329 books
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15 voters
Hard Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,748
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hard)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,101 ratings — published 1959
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,707,854 ratings — published 2021
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 457,309 ratings — published 2016
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as hard)
avg rating 3.68 — 353,002 ratings — published 2017
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 12 times as hard)
avg rating 4.19 — 113,005 ratings — published 2014
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as hard)
avg rating 4.25 — 138,556 ratings — published 2016
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,349,681 ratings — published 2011
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 522,447 ratings — published 2006
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 117,191 ratings — published 2002
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 332,520 ratings — published 2011
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 373,460 ratings — published 1984
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 609,139 ratings — published 1951
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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avg rating 4.40 — 182,240 ratings — published 2010
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 78,903 ratings — published 2009
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 118,046 ratings — published 1999
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 57,282 ratings — published 2006
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 79,849 ratings — published 2017
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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avg rating 4.40 — 235,807 ratings — published 2008
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 327,391 ratings — published 2018
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
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avg rating 4.24 — 132,826 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 — 385,622 ratings — published 1971
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,331,037 ratings — published 2011
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
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avg rating 4.28 — 160,576 ratings — published 2013
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 54,721 ratings — published 2004
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,750 ratings — published 1954
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 41,482 ratings — published 1993
Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)
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avg rating 4.07 — 82,084 ratings — published 1986
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 189,113 ratings — published 2015
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,564,845 ratings — published 2003
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 607,201 ratings — published 2011
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 67,962 ratings — published 1992
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12,596 ratings — published 2001
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,127,656 ratings — published 1932
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 188,592 ratings — published 1973
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 63,333 ratings — published 2000
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9,733 ratings — published 2004
Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)
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avg rating 4.16 — 62,963 ratings — published 1993
The Naked Sun (Robot, #2)
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avg rating 4.20 — 65,214 ratings — published 1958
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 184,250 ratings — published 1993
Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
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avg rating 4.28 — 40,253 ratings — published 2020
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 199,736 ratings — published 1929
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 918,615 ratings — published 1946
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 67,427 ratings — published 2019
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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avg rating 4.46 — 135,313 ratings — published 2020
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 368,870 ratings — published 1925
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 396,513 ratings — published 2017
“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”
― Red Dragon
― Red Dragon
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”
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