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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 98,982 ratings — published 1959
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,206,398 ratings — published 2021
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
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avg rating 4.54 — 404,241 ratings — published 2016
Artemis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 330,891 ratings — published 2017
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 127,109 ratings — published 2016
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,299,686 ratings — published 2011
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 501,068 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)
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avg rating 4.20 — 110,432 ratings — published 2014
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 115,592 ratings — published 2002
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 366,690 ratings — published 1984
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 322,255 ratings — published 2011
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 599,731 ratings — published 1951
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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avg rating 4.40 — 174,436 ratings — published 2010
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 78,358 ratings — published 2009
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
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avg rating 4.28 — 155,982 ratings — published 2013
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 117,177 ratings — published 1999
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 54,880 ratings — published 2006
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 74,598 ratings — published 2017
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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avg rating 4.40 — 222,907 ratings — published 2008
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 317,250 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 177,835 ratings — published 2015
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
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avg rating 4.23 — 128,989 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 — 1,307,983 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 — 80,756 ratings — published 1986
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 63,086 ratings — published 2019
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,534,786 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 — 12,407 ratings — published 2001
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 185,265 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 — 397,418 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 — 180,333 ratings — published 1993
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 951,684 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 — 196,911 ratings — published 1929
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 888,430 ratings — published 1946
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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avg rating 4.46 — 128,236 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 174,739 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 376,211 ratings — published 2017
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.36 — 153,719 ratings — published 2018
“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a crumbling “love never, ever again”- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ("Another empty room")”
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“Being happy is harder than being discontent. For happiness we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Because of this exertion, many prefer to abide by ‘fake’ happiness.( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )”
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