329 books
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15 voters
Hard Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,707
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hard)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,982 ratings — published 1959
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,206,327 ratings — published 2021
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
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avg rating 4.54 — 404,230 ratings — published 2016
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hard)
avg rating 3.68 — 330,888 ratings — published 2017
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as hard)
avg rating 4.26 — 127,109 ratings — published 2016
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,299,678 ratings — published 2011
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 501,060 ratings — published 2006
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hard)
avg rating 4.20 — 110,430 ratings — published 2014
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 115,591 ratings — published 2002
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as hard)
avg rating 3.89 — 366,689 ratings — published 1984
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 322,254 ratings — published 2011
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 599,729 ratings — published 1951
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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avg rating 4.40 — 174,434 ratings — published 2010
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 78,357 ratings — published 2009
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
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avg rating 4.28 — 155,980 ratings — published 2013
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 117,176 ratings — published 1999
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 54,875 ratings — published 2006
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 74,597 ratings — published 2017
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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avg rating 4.40 — 222,905 ratings — published 2008
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 317,247 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 177,829 ratings — published 2015
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
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avg rating 4.23 — 128,987 ratings — published 2014
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 380,325 ratings — published 1971
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,307,979 ratings — published 2011
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 54,069 ratings — published 2004
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,667 ratings — published 1954
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 41,085 ratings — published 1993
Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)
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avg rating 4.07 — 80,755 ratings — published 1986
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 63,084 ratings — published 2019
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,534,774 ratings — published 2003
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 66,998 ratings — published 1992
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12,405 ratings — published 2001
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 185,262 ratings — published 1973
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 62,084 ratings — published 2000
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
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avg rating 3.77 — 9,640 ratings — published 2004
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 397,415 ratings — published 1980
Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)
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avg rating 4.16 — 62,065 ratings — published 1993
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 180,328 ratings — published 1993
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 951,676 ratings — published 1955
Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
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avg rating 4.28 — 37,198 ratings — published 2020
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 196,910 ratings — published 1929
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 888,416 ratings — published 1946
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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avg rating 4.46 — 128,231 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 174,736 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 376,205 ratings — published 2017
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.36 — 153,717 ratings — published 2018
“It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.”
― Tempt Me at Twilight
― Tempt Me at Twilight
“Why is this so hard?” I whispered.
His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard.”
― Shift
His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard.”
― Shift















