333 books
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32 voters
Hard Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,613
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hard)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,207 ratings — published 1959
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as hard)
avg rating 4.54 — 370,011 ratings — published 2016
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 120,886 ratings — published 2016
Artemis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 320,720 ratings — published 2017
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 484,099 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 — 108,370 ratings — published 2014
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,042,346 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,272,523 ratings — published 2011
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 114,382 ratings — published 2002
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 314,829 ratings — published 2011
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 77,995 ratings — published 2009
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
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avg rating 4.28 — 152,600 ratings — published 2013
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 361,478 ratings — published 1984
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 53,245 ratings — published 2006
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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avg rating 4.41 — 168,499 ratings — published 2010
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 307,792 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 170,244 ratings — published 2015
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
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avg rating 4.23 — 126,121 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 — 376,350 ratings — published 1971
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 591,853 ratings — published 1951
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 53,588 ratings — published 2004
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 40,751 ratings — published 1993
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 60,059 ratings — published 2019
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 71,859 ratings — published 2017
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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avg rating 4.40 — 215,612 ratings — published 2008
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,509,007 ratings — published 2003
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,289,645 ratings — published 2011
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 116,619 ratings — published 1999
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12,259 ratings — published 2001
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 182,903 ratings — published 1973
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,597 ratings — published 1954
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 61,334 ratings — published 2000
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
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avg rating 3.77 — 9,562 ratings — published 2004
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 177,784 ratings — published 1993
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 937,736 ratings — published 1955
Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
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avg rating 4.28 — 35,560 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 863,034 ratings — published 1946
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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avg rating 4.46 — 123,302 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 167,222 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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avg rating 4.25 — 208,658 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 359,985 ratings — published 2017
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.37 — 147,487 ratings — published 2018
The Road (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,026,223 ratings — published 2006
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
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avg rating 4.09 — 508,206 ratings — published 1968
Fate of Worlds (Fleet of Worlds #5; Ringworld #5)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,596 ratings — published 2018
Being and Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 27,618 ratings — published 1927
“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
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
















