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Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife

Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife

ByEric Schlich

2024 • 4 Readers • 4

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While Death Waits

While Death Waits

Timecode of a Face

#1 of 2 in The Face

Timecode of a Face

ByRuth Ozeki

2015 • 14 Readers • 135 pages • 4

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

ByTravis Alabanza

2022 • 11 Readers • 214 pages • 4

Look Again

ByElizabeth A. Trembley

2022 • 4 Readers • 334 pages • 4.5

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

ByJonathan Blitzer

2024 • 33 Readers • 545 pages • 4.4

The Lottery and Other Stories: 75th Anniversary Edition

The Lottery and Other Stories: 75th Anniversary Edition

ByShirley Jackson

2023 • 3 Readers • 302 pages

The Reformatory

The Reformatory

ByTananarive Due

2023 • 271 Readers • 576 pages • 4.4

Grass

ByKeum Suk Gendry-Kim,Janet Hong(Translator)

2017 • 44 Readers • 496 pages • 4.4

Out of Focus: My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism

Out of Focus: My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism

ByAmber Cantorna

2023 • 1 Reader

Island Rule

ByKatie M. Flynn

2024 • 11 Readers • 5

Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

ByTania De Rozario

2024 • 9 Readers • 4

They Were Her Property

They Were Her Property

ByStephanie E. Jones-Rogers

2019 • 68 Readers • 320 pages • 4.1

Dead Silence

ByS.A. Barnes

2022 • 442 Readers • 343 pages • 3.7

Lights

#3 of 3 in Sheets

ByBrenna Thummler

2023 • 15 Readers • 366 pages • 4.3

Blankets

ByCraig Thompson

2003 • 363 Readers • 15 pages • 4.1

Death: The High Cost of Living

#1 of 2 in Death of the Endless

Death: The High Cost of Living

ByNeil Gaiman

1993 • 131 Readers • 104 pages • 4.2

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

BySam Kean

2010 • 220 Readers • 391 pages • 3.9

Queering anarchism

Queering anarchism

ByC. B. Daring

2 Readers

The Stone Home

ByCrystal Hana Kim

2024 • 3 Readers

Come Closer

BySara Gran

2003 • 297 Readers • 3h 41m • 3.6

Rainbow Black

ByMaggie Thrash

2024 • 56 Readers • 416 pages • 4.3

Weird Horror Short Stories

Weird Horror Short Stories

ByMike Ashley(Editor),Algernon Blackwood(Contributor)

2022 • 1 Reader • 432 pages

The Fox Maidens

The Fox Maidens

ByRobin Ha

2024 • 15 Readers • 4.2

The Goodbye Cat

The Goodbye Cat

ByHiro Arikawa,Philip Gabriel(Translator)

2021 • 44 Readers • 244 pages • 4

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

ByBen Goldacre

2012 • 42 Readers • 448 pages • 3.7

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

BySusan Casey

2023 • 27 Readers • 3.2

Thirst

ByMarina Yuszczuk,Heather Cleary(Translator)

2020 • 73 Readers • 257 pages • 3.9

The Deluge

ByStephen Markley

2023 • 107 Readers • 896 pages • 4

American Gothic Short Stories

American Gothic Short Stories

ByMonika Elbert(Foreword),Terri Bruce(Contributor)

