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— L —
La Farge, PaulThe Night Ocean
Lackey, Mercedes and Libbey, SteveThe Secret World Chronicle
Lafferty, MurSix Wakes
Lamb, HaroldHannibal: One Man Against Rome
Lamplighter, L. JagiThe Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin
The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel
Rachel and the Many-Splendored Dreamland
The Awful Truth About Forgetting
The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering
Landay, WilliamDefending Jacob
Langan, JohnHouse of Windows
Lansing, AlfredEndurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Larson, B.V.Steel World
Lebbon, TimRelics
The Folded Land
The Edge
Leckie, AnnAncillary Justice
Le Carré, JohnThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Mission Song
A Most Wanted Man
Single & Single
Agent Running in the Field
Call For the Dead
Le Guin, Ursula K.The Dispossessed
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Lathe of Heaven
Lee, Chang-RaeOn Such a Full Sea
Lee, Min JinPachinko
Lee, Sharon and Miller, SteveCrystal Soldier
Lehane, DennisShutter Island
Lem, StanislawSolaris
Lemire, JeffSentient
Leonard, ElmoreThe Hot Kid
Leroux, GastonThe Phantom of the Opera
Lessing, DorisThe Good Terrorist
Martha Quest
Levin, IraA Kiss Before Dying
The Stepford Wives
Lewis, MichaelThe Big Short
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Lewis, SinclairElmer Gantry
Lindqvist, John AjvideLet the Right One In
Lippert, G. NormanJames Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
Liu, CixinThe Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Liu, KenThe Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Locke, M. J.Up Against It
London, JackThe Call of the Wild
The Scarlet Plague
White Fang
Long, NathanJane Carver of Waar
Swords of Waar
Love, JohnFaith
Lovecraft, H.P.At the Mountains of Madness
Lukyanenko, SergeiNight Watch
Lynch, ScottThe Lies of Locke Lamora
Red Seas Under Red Skies
— M —
Maberry, JonathanGhost Road Blues
MacNeal, Susan EliaMr. Churchill's Secretary
Magary, DrewThe Hike
Malerman, JoshBird Box
Malfi, RonaldBone White
Small Town Horror
Mamatas, NickStarve Better
Move Under Ground
I Am Providence
Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction
The Second Shooter
Mamet, DavidThe Secret Knowledge
Marchetta, MelinaOn the Jellicoe Road
Mariotte, JeffreyThe Slab
Markopolos, HarryNo One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaLove in the Time of Cholera
Martel, YannLife of Pi
Martin, George R. R.The Skin Trade
Marwood, AlexThe Wicked Girls
The Killer Next Door
The Darkest Secret
The Poison Garden
The Island of Lost Girls
Masalha, NurPalestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Matheson, RichardI Am Legend
Shadow on the Sun
Hell House
Mauldin, John, and Tepper, JonathanEndgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything
Maugham, William SomersetThe Painted Veil
Maxey, JamesNobody Gets the Girl
Burn Baby Burn
McCammon, RobertSwan Song
Speaks the Nightbird
The Border
McCarthy, CormacBlood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West
No Country for Old Men
The Road
Suttree
All the Pretty Horses
McCullough, DavidJohn Adams
McDevitt, JackThe Engines of God
McDowell, MichaelThe Elementals
The Caskey Family Saga
Cold Moon Over Babylon
The Amulet
McEwan, IanThe Cement Garden
McGrath, TimJames Monroe: A Life
McIntosh, WillDefenders
Soft Apocalypse
McKay, EmilyThe Farm
McKenzie, C.B.Bad Country
McKinley, RobinSunshine
McKinty, AdrianThe Cold Cold Ground
I Hear the Sirens in the Street
In the Morning I'll Be Gone
Gun Street Girl
Rain Dogs
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
The Detective Up Late
Hidden River
The Island
Meacham, JonThomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Melville, HermanMoby Dick
Methos, VictorThe Neon Lawyer
A Killer's Wife
Crimson Lake Road
An Unreliable Truth
The Hallows
Miller, DerekNorwegian by Night
American by Day
The Girl in Green
Miller, John JacksonStar Trek: Prey - Hell's Heart
Miller, MadelineCirce
The Song of Achilles
Galatea
Mitchell, DavidThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Cloud Atlas
The Bone Clocks
Ghostwritten
