4.13
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to … read more
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"Oh, death in space was most humorous."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Nothing ever likes to die--not even a room. (p.23 --> The Veldt)"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
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5. Tell-All
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.40
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
The hyperactive love child of Page Sixand Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?caught in a tawdry love tr… read more
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6. Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
By: Steven Erikson , Gabriel Stoian
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers … read more
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7. The Girl with All the Gifts
By: M.R. Carey
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie … read more
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8. The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn, #0.5)
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.95
Format: 128 pages, ebook
Also available in . "This story was written specifically for the Mistborn Adventure Game, a tablet… read more
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9. The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
By: Patrick Rothfuss , Nate Taylor
3.88
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient pa… read more
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"Estaba harta de ser tan única."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"Some days simply lay on you like stones."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"...and he was absolutely not a selas sort."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"Her name was like an echo of an ache in her."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
10. The Wasp Factory
By: Iain Banks
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more
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11. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)
By: Gene Wolfe
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more
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12. Secret History (Mistborn, #3.5)
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.50
Format: 24 pages,
Mistborn: Secret Historyis a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains… read more
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13. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth
3.95
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more
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"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
14. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
By: Stephen King
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
A man convicted of murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by… read more
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15. Meathouse Man
By: George R.R. Martin , Raya Golden
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on the short story by George R.R. Martin, bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, Meathouse … read more
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16. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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17. Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania
By: Brandon Sanderson
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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18. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
19. The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which include… read more
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"This heavy, grass-loving dog,"-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
"He who leaps at the moon Into cowshyte falls. Glory unto cowshyte!"-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
"When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety."-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
"Funny how an attack by a sea monster makes everyone less interested in a duel."-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
20. 1979 Short Stories (Study Guide): The Way of Cross and Dragon
By: Books LLC
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book cl… read more
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21. The Fortress
By: George R.R. Martin
3.00
Format: None pages, None
A short story about the Siege of Sveaborg, written by Martin as a history paper for college. read more
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