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H.M.S. Surprise
by Patrick O'Brian
Captain Aubrey and Dr. Maturin embark on a perilous mission to intercept a French frigate. The third book in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
A convoy including Aubrey seizes the ships carrying the gold deemed necessary by Spain to agree to join the war on the side of France. On the quibble that Spain had not yet entered the war, the new ... (Wikipedia)
The Far Side of the World
by Patrick O'Brian
A thrilling journey of naval warfare and exploration in the early 19th century.
Aubrey meets Admiral Ives, now in Gibraltar, who is pleased with the last mission of HMS Surprise , despite Aubrey's negative report. Mr Yarrow will rephrase it to make the success clearer to the ... (Wikipedia)
Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian
The first book in a series following the adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, during the Napoleonic Wars.
The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Autograph Man
by Zadie Smith
A young man obsessed with autographs embarks on a journey of self-discovery, exploring his Jewish identity and the meaning of celebrity in modern society.
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them—all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But ... (Goodreads)
The Abyss Beyond Dreams
by Peter F. Hamilton
A group of humans are trapped in a mysterious void, where they must fight for survival against an alien race and uncover the secrets of their new environment.
The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel—self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that ... (Goodreads)
The Way of Kings, Part 2
by Brandon Sanderson
Epic adventure about a young king's struggle against a powerful tyrant and the forces of darkness.
According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took root on Roshar, the world of ... (Goodreads)
Great North Road
by Peter F. Hamilton
An interstellar murder mystery set in a world of intergalactic politics and intrigue.
A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humanity has solved its energy shortages, cleaned up the environment, and created far-flung colony worlds. ... (Goodreads)
More Than Human
by Theodore Sturgeon
A story of human evolution, examining the potential of human beings to transcend their physical limitations.
The first part of the novel, The Fabulous Idiot , narrates the birth of the gestalt. In the beginning, we are introduced to the world of Lone, referred to as the "Idiot", a 25-year-old male with a ... (Wikipedia)
The Way of Kings, Part 1
by Brandon Sanderson
Epic fantasy story of a young man's quest for justice and redemption in a dark and troubled world.
The story rotates between the points of view of Kaladin, Shallan Davar, Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Dalinar Kholin, and several other minor characters, who lead seemingly unconnected lives. Szeth, a Shin ... (Wikipedia)
The Evolutionary Void
by Peter F. Hamilton
Adventure in a dangerous universe, as a group of aliens work to save their species from extinction.
Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a galaxywide search by government agent Paula Myo and the psychopath known as the Cat, along with others equally determined to ... (Goodreads)
The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi
Intergalactic heist of a quantum computer, revealing a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
Countless gogols of the legendary gentleman thief Jean Le Flambeur are trapped in a virtual Sobornost prison in orbit around Neptune, playing an iterated prisoner's dilemma until his mind learns to ... (Wikipedia)
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
by Robert Graves
A historical account of the reign of the Roman emperor Claudius and his controversial wife Messalina.
With the same brilliance that characterized his classic I, Claudius , Robert Graves continues the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself and his handicaps. Claudius the ... (Goodreads)
Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny
A cosmic struggle between ancient Hindu gods and a man, who uses technology to gain freedom.
Lord of Light is set on a planet colonized by some of the remnants of "vanished Urath", or Earth. The crew and colonists from the spaceship Star of India found themselves on a strange planet ... (Wikipedia)
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
by Ken Liu
Collection of science fiction and fantasy stories exploring themes of identity and belonging.
A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With ... (Goodreads)
Kraken
by China Miéville
A giant squid goes missing from the Natural History Museum, leading a curator on a surreal journey through London's underground to find it.
An inexplicable event has occurred at the Natural History Museum, London —a forty-foot specimen of giant squid in formalin has disappeared overnight. Additionally, a murder victim is found folded ... (Wikipedia)
The Consuming Fire
by John Scalzi
The second book in the Interdependency series, as the collapse of the Flow threatens the survival of humanity.
Following the events of The Collapsing Empire, End is now isolated from Hub as the result of a Flow shoal breakdown. Seeking to unite the population of the Interdependency behind an agenda to get ... (Wikipedia)
Horus Rising
by Dan Abnett
Epic space opera about the rise of a powerful leader in a galactic war.
Black Library presents the Masterworks – a curated collection of novels celebrating the very best science fiction and fantasy set in the worlds of Warhammer. It is the 31st millennium. Under the ... (Barnes & Noble)
Another Country
by James Baldwin
An exploration of race and identity, examining the lives of a diverse group of characters.
The book uses a third-person narrator who is nevertheless closely aware of the characters' emotions. , :,219, The first fifth of Another Country tells of the downfall of jazz drummer Rufus Scott. He ... (Wikipedia)
Amerika
by Franz Kafka
A young man's surreal journey through a bizarre and dystopian version of America.
The story describes the bizarre wanderings of sixteen-year-old European immigrant Karl Roßmann, who was forced to go to New York City to escape the scandal of his seduction by a housemaid. As the ... (Wikipedia)
The Priory of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon
A world divided by religion and dragons, where a queen must unite the land to defeat an ancient evil.
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to ... (Goodreads)
How to Train Your Dragon
by Cressida Cowell
A young Viking boy, Hiccup, trains a dragon and learns about friendship, bravery, and the importance of being true to oneself.
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans, tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan by catching and training a dragon. Can ... (Goodreads)
Reaper Man
by Terry Pratchett
A humorous fantasy adventure featuring a young witch and her Discworld allies.
The Auditors of Reality are beings who watch the Discworld to ensure everything obeys The Rules. As Death starts developing a personality the Auditors feel that he does not perform his Duty in the ... (Wikipedia)
Abaddon's Gate
by James S.A. Corey
A crew of space explorers venture through an alien structure in search of a new home.
Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. ... (Goodreads)
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
An epic tale of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, told through the eyes of a dynasty's forgotten leader.
Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges ... (Goodreads)
Mason & Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon
Epic tale of two surveyors in colonial America, exploring the boundaries of knowledge and identity.
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon ... (Goodreads)
Elantris
by Brandon Sanderson
Epic fantasy tale of a cursed city and its inhabitants’ struggles to restore its former glory.
Elantris was once a place of magic, and the immortal Elantrians were gods in the eyes of people, with the divine ability to create and heal with a mere wave of a hand. Anyone in Arelon had the ... (Wikipedia)
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
A tale of struggle and sorrow for a poor, uneducated man amid the rigid conventions of Victorian England.
The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex ), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on ... (Wikipedia)
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Epic poem of the Fall of Man, exploring the depths of human nature and the consequences of sