10 Top novels books like Walking on Glass by Iain Banks

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Walking on Glass

By: Iain Banks

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Graham Park is in love. But Sara ffitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery.…

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1. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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2. Against a Dark Background

By: Iain M. Banks

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families. Sharrow was once the leader of… read more

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"We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it."

-Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

"He might come in useful.' 'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head."

-Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

"It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves."

-Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

"She walked away down the broad grey curve of the causeway, the rain spattering her face while the evil-smelling wind whipped her hair, and realised with some surprise that, after nearly eight years o…"

-Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

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3. Glue

By: Irvine Welsh

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the ex… read more

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  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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4. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.28

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more

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"Escape is a commodity like anything else"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"Escape is a commodity like anything else."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

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5. Walking on Glass

By: Iain Banks

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Graham Park is in love. But Sara ffitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery.… read more

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  • british literature
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  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
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6. Feersum Endjinn

By: Iain M. Banks

3.84

Format: 311 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After dying seven times, Count Alandre Sessine VII has only one life remaining, and he becomes a fu… read more

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"At one end of the vast C bitten from the castle a sin­gle great bastion-tower stood, almost intact, five kilometres high, and casting a kilometre-wide shadow across the rum­pled ground in front of th…"

-Iain M. Banks, Feersum Endjinn

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7. Inversions (Culture, #6)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On a backwards world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Look to Windward (Culture, #7)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Despera… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

9. The Inverted World

By: Christopher Priest

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Fallen Dragon

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.19

Format: 416 pages,

Deploying invulnerable twenty-fifth-century soldiers called Skins, Zantiu-Braun's corporate starshi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

11. Surface Detail (Culture #9)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will no… read more

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12. The Algebraist

By: Iain M. Banks

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasquer… read more

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13. Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.16

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section's moral espionage weapon, the very cuttin… read more

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"They also,"

-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

"Do you want to work with us?"

-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

"Can I cuddle up with you when you sleep?"

-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

"I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk."

-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

14. Transition

By: Iain M. Banks

3.50

Format: 295 pages,

There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of t… read more

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15. The Shrine

By: James Herbert

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alice, a deaf-mute, has a vision of a lady in white who says she is the immaculate conception. Sudd… read more

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16. The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his … read more

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17. The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

By: Cory Doctorow

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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18. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

By: Cory Doctorow

3.90

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
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"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."

-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

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19. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. 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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21. Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1)

By: Ken MacLeod

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'An exceptional blend of international politics, hard science, and first contact' Michael Mammay, a… read more

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16 Top fiction books like Walking on Glass by Iain Banks

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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Iain M. Banks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Against a Dark Background

Iain M. Banks

4.11

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Glue

Irvine Welsh

3.31

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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

Iain M. Banks

4.28

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17 must-read fiction books like Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

Mark Lawrence

4.10

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