5 must-read horror books like The White Plague by Frank Herbert

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The White Plague

By: Frank Herbert

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

An IRA bomb goes off on 5/20/96. Molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill's wife & children are killed.…

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Cover of Out of the Dark (Out of the Dark, #1) by David Weber

1. Out of the Dark (Out of the Dark, #1)

By: David Weber

3.49

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability th… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food."

-David Weber, Out of the Dark (Out of the Dark, #1)

"Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear…"

-David Weber, Out of the Dark (Out of the Dark, #1)

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2. Strip Tease

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.87

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

No matter what you heard or thought about the movie version of Strip Tease, forget it. Film simply … read more

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  • fiction
"But Erin let it slide. The child was only four years old; she had a whole lifetime to learn about sadness. Today was for Dalmatians, ice cream and new dolls."

-Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease

"Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty."

-Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease

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3. The Complete Double Dead (Tomes of The Dead)

By: Chuck Wendig

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A VAMPIRE IN ZOMBIELAND You wouldn’t like Coburn. People don’t, as a rule. And that’s okay, becaus… read more

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  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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4. The Winds of Dune (Heroes of Dune, #2)

By: Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson

3.79

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herb… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Sandworms of Dune (Dune Chronicles #8)

By: Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson

3.75

Format: 132 pages,

At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune,a ship carrying a crew of refugees es… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Inferno (Inferno, #1)

By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the 6th Pocket printing. Cover Artist: Harry Bennett After being thrown out the window of h… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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7. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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8. Have Space Suit—Will Travel

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.37

Format: 224 pages,

Kip from midwest Centerville USA works the summer before college as a pharmacy soda jerk, and wins … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Friday

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

"One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

"[A person], having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

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10. The White Plague

By: Frank Herbert

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

An IRA bomb goes off on 5/20/96. Molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill's wife & children are killed.… read more

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  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

11. Bleeding Edge

By: Thomas Pynchon

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City,… read more

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12. Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across … read more

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13. Hunters of Dune (Dune Chronicles #7)

By: Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson

5.00

Format: 229 pages,

Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines … read more

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14. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

By: Robert A. Heinlein

2.83

Format: 64 pages,

When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames… read more

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15. The Number of the Beast

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under a… read more

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16. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

By: Kate Wilhelm

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, throu… read more

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17. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

By: None

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

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18. Snow

By: Ronald Malfi

3.62

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Todd Curry wants nothing more than to spend Christmas with his son. But when a brutal snowstorm can… read more

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19. House Harkonnen (Prelude to Dune #2)

By: Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson

3.62

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing … read more

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20. Time Enough for Love

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.97

Format: 612 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Starship Troopers and the first Grand Master of Scien… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
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"Sense is never common."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

"Never try to outstubborn a cat."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

"Live and learn, or you don't live long."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Cover of Princess of Dune by Brian Herbert

21. Princess of Dune

By: Brian Herbert

3.89

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

Set two years before Dune, Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the… read more

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David Weber

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3.87

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Chuck Wendig

3.87

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3.79

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Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

Frank Herbert

3.86

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God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

Frank Herbert

3.88

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3.89

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