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Cover of The Sword of KaigenCover of Red RisingCover of The Rage of DragonsCover of Blade ItselfCover of Poppy War
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Books with fight scenes worth the blood

Some books you read for the prose, the world, the ache. These you read for the fight. The duels that leave you breathless, the violence that earns its place. I need my fix. I need blood.

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Visceral Epic
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Cover of 1984Cover of Fahrenheit 451 Ray BradburyCover of Never Let Me GoCover of Parable Of The SowerCover of The Hunger Games
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Dystopias that hit harder now

Dystopian novels that land differently now. Each takes one true thing and turns the dial until it screams. Decades old, somehow this morning's news.

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Urgent Defiant
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Cover of Station ElevenCover of Slow HorsesCover of Normal PeopleCover of Gentleman in MoscowCover of The Handmaid's Tale
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Read it before it was prestige TV

The books behind the prestige TV everyone binged. Read them first, picture it yourself, then argue about what the show got wrong.

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Melancholic Haunting
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Cover of The Count of Monte CristoCover of Way of KingsCover of A Storm of SwordsCover of SarumCover of Wolf Hall
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Big books to disappear into for a month

Big books and doorstoppers worth the month they take. Worlds deep enough to live in, stories with room to wander. Clear your shelf first

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Epic Propulsive
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Cover of The Will of the ManyCover of The Eye of the WorldCover of Gardens Of The MoonCover of Prince of ThornsCover of Mistborn
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Fantasy sagas with world you can get lost in

Series built on maps you'll keep flipping back to and histories that go centuries deep. Fantasy where the world and the society are the real protagonists.

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Epic Gritty
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Cover of Silent PatientCover of Gone GirlCover of The Girl on the TrainCover of Sharp ObjectsCover of Before I Go To Sleep
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Psychological thrillers with a twist you never see coming

You start thinking you know who's lying. You end up doubting yourself. Suspense that keeps its final card until the last page.

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Unsettling Propulsive
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Cover of In AscensionCover of EversionCover of PENGUIN READERS 5 : 2001Cover of Rendezvous with RamaCover of Sphere
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First contact with something we can't explain

Something shows up that shouldn't exist, and the whole book is the attempt to make sense of it. Awe-struck, faintly dreadful science fiction.

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Unsettling Haunting
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Cover of East of EdenCover of BelovedCover of The Color PurpleCover of SarumCover of Pachinko
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Family sagas across generations

Books that follow one bloodline across the generations, the inheritances, and the old mistakes handed down with it. Settle in.

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Lyrical Melancholic
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Cover of Boys in the BoatCover of Friday Night Lights 12 Copy Floor DisplayCover of OpenCover of MoneyballCover of The secret race
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Sports books worth reading even if you hate sports

Stories where the final score is the least of it. The best sports writing is about everything the game drags in with it.

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Intimate Cathartic
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Cover of VisionsCover of Closing The CircleCover of Deadly Thyme
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Indie, dark psychological thrillers with twists that will leave you reeling

Mainstream is good, but you sometimes want something refreshing.

Unsettling Propulsive
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Cover of From Lukov with LoveCover of The FlatshareCover of RadianceCover of Funny StoryCover of The Safekeep
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Slow burn romance with no spark at hello

Two people who feel nothing at first, then everything. Slow burn romance where you actually watch them fall, page by page.

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Romantic Propulsive
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Cover of HeartburnCover of Eat, pray, loveCover of Tiny Beautiful Things: Reese's Book ClubCover of The Course of LoveCover of Normal People
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Books to read after a breakup

For the strange, raw weeks when everything reminds you of someone. Books that sit with you in the mess, then quietly help you stand back up.

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Cathartic Raw
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Cover of The End of EternityCover of 2001Cover of 1984Cover of The Sirens of TitanCover of Solaris
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Understanding Science Fiction

If you're new to science fiction and want to understand its tropes, here's a stack of books covering what you should probably read to get up to speed

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Epic Propulsive
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Cover of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueCover of The time traveler's wifeCover of One DayCover of Normal PeopleCover of The Rosie project
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Romance for people who don't read romance

Romance with a second engine — a structure, a mystery, a voice — pulling you through the pages. For readers who bounce off the genre, not off love.

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Romantic Melancholic
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Cover of A Memory Called EmpireCover of Long Way to a Small, Angry PlanetCover of BintiCover of Ancillary JusticeCover of Children of Time
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Sci-fi with great women, where being a woman isn't the whole point

Sharp, complicated heroines doing the actual work of the story — saving the ship, solving the puzzle, breaking the world. Sci-fi where the lead's gender doesn't decide what the book is about.

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Defiant Propulsive
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