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by Mat Johnson
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by Quan Barry
Published Oct 2025
Read ReviewsFrom the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East, a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America's racial legacy.
by Jasper Fforde
Published Sep 2021
Read ReviewsA new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series.
by Gish Jen
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsThe time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica. The land: half under water. The Internet: one part artificial intelligence, one part surveillance technology, and oddly human--even funny. The people: Divided.
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day.
by Matthew Pearl
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsThe acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl's spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word "technology" represents a bold and frightening new concept.
The Secret History of Costaguana
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsTragic and despairing, comic and insightful, The Secret History of Costaguana is a masterpiece of historical invention.
by China Mieville
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsWith Embassytown Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.
by Jasper Fforde
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsAn astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde: Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds.
by Victor LaValle
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsA fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.
by Dan Simmons
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsThe men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph; part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, they set out in the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage. Years later, trapped in a landscape of encroaching ice and darkness, endlessly cold, and with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive as an ...
by Steven Barnes
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsA passionate and richly imagined epic of courage, survival, and revelation on a slave plantation in the old South...the African-ruled South. "History turned upside downa bold, daring speculation."
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