Exploration


Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Worst Journey in the World
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Into the Wild
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyRed Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonRed Rising by Pierce BrownThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Mars Colonist's Reading List
165 books — 132 voters
Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Best 1800s Historical Fiction
460 books — 286 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLost Horizon by James HiltonKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
TREKKING THE 'STANS
85 books — 59 voters
Alpha by Tiya RayneHis to Claim by Taylor VaughnVenomous by Penelope FletcherAdaptation by Pepper PaceThe Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Black women in Science Fiction
275 books — 58 voters

Alice Munro
A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and agai ...more
Alice Munro, Selected Stories

Yvonne Korshak
My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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