Mitchell, MargaretGone With the Wind
Mitzner, AdamA Conflict of Interest
Dead Certain
A Matter of Will
Never Goodbye
The Best Friend
Modesitt, L.E. Jr.The Magic of Recluce
Mofina, RickIf Angels Fall
Moon, ElizabethSheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion, Book One)
The Speed of Dark
Moorcock, MichaelThe Citadel of Forgotten Myths
Moore, C.L.Black God's Kiss
Moore, ChristopherA Dirty Job
Moore, PerryHero
Moreno, GusThis Thing Between Us
Morgan, Richard K.Altered Carbon
Morrow, James K.Shambling Towards Hiroshima
Mukherjee, SiddharthaThe Emperor of All Maladies
Mullen, ThomasThe Last Town on Earth
The Revisionists
Murakami, HarukiKafka on the Shore
Norwegian Wood
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1Q84
Murata, SayakaConvenience Store Woman
— N —
Nagamatsu, SequoiaHow High We Go in the Dark
Nantus, SherylBlaze of Glory
Heroes Without, Monsters Within
Heroes Lost and Found
Nestor, JamesDeep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
Neuvel, SylvainSleeping Giants
Waking Gods
Only Human
Newport, CalDigital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Neville, StuartThe Ghosts of Belfast
Collusion
Stolen Souls
The Final Silence
Those We Left Behind
Newman, EmmaPlanetfall
Newman, KimMoriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
Niven, Larry, and Pournelle, JerryFallen Angels (with Michael Flynn)
The Mote in God's Eye
Lucifer's Hammer
North, ClaireThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Novik, NaomiA Deadly Education
The Last Graduate
The Golden Enclaves
Nuttall, ChristopherArk Royal
— O —
Oates, Joyce CarolThe Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
O'Brian, PatrickMaster and Commander
O'Brien, TimThe Things They Carried
O'Connor, SinéadRememberings
Odentz, HowardBloody Bloody Apple
Okrent, ArikaIn the Land of Invented Languages
Omori, FujinoIs It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Orlean, SusanThe Orchid Thief
Orczy, Baroness EmmuskaThe Scarlet Pimpernel
Oyebanji, AdamBraking Day
— P —
Palahniuk, ChuckDiary
Damned
Palmer, AdaToo Like the Lightning
Palter, DCTo Kill a Unicorn
Panowich, BrianBull Mountain
Panshin, AlexeiRite of Passage
Patterson, JamesPrivate
Pears, IainArcadia
Penman, Sharon KayWhen Christ and His Saints Slept
Petrosyan, MariamThe Gray House
Pfeffer, Susan BethLife As We Knew It
Philbrick, NathanielIn the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Picoult, JodiThe Tenth Circle
Pierce, FredWhen the Rivers Run Dry
Piper, H. BeamThe Fuzzy Papers (Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens)
Portis, CharlesTrue Grit
Povey, Jennifer R.Transpecial
Powell, AnthonyA Dance to the Music of Time: Part I and Part II
Powers, TimThe Anubis Gates
Down and Out in Purgatory
Pratchett, TerryGoing Postal
Prefer, Nathan N.Leyte: The Soldier's Battle
Preston, L.M.The Pack
Prose, FrancineReading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Like Them
Puzo, MarioThe Godfather
Pynchon, ThomasThe Crying of Lot 49
Inherent Vice
Gravity's Rainbow
— Q —
Qiufan, ChenWaste Tide
— R —
Rajaniemi, HannuThe Quantum Thief
Rawles, James WesleyPatriots
Rayback, Robert J.Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President
Reding, NickMethland
Redling, S.G.Damocles
Reitman, JanetInside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Reynolds, AlastairHouse of Suns
Revelation Space
Terminal World
Pushing Ice
Riddle, A.G.Departure
Ringo, JohnUnder a Graveyard Sky
Riordan, MattThe North Line
Ripley, RonBerkley Street
Roach, MaryPacking for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Roanhorse, RebeccaTrail of Lightning
Storm of Locusts
Roberts, KeithAnita
Roberts, RichardPlease Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon
Quite Contrary
Robertson, Donald J.Stoicism and the Art of Happiness
Robinson, JeremyInfinite
Robinson, Kim StanleyRed Mars
Aurora
Ronson, JonThe Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Rosenberg, CharlesWrite to Die
Death on a High Floor
Long Knives
Paris Ransom
Rosenfield, KatNo One Will Miss Her
Roth, PhilipThe Human Stain
Rothfuss, PatrickThe Name of the Wind
The Wise Man's Fear
Roussel, RaymondLocus Solus
Rowling, J.K.The Casual Vacancy
Ruff, MattLovecraft Country
