7 must-read fantasy books like Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

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Bad Monkeys

By: Matt Ruff

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret orga…

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1. Big Machine

By: Victor LaValle

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us. Ricky… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Solipsist

By: Henry Rollins

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"I saw the word Solipsist while reading the dictionary in 1993. I was living in NYC at the time and… read more

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3. Bad Monkeys

By: Matt Ruff

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret orga… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction

4. Der Planet Trillaphon im Verhältnis zur Üblen Sache

By: David Foster Wallace , Ulrich Blumenbach

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Wer das Wesen der Krankheit Depression verstehen will, muss diesen Text lesen Eine fruhe Erzahlung … read more

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5. Kalki

By: Gore Vidal

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Once again, Vidal takes on the unmitigated folly born of the unholy partnership of religion, the me… read more

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6. The Silver Metal Lover (Silver Metal Lover, #1)

By: Tanith Lee

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood.... Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking … read more

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7. The End of the Day

By: Claire North

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Charlie has a new job. He gets to travel, and he meets interesting people, some of whom are actuall… read more

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8. The Rise of Io

By: Wesley Chu

4.50

Format: 176 pages, ebook

Ella Patel - thief, con-artist and smuggler - is in the wrong place at the wrong time. One night, o… read more

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9. Lint

By: Steve Aylett

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steve Aylett has always gone a step farther than his contemporaries. In Slaughtermatic, he pushed t… read more

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10. The Raw Shark Texts

By: Steven Hall

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to… read more

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11. Blueprints of the Afterlife

By: Ryan Boudinot

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

From the "wickedly talented" (Boston Globe)and "darkly funny" (New York Times Book Review)Ryan Boud… read more

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12. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

Cover of Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3) by Jason Pargin

13. Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3)

By: Jason Pargin

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual music festival in the desert, which every year precedes t… read more

Similar categories in Jason Pargin's Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3) book and Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Sunburn (Key West, #3)

By: Laurence Shames

4.16

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

"More than a thriller—it’s an escape from reality and the perfect tonic at the end of a hard day.”—… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Dog's constipated," said Bert the Shirt. "Who isn't?" said the Godfather."

-Laurence Shames, Sunburn (Key West, #3)

"In Joey's neighborhood the blocks were short and there were stop signs on every corner. It was hard to get going more than fifteen miles an hour, and on those lazy streets Joey's refurbished 1973 El …"

-Laurence Shames, Sunburn (Key West, #3)

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15. Dual Memory

By: Sue Burke

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis , returns with Dual Memory, a standalone novel bl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

16. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) book and Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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17. Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

TYRANTS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE RAISED. ANCIENT ROME, AD 37 It begins with a man’s hand curled aro… read more

Similar categories in Conn Iggulden's Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1) book and Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys

  • fiction
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18. The Golem of Brooklyn

By: Adam Mansbach

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. Devil's Gun (Disco Space Opera #2)

By: Cat Rambo

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

No one escapes their past as the crew of the You Sexy Thing attempts to navigate the hazards of ope… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12) by Anna Lee Huber

20. A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.24

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, hope they’ve finally found peace after a … read more

Similar categories in Anna Lee Huber's A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12) book and Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys

  • mystery
  • fiction
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21. Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge

By: Harlan Coben

3.70

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The world's greatest thriller writers prove they're up to a unique challenge in this exciting antho… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Coben's Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge book and Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

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Martha Wells

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Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

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