5 must-read science fiction books like Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman

Deadly City

By: Paul W. Fairman

3.22

Format: None pages, Nook

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If you liked the science fiction plot in Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Sandra M Gilbert

1. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Cover of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

2. Lincoln in the Bardo

By: George Saunders

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more

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3. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • short stories
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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4. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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5. The Long Walk

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.08

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual gr… read more

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  • science fiction
"Love is a fake!"

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Another time, another place."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Better to be dirty than dead."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

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6. The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more

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  • science fiction
"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

Cover of Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41) by Agatha Christie

7. Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

By: Agatha Christie

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile th… read more

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"Put that in your mustache and smoke it."

-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

"You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder."

-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

"Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there."

-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

"Nobody would ever get anything done nowadays if they weren't in a hurry."

-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

8. The Other

By: Thomas Tryon

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. Holland is bold and mischievous, a b… read more

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9. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: None pages,

Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more

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10. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) by Cormac McCarthy

11. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

Cover of The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

12. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

By: Tom Hanks

3.70

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-st… read more

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"Are you a clairvoyant?"

-Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

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13. 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

Cover of Severance by Ling  Ma

14. Severance

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more

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  • science fiction
"New York has a way of forgetting you."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."

-Ling Ma, Severance

Cover of Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3) by Stephen        King

15. Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3)

By: Stephen King

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and … read more

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  • science fiction

16. Deadly City

By: Paul W. Fairman

3.22

Format: None pages, Nook

This work has been previously published and carefully edited by humans to be read digitally on your… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

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