15 best-selling science fiction books like The Butterfly Kid by Chester Anderson

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The Butterfly Kid

By: Chester Anderson

3.65

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the first novel in the "Greenwich Village Trilogy." Anderson's semi-autobiographical novel …

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1. The Demolished Man

By: Alfred Bester

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using t…"

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheter…"

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

Cover of 334 by Thomas M. Disch

2. 334

By: Thomas M. Disch

3.64

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, pas… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"The end of the world. Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's been lovely. I mean it. Nobody tries to bother you. You can relax. …"

-Thomas M. Disch, 334

Cover of The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2) by Philip José Farmer

3. The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

By: Philip José Farmer

3.87

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer introduces readers to the awesome Riverworld, a … read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"By the shattered hymen of Thor's bride!"

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Out of nothing I come, through a world populated by asses I pass, and into nothing I go."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

Cover of The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2) by Caleb Carr

4. The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)

By: Caleb Carr

4.00

Format: 770 pages, Kindle Edition

June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked d… read more

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  • fiction
"Maybe memory was just a wicked curse, and the kind of mind what could wipe out painful recollections a blessing. Maybe ....."

-Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)

"Zawsze wydawało mi się, że istnieją dwa typy ludzi: ci, którzy podniecają się wszystkim, co wiążę się - jak by to ująć - dziwakami, i ci, których to nie rusza."

-Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)

"She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren…"

-Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)

"And so the new century will bring a new kind of law,' was how Mr. Picton summed things up..... 'Proceedings where victims and witnesses are put on trial instead of defendants, where a murderer in ide…"

-Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)

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5. Ape and Essence

By: Aldous Huxley

3.74

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
"The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much."

-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence

"It is a scene of Satyrs and Nymphs, of pursuits and captures, provocative resistances followed by the enthusiastic surrender of lips to bearded lips, of panting bosoms to the impatience of rough hand…"

-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence

"- Da, e lucru îngrozitor să cazi în mâinile răului reîncarnat. - Atunci, întreabă doctorul Poole, de ce continuați să-L venerați? - De ce arunci mâncare unui tigru care mârăie?Ca să câștigi un moment…"

-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence

Cover of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

6. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.96

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless Y… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
"Sons of suicides seldom do well."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"God damn it, you've got to be kind."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"May I ask you a highly personal question?" "It's what life does all the time."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Cover of Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick

7. Confessions of a Crap Artist

By: Philip K. Dick

3.55

Format: 199 pages,

Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

8. 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
  • novels
  • fiction
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9. The Death Ship

By: B. Traven

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Death Ship tells the story of an American sailor, stateless and penniless because he has lost h… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Foundation Pit by Mirra Ginsburg, Andrei Platonov, Andrey Platonov

10. The Foundation Pit

By: Mirra Ginsburg , Andrei Platonov , Andrey Platonov

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

The Foundation Pitportrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundati… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) by Connie Willis

11. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)

By: Connie Willis

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at h… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Riddley Walker

By: Russell Hoban

4.17

Format: None pages,

In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Wal… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

13. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)

By: Philip José Farmer

4.54

Format: None pages,

To Your Scattered Bodies Gois the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip J… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Spin (Spin, #1) by Robert Charles Wilson

14. Spin (Spin, #1)

By: Robert Charles Wilson

3.66

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein

15. Farnham's Freehold

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, h… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1) by William S. Burroughs

16. The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)

By: William S. Burroughs

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventur… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Butterfly Kid by Chester Anderson

17. The Butterfly Kid

By: Chester Anderson

3.65

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the first novel in the "Greenwich Village Trilogy." Anderson's semi-autobiographical novel … read more

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  • novels
  • sci fi fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

18. The Tin Drum

By: Günter Grass

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wield… read more

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19. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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20. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

21. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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22. Waldo and Magic, Inc

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

North Power-Air was in trouble. Their aircraft had begun to crash at an alarming rate, and no one c… read more

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23. Earth Abides

By: George R. Stewart

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more

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24. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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25. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction

26. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)

By: Mervyn Peake

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradi… read more

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27. Bill, the Galactic Hero (Bill, #1)

By: Harry Harrison

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-… read more

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28. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more

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29. The Computer Connection

By: Alfred Bester

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess… read more

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30. Norstrilia

By: Cordwainer Smith

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rod McBan is only a boy from the planet 'Norstrilia', Old North Australia, where rich farmers grow … read more

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Cover of Saga, Volume 11 by Brian K. Vaughan

31. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

20 Best fiction books like The Butterfly Kid by Chester Anderson

Transform Your Habits

The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

Transform Your Habits

334

Thomas M. Disch

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

Philip José Farmer

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)

Caleb Carr

4.00

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13 must-read fiction books like By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.88

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None

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My Documents

Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

4.36

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