Rushdie, SalmanMidnight's Children
The Satanic Verses
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Russo, Richard PaulShip of Fools
Rutherfurd, EdwardSarum: The Novel of England
New York
Russka
Paris
Ryan, CarrieThe Forest of Hands and Teeth
— S —
Sa, ShanThe Girl Who Played Go
Sager, RileyFinal Girls
Salkin, DavidDeep Black Sea
Salmonson, Jessica AmandaThe Tomoe Gozen trilogy (Tomoe Gozen, The Golden Naginata, and Thousand Shrine Warrior)
A Silver Thread of Madness
Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman
Samatar, SofiaSelkie Stories Are for Losers
Sanderson, BrandonElantris
The Mistborn trilogy (Mistborn: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages)
The Alloy of Law
Steelheart
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Warbreaker
Skyward
Starsight
Cytonic
Sandison, George2084
Sanford, JasonPlague Birds
Sansom, C. J.Dissolution
Sawyer, Robert J.Factoring Humanity
WWW:Wake
Scalzi, JohnThe Android's Dream
The God Engines
Agent to the Stars
Fuzzy Nation
Redshirts
Old Man's War
Schulberg, BuddWhat Makes Sammy Run?
Selvon, SamThe Lonely Londoners
Shelley, Mary WollstonecraftFrankenstein
Shepherd, MikeKris Longknife: Mutineer
Sherrill, StevenThe Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Simak, Clifford D.Way Station
Simenon, GeorgesPietr the Latvian
Simmons, DanHyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion
Ilium
Olympos
Summer of Night
A Winter Haunting
Simon, DavidHomicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Sinclair, UptonOil!
The Jungle
Sledge, E.B.With the Old Breed
Sloan, RobinSourdough
Slonczewski, JoanThe Children Star
Brain Plague
Smiley, JaneThirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Good Faith
Smith, Alexander McCallThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Smith, Clark AshtonThe End of the Story
Smith, Guy N.Night of the Crabs
Smith, Sherwood and Towbridge, DavidThe Phoenix in Flight
Smith, Tom RobChild 44
Smitherd, LukeKill Someone
Spencer, WenThe Black Wolves of Boston
Eight Million Gods
Spiegelhalter, DavidThe Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
Spurrier, SimonCoda
St. John Mandel, EmilyStation Eleven
Stanton, DougIn Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Steakley, JohnArmor
Vampire$
Steele, AllenCoyote
Apollo's Outcasts
Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete "Near Space" Stories, Expanded Edition
A King of Infinite Space
Stephenson, NealReamde
Seveneves
Anathem
Stephenson, Neal & Nicole GallandThe Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Stirling, S.M.Dies the Fire
Stoker, BramDracula
Stone, NickThe Verdict
Stout, MarthaThe Sociopath Next Door
Strauss, NeilThe Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Strong, LeeA Soldier of Poloda
Stross, CharlesAccelerando
Saturn's Children
Neptune's Brood
The Atrocity Archives
Equoid
Swann, ChristopherShadow of the Lions
Swierczynski, DuaneCalifornia Bear
Swift, E.J.Osiris
Swift, JonathanGulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
Swirsky, RachelIf You Were a Dinosaur, My Love
— T —
Takami, KoushunBattle Royale
Taylor, LainiDaughter of Smoke and Bone
Tchaikovsky, AdrianChildren of Time
Children of Ruin
Children of Memory
Empire in Black and Gold
Dragonfly Falling
Blood of the Mantis
Salute the Dark
The Scarab Path
The Sea Watch
Heirs of the Blade
The Expert System's Brother
The Expert System's Champion
Made Things
Shards of Earth
Eyes of the Void
Tem, Steve Rasnic and MelanieYours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing
Theroux, MarcelFar North
Thomas, ScottKill Creek
Tinti, HannahThe Good Thief
Tobar, HéctorThe Barbarian Nurseries
Toland, JohnThe Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
Toll, Ian W.The Pacific War trilogy (Pacific Crucible, The Conquering Tide, and Twilight of the Gods)
Tolstoy, LeoThe Kreutzer Sonata
War and Peace
Toole, John KennedyA Confederacy of Dunces
Torgersen, BradThe Chaplain's Legacy
The Exchange Officers
Tougias, MichaelThe Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
Tregillis, IanBitter Seeds
The Coldest War
Necessary Evil
Tremblay, PaulA Head Full of Ghosts
TrevanianShibumi
Trollope, AnthonyCan You Forgive Her?
