Recommendations based on A Hymn Before Battleby John Ringo

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  1. On Basilisk Station

    by David Weber
    Space battles and a woman's struggle to prove her worth as a military commander.

    Sidney Harris , the Hereditary President of the People's Republic of Haven, discusses the economic and military situation with his cabinet. Secretary of the Economy Walter Frankel presents the latest ... (Wikipedia)

  2. The Short Victorious War

    by David Weber
    A space battle to save a planet from a tyrannical regime.

    The People's Republic of Haven finds itself teetering at the edge of economic disaster. Unable to maintain its massive welfare state in the face of inflation and deficit and with opposition to the ... (Wikipedia)

  3. March Upcountry

    by David Weber
    Epic space opera featuring military conflict and political intrigue.

    Prince Roger is ordered by his mother and older half-brother to attend a ceremony in Leviathan. Roger travels on the spaceship Charles DeGlopper with Eleanora O'Casey, Kostas Matsugae, and Captain ... (Wikipedia)

  4. Starship Troopers

    by Robert A. Heinlein
    A futuristic military drama, exploring the consequences of war and human nature.

    The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette transport Rodger Young (named after Medal of Honor recipient Rodger Wilton Young ), , serving with the platoon known as "Rasczak's Roughnecks". The ... (Wikipedia)

  5. Monster Hunter International

    by Larry Correia
    A group of mercenaries hunt monsters for a living, but when a powerful entity threatens the world, they must band together to save humanity.

    Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out ... (Goodreads)

  6. Monster Hunter Alpha

    by Larry Correia
    Werewolf hunter, Earl Harbinger, must lead his team to stop a dangerous pack of werewolves from destroying a small town.

    #3 in the break-out, best-selling Monster Hunter series. Earl Harbinger, head of Monster Hunter International, faces down an old nemesis – a very nasty former KGB werewolf who is working to create a ... (Goodreads)

  7. The Eye of the World

    by Robert Jordan
    Epic fantasy, filled with adventure and danger, as a group of heroes attempt to save the world.

    The Eye of the World revolves around protagonists Rand al'Thor , Matrim (Mat) Cauthon , Perrin Aybara , Egwene al'Vere , and Nynaeve al'Meara , after their residence of "Emond's Field" is ... (Wikipedia)

  8. The Books of the South

    by Glen Cook
    A band of mercenaries travels to the southern continent to retrieve a powerful magical artifact. Betrayal and battles ensue.

    Marching south after the ghastly battle at the Tower of Charm, the Black Company is hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way. The game is on: the Company versus the Shadowmasters, deadly ... (Barnes & Noble)

  9. Monster Hunter Vendetta

    by Larry Correia
    Monster hunter Owen Zastava Pitt faces a new threat as an ancient evil awakens, threatening to destroy humanity.

    ORIGINAL PAPERBACK. Sequel to the Hit Novel, Monster Hunter International . Owen Pitt Never Met a Gun He Didn’t Like, or a Monster He Couldn’t Shoot. But Now, the Monsters are Shooting Back . . . ... (Barnes & Noble)

  10. Talon of the Silver Hawk

    by Raymond E. Feist
    A young warrior embarks on a quest to reclaim his birthright and restore justice to a kingdom in turmoil.

    Evil has come to a distant land high among the snow-capped mountains of Midkemia, as an exterminating army wearing the colors of the Duke of Olasko razes village after village, slaughtering men, ... (Wikipedia)

  11. Have Space Suit—Will Travel

    by Robert A. Heinlein
    An adventurous teenager embarks on a thrilling space mission to save the future of the human race.

    The novel is set in the near future, when the Earth has established a few small scientific bases on the Moon. Clifford "Kip" Russell, enters an advertising jingle writing contest, hoping to win an ... (Wikipedia)

  12. Memorial Day

    by Vince Flynn
    Action-packed political thriller, as an ex-military operative races to stop a terrorist attack.

    Intelligence gathering has indicated unusual activity in financial markets, and Rapp, back in the field after a long stint on desk duty for insubordination, unearths a bomb plot during a daring ... (Wikipedia)

  13. Magician: Apprentice

    by Raymond E. Feist
    A young boy's journey to becoming a master sorcerer, encountering magical creatures and powerful forces along the way.

    In the twelfth year of the reign of Rodric the Fourth, an orphaned kitchen boy named Pug is made an apprentice magician to the magician Kulgan in Crydee . A struggling student of magic , he rises to ... (Wikipedia)

  14. Consent to Kill

    by Vince Flynn
    An assassin is tasked with killing a powerful enemy of the United States, leading to a deadly international manhunt.