2019 • 1 Reader

Small Beauty

Byjia qing wilson-yang

2016 • 9 Readers • 160 pages • 4

There Is No Good Card for This

There Is No Good Card for This

ByKelsey Crowe,Emily McDowell

2017 • 16 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

Never Whistle at Night

Never Whistle at Night

ByNorris Black,Amber Blaeser-Wardzala,+22 more

2023 • 271 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Silver Nitrate

BySilvia Moreno-Garcia

2023 • 376 Readers • 318 pages • 3.7

Leviathan Wakes

#1 of 9 in The Expanse

Leviathan Wakes

ByJames S. A. Corey

2011 • 2,104 Readers • 621 pages • 4.2

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men

ByCormac McCarthy

2005 • 612 Readers • 309 pages • 4.1

Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

ByKatherine E. Standefer

2020 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

Matrix

ByLauren Groff

2021 • 245 Readers • 272 pages • 3.6

Jazz

2 Beloved Trilogy

ByToni Morrison

1992 • 108 Readers • 258 pages • 3.9

Stagnant Water

ByGaeli Love Weiss

2 Readers • 252 pages

Goldenrod

Goldenrod: Poems

ByMaggie Smith

2021 • 10 Readers • 128 pages • 3

Beloved

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

ByToni Morrison

1987 • 923 Readers • 362 pages • 3.9

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

ByCamille T. Dungy

2023 • 40 Readers • 321 pages • 4.6

Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America

Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America

ByRebecca Grant

2023 • 2 Readers

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

ByDaniel Immerwahr

2019 • 215 Readers • 513 pages • 4.4

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

ByDeborah G. Plant

2023 • 2 Readers

Monarch Falls

#1 of 1 in The Four Quarters of Imagination

ByLumen Reese

2013 • 2 Readers • 314 pages • 3

The Changeling

ByVictor LaValle

2017 • 279 Readers • 448 pages • 3.8

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If You See Them

If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

ByVicki Sokolik

2 Readers

Ocean's Echo

#2 of 2 in Winter's Orbit

ByEverina Maxwell

2022 • 125 Readers • 462 pages • 3.9

Traitor's Run

#1 of 1 in The Lenticular

ByKeith Stevenson

2023 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

Liberation Day: Stories

Liberation Day: Stories

ByGeorge Saunders

2022 • 122 Readers • 257 pages • 3.9

Last to Leave the Room

Last to Leave the Room

ByCaitlin Starling

2023 • 72 Readers • 320 pages • 3.9

Annie Bot

BySierra Greer

2024 • 252 Readers • 231 pages • 4

A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

ByKatherine Howe

2023 • 16 Readers • 293 pages • 4.3

Delicious Monsters

Delicious Monsters

ByLiselle Sambury

2023 • 104 Readers • 544 pages • 4.3

Exordia

BySeth Dickinson

2023 • 64 Readers • 826 pages • 3.6

The Golden Gate

The Golden Gate

ByAmy Chua

2023 • 16 Readers • 384 pages • 4

The Reformation of Marli Meade

The Reformation of Marli Meade

ByTracy Hewitt Meyer

2016 • 1 Reader • 232 pages

Rouge

ByMona Awad

2023 • 348 Readers • 384 pages • 3.9

Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

Our Shadows Have Claws

ByDavid Bowles,Chantel Acevedo,+13 more

2022 • 41 Readers • 369 pages • 3.2

These Burning Stars

#1 of 3 in The Kindom Trilogy

These Burning Stars

ByBethany Jacobs

2023 • 133 Readers • 486 pages • 4

Enemies in the Orchard: A World War 2 Novel in Verse

Enemies in the Orchard: A World War 2 Novel in Verse

ByDana VanderLugt

2023 • 1 Reader

The Ferryman

ByJustin Cronin

2023 • 362 Readers • 560 pages • 4

Trouble the Living

Trouble the Living

ByFrancesca McDonnell Capossela

3 Readers

All the Living and the Dead

All the Living and the Dead

ByHayley Campbell

2022 • 5 Readers

Necessary Death: What Horror Movies Teach Us About Navigating the Human Experience

Necessary Death: What Horror Movies Teach Us About Navigating the Human Experience

ByPreston Fassel,Chris Grosso

2 Readers

The Split: A Novel

The Split: A Novel

ByKit Frick

2024 • 5 Readers • 2

The Premonition

The Premonition

ByBanana Yoshimoto

1988 • 58 Readers • 133 pages • 3.3

Old Crimes and Other Stories

Old Crimes and Other Stories

ByJill McCorkle

2024 • 1 Reader

A Sweet Sting of Salt

A Sweet Sting of Salt

ByRose Sutherland

2024 • 97 Readers • 342 pages • 4.5

The World Wasn't Ready for You

The World Wasn't Ready for You

ByJustin C. Key

2023 • 7 Readers

Extraordinary Insects

Extraordinary Insects

ByAnne Sverdrup-Thygeson

2018 • 9 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Mimi's Tales of Terror

Mimi's Tales of Terror

ByHirokatsu Kihara,Ichiro Nakayama,+1 more

2023 • 17 Readers • 224 pages • 4.5

Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories

Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories

ByPhilip Brian Hall(Contributor),John Andrew Karr(Contributor)

2017 • 2 Readers • 480 pages

Kindred

ByOctavia E. Butler

1979 • 1,030 Readers • 292 pages • 4.4

#1 of 2 in Commonwealth Saga

ByPeter F. Hamilton

2004 • 460 Readers • 1,156 pages • 4

Spin

#1 of 3 in Spin

ByRobert Charles Wilson

2005 • 359 Readers • 368 pages • 4.1

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

The Three-Body Problem

ByCixin Liu,Ken Liu(Translator)

2006 • 3,159 Readers • 400 pages • 3.9

Blindsight

#1 of 2 in Firefall

ByPeter Watts

2006 • 669 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

I Am Legend

ByRichard Matheson

1954 • 798 Readers • 312 pages • 3.9

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

ByH. G. Wells

1894 • 1,181 Readers • 140 pages • 3.7

1984

ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 6,017 Readers • 328 pages • 4.2

Revelation Space

#1 of 4 in Revelation Space

Revelation Space

ByAlastair Reynolds

2000 • 512 Readers • 596 pages • 3.8

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1969 • 1,368 Readers • 267 pages • 4.1

I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

ByGrant Snider

2020 • 95 Readers • 128 pages • 3.7

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

ByShirley Jackson

1962 • 1,047 Readers • 146 pages • 3.9

Compelling Science Fiction

Compelling Science Fiction

ByJoe Stech(foreword),Mike Morgan(Contributor)

2022 • 1 Reader

The Turnaway Study

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion

ByDiana Greene Foster

2020 • 33 Readers • 384 pages • 4.8

Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories

Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories

ByA.C. Benson,E.F. Benson,+12 more

1 Reader

Haunted House Short Stories

Haunted House Short Stories

ByRamsey Campbell,John Everson,+41 more

2019 • 2 Readers

Sheep of God

ByTodd Kreisman

2018 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

ByEdgar Allan Poe

2014 • 1 Reader • 891 pages

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

ByBill Bryson(Narrator)

2019 • 412 Readers • 4.2

Caste

ByIsabel Wilkerson

2020 • 630 Readers • 497 pages • 4.4

Pomegranate

ByHelen Elaine Lee

2023 • 40 Readers • 1 page • 3.8

Plain Bad Heroines

Plain Bad Heroines

ByEmily M. Danforth

2020 • 300 Readers • 640 pages • 3.6

The Collective

ByAlison Gaylin

2021 • 134 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

On Anarchism

ByNoam Chomsky

2005 • 29 Readers • 194 pages • 3.3

Night Wherever We Go

Night Wherever We Go

ByTracey Rose Peyton

2023 • 25 Readers • 304 pages • 4