The Swimmers
By: Marian Womack
2.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author…
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1. The Deep
By: Nick Cutter
3.42
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I co… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fiction
"What are you so afraid of? said that same voice inside Luke’s head. Everything, another voice answered."-Nick Cutter, The Deep
"Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at mysel…"-Nick Cutter, The Deep
"The water wasn't the same down here. Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, wa…"-Nick Cutter, The Deep
2. 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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- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"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)
3. Everything's Eventual
By: Stephen King
3.97
Format: 605 pages, Paperback
In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for g… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Time belongs to the Tower."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"A broken spoon may become a fork."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
"I decided it didn't matter a fuck in a rabbit hutch."-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual
4. The Eyes of the Dragon
By: Stephen King
3.94
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons… Thus begins one of the most u… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"Never will you talk to me like that again."-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
"Sleep is often denied to those with secrets."-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
"A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will."-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
"His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time."-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
5. Last Days
By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more
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- fiction
6. Death Troopers
By: Joe Schreiber
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless k… read more
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7. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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8. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , Terry Bisson , Tara Betts , Tananarive Due , David F. Walker , Kalamu ya Salaam , Bao Phi , LeVar Burton , Alexis Pauline Gumbs , Walidah Imarisha , None , Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha , Autumn Brown , Adrienne Maree Brown , None , None , None , None , None , None , Dani McClain , None , None
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing vis… read more
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9. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
10. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
11. The Terraformers
By: Annalee Newitz
3.37
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
12. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
13. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
14. 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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- fantasy
- fiction
15. Lean Fall Stand
By: Jon McGregor
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
16. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- fiction
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
17. Lanny
By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
18. The Book of Accidents
By: Chuck Wendig
3.73
Format: 530 pages, Hardcover
Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his fam… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
19. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
20. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
21. Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)
By: Darren Charlton
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winter was the only season every Lake-Lander feared... In a post-apocalyptic America, a communit… read more
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- dystopia
- fantasy
- fiction
"Open places make you consider yourself?" "Yeah," said Cooper. "Like the plains." "And the stars?" "Uh-huh. And the sea and the desert too, Pa says. But I dunno why that is." Peter shrugged. "Perhaps …"-Darren Charlton, Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)
"Cooper didn't look away. His blue eyes pierced through the tendrils of his hair like a wolf in the woods. He held Peter's gaze. He didn't smile, but Peter saw one all the same. He didn't speak and ye…"-Darren Charlton, Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)
22. The Deep Sky
By: Yume Kitasei
3.71
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky
23. Shielded (Shielded, #1)
By: KayLynn Flanders
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Library Binding
For fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Furyborn comes a thrilling new fantasy about a kingdom ravaged by… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Don't dwell on your past - it's not where you're going"-KayLynn Flanders, Shielded (Shielded, #1)
"There was no time to think. No time to decide. My instincts were all I had left."-KayLynn Flanders, Shielded (Shielded, #1)
"If I walked away from this clearing, from this family, I could never leave the path I was choosing. I had to be all in, or all out...I wanted to stay, but I wouldn't. I remembered."-KayLynn Flanders, Shielded (Shielded, #1)
24. More Perfect
By: Temi Oh
3.69
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, for fans of Becky Chambers and William Gib… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
25. Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
By: Terry Miles
3.64
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly undergrou… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"We each had our reasons for wanting the fantastical world promised by Rabbits to replace the flawed emotional narrative of our real lives."-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
"The world felt smaller from that vantage point, and much easier to understand. Life was messy and complicated when you were in the middle of it, while it was rushing toward you from all angles, close…"-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
26. Nightrender (Salvation Cycle, #1)
By: Jodi Meadows
3.61
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Kingdoms will fall, gods will die, and hearts will be broken in this sprawling new fantasy from New… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
27. Midnight, Water City (The Water City Trilogy, #1)
By: Chris McKinney
3.34
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sor… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- adult
- fiction
28. The Mind of a Bee
By: Lars Chittka
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive min… read more
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"American writer and biologist Frederick Kenyon (1867-1941) was the first to explore the inner workings of the bee brain. His 1896 study, in which he managed to dye and characterize numerous types of …"-Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee
29. Desert Creatures
By: Kay Chronister
3.50
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. … read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
30. The Thief on the Winged Horse
By: Kate Mascarenhas
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The Kendrick family have been making world-famous dolls since the early 1800s. But their dolls aren… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
31. The Swimmers
By: Marian Womack
2.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author… read more
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- adult fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- climate change fiction
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