    In Flynn's previous novel,, Memorial Day, , CIA counter-terror operative and assassin Mitch Rapp uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to use a nuclear weapon obtained from abandoned Russian nuclear storage ... (Wikipedia)

  15. The Crippled God

    by Steven Erikson
    Epic fantasy saga of gods, mortals and dragons fighting for control of a magical world.

    The Bonehunters march for Kolanse, led by Adjunct Tavore. This woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, will challenge the ... (Goodreads)

  16. The Bonehunters

    by Steven Erikson
    The Malazan Empire is in turmoil as the Bonehunters march towards Kolanse. War, betrayal, and magic ensue.

    The Bonehunters begins two months after the events of, House of Chains, . The Malazan Fourteenth Army has destroyed the army of the Whirlwind, and Adjunct Tavore Paran has executed Sha'ik. The ... (Wikipedia)

  17. The Stand: Captain Trips

    by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
    Mankind's battle against a pandemic virus that threatens to wipe out the entire population.

    Exclusive hardcover edition, collects The Stand: Captain Trips series of comics (#1-5) into one Hardcover volume. It all begins here: the epic apocalyptic battle between good and evil. On a secret ... (Goodreads)

  18. Dauntless

    by Jack Campbell
    A space pilot's adventure to save the human race from alien invaders.

    John 'Black Jack' Geary has recently been rescued from a 100-year-old escape pod with a damaged beacon. He was the commanding officer of an early battle in what has become a century-old war between ... (Wikipedia)

  19. I, Robot

    by Isaac Asimov
    A collection of science fiction stories exploring the relationship between humans and robots.

    Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and machine , struggle to redefinelife, love, and consciousness—and where the stakes are nothing less ... (Goodreads)

  20. Tarzan of the Apes

    by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    A wild adventure as a boy is raised by apes in the jungles of Africa.

    John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Viscount and Lady Greystoke from England , are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa in 1888. Some time later, their son John Clayton II , ... (Wikipedia)

  21. Term Limits

    by Vince Flynn
    Political thriller about a group of former special forces operatives who attempt to overthrow the government.

    Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780671023188, here,, TAKING AMERICA BACK ... ONE POLITICIAN AT A TIME, In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with ... (Goodreads)

  22. Prince of Thorns

    by Mark Lawrence
    A young prince's quest for revenge against those who killed his family.

    Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I ... (Goodreads)

  23. To Your Scattered Bodies Go

    by Philip José Farmer
    A journey of exploration through a mysterious afterlife, revealing the secrets of life and death.

    British adventurer Richard Francis Burton dies on Earth and is revived in mid-air in a vast dark room filled with human bodies, some only half-formed. There, he is confronted by men in a flying ... (Wikipedia)

  24. The Hunt for Red October

    by Tom Clancy
    A thrilling adventure of a submarine captain's race against the clock in a thrilling game of cat and mouse.

    During the Cold War ,(the story must be set in 1982, according to the days assigned to the dates in the novel, e.g. Dec. 17 was a Friday only in 1982,1976 and 1971 ) Marko Ramius, a Soviet Navy ... (Wikipedia)

  25. The Blue Sword

    by Robin McKinley
    A young girl embarks on an epic adventure, discovering courage, strength, and her true identity.

    This is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who becomes Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, which no woman had wielded since the legendary Lady Aerin ... (Wikipedia)

  26. Ringworld

    by Larry Niven
    A sci-fi adventure to an artificial ring-shaped world, full of unexpected challenges.

    On planet Earth in 2850 AD , Louis Gridley Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition due to the longevity drug boosterspice . He meets Nessus , a ... (Wikipedia)

  27. Best Served Cold

    by Joe Abercrombie
    A tale of vengeance, as a wronged woman seeks to reclaim justice through any means necessary.

    Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the ... (Goodreads)

  28. Xenocide

    by Orson Scott Card
    A space-opera style adventure of survival, where a group of humans battle against an extraterrestrial force to save their planet.

    On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but ... (Wikipedia)

  29. Black Sun Rising

    by C.S. Friedman
    An epic fantasy adventure featuring a group of unlikely heroes who must save the world from destruction.

    As they make their way north, they encounter a man by the name of Gerald Tarrant, who marks himself as the servant of the Hunter, a powerful Adept who lives in the middle of a vortex of Fae. He ... (Wikipedia)

  30. Tunnel in the Sky

    by Robert A. Heinlein
    A group of students are stranded on a distant planet during a survival test, facing challenges and forming their own society.

    A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations. The final exam for Dr. Matson's Advanced Survival class was ... (Goodreads)