The Way We Live Now
Doctor Thorne
Trussoni, DanielleAngelology
Tuchman, BarbaraThe Zimmermann Telegram
Tyson, TimothyBlood Done Sign My Name
— U —
Ulinich, AnyaPetropolis
Unger, Harlow GilesJohn Quincy Adams
Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman
John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation
— V —
Valente, CatherynneThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
The Habitation of the Blessed
Silently and Very Fast
Deathless
Six-Gun Snow White
Space Opera
Valentine, GenevieveDream Houses
Van Pelt, ShelbyRemarkably Bright Creatures
Vance, JackThe Dying Earth
VanderMeer, JeffWonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Annihilation
Vaughan, Andrea and William2nd Gen
Vaughn, CarrieAfter the Golden Age
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Straying from the Path
Verissimo, Luis FernandoBorges and the Eternal Orangutans
Verne, JulesJourney to the Center of the Earth
Master of the World
Vidal, GoreBurr
Vinge, VernorA Fire Upon the Deep
A Deepness in the Sky
The Children of the Sky
Rainbows End
VoltaireCandide
Von Luck, HansPanzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
Vonnegut, KurtSlaughterhouse-Five
The Sirens of Titan
Vox DayThe Wardog's Coin, A Magic Broken, and The Last Witchking
— W —
Wallace, David FosterThe Broom of the System
Walsh, MichaelHostile Intent
Walton, DavidThe Genius Plague
Walton, JoFarthing
Watts, PeterBlindsight
Wayne, TeddyLoner
Weber, DavidOut of the Dark
Wecker, HeleneThe Golem and the Jinni
Weeks, BrentThe Way of Shadows
Wein, ElizabethCode Name Verity
Weir, AndyArtemis
The Martian
Wells, DanI Am Not A Serial Killer
The Butcher of Khardov
Wells, H.G.The War of the Worlds
Wells, Jennifer FoehnerFluency
Wells, MarthaThe Cloud Roads
Wendig, ChuckBlackbirds
Wexler, DjangoShip of Smoke and Steel
City of Stone and Silence
Siege of Rage and Ruin
Wharton, EdithThe Age of Innocence
Whedon, JossBuffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales and Buffy Season Eight
White, Skylerand Falling, Fly
Wight, WillUnsouled
Wilde, OscarThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Willett, JincyThe Writing Class
Amy Falls Down
Winner of the National Book Award
Williams, JohnStoner
Willingham, BillFables
Willis, DeborahGirlfriend on Mars
Wilson, CintraA Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease
Wilson, G. WillowAlif the Unseen
Wilson, Robert CharlesThe Chronoliths
Winslow, DonSatori
Winspear, JacquelineMaisie Dobbs
Winter, EvanThe Rage of Dragons
The Fires of Vengeance
Wolfe, GeneThe Shadow of the Torturer
Wooding, ChrisThe Ember Blade
The Shadow Casket
Woodrell, DanielWinter's Bone
Woolf, VirginiaMrs. Dalloway
Wrangham, RichardCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Wright, John C.One Bright Star to Guide Them
Wright, RichardNative Son
Wukovits, JohnTin Can Titans
— Y —
Yegulalp, SerdarSummerworld
Yemets, Dmitri AleksandrovichTanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass
Yoshida, MitsuruRequiem for Battleship Yamato
Youmans, MarlyThe Curse of the Raven Mocker and Ingledove
Thaliad
Young, MoiraBlood Red Road
— Z —
Zamyatin, YevgenyWe
Zelazny, RogerThis Immortal
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