16 must-read fiction books like R Is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury

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R Is for Rocket

By: Ray Bradbury

5.00

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: Introduction * in R Is for Rocket ["King of the Gray Spaces"] * ss Famous Fantastic Myste…

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1. Hondo

By: Louis L'Amour

4.06

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the A… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say."

-Louis L'Amour, Hondo

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2. The Adventures of Augie March

By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow

3.84

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March

"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March

"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March

"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March

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3. A Son of the Circus

By: John Irving

3.91

Format: None pages,

A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffe… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Deadeye Dick

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Deadeye Dickis Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. Player Piano

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Jailbird

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jailbirdtakes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. The Nine Billion Names of God

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

This collection of science fiction short stories includes: * The Nine Billion Names of God * I Reme… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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8. Matter (Culture, #8)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

9. Alien

By: Alan Dean Foster

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Based on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sle… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Inversions (Culture, #6) by Iain M. Banks

10. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of R Is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury

12. R Is for Rocket

By: Ray Bradbury

5.00

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: Introduction * in R Is for Rocket ["King of the Gray Spaces"] * ss Famous Fantastic Myste… read more

Similar categories in Ray Bradbury's R Is for Rocket book and Ray Bradbury's R Is for Rocket

  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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13. The Puppet Masters

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.89

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the wh… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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14. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barre… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

15. The High Crusade

By: Poul Anderson

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edwa… read more

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16. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

By: Alan Sillitoe

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Arthur Seaton, Key worker on a lathe in a Nottingham cycle factory, life is one long battle with… read more

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17. Earthlight

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.42

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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18. 2010: Odyssey Two

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the nov… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Humor was the enemy of desire."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

19. The Damnation Game

By: Clive Barker

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gamb… read more

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20. Nostromo

By: Joseph Conrad

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South Amer… read more

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21. The Store

By: Bentley Little

3.81

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A malevolent presence has come to a small desert town, and the customers of this superstore may get… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here."

-Bentley Little, The Store

"Human beings' capacity to adjust to almost anything was supposed to be one of their greatest virtues, but it was also one of their greatest weaknesses. It rendered them compliant, allowed them to be …"

-Bentley Little, The Store

"He stared out the window and found himself thinking of that old Randy Newman song, "It's Money That Matters." It was money that mattered, wasn't it? He shook his head. Times had changed. Twenty years…"

-Bentley Little, The Store

8 Best fantasy books like R Is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury

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The Nine Billion Names of God

Arthur C. Clarke

3.86

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Matter (Culture, #8)

Iain M. Banks

3.35

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Inversions (Culture, #6)

Iain M. Banks

3.30

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R Is for Rocket

Ray Bradbury

5.00

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12 best-selling fiction books like At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft

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The Sea Watch (Shadows of the Apt, #6)

Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.98

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Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying (Call of Cthulhu RPG)

Sandy Petersen , Lynn Willis

4.45

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The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

Arthur Machen

3.69

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Couples

John Updike

4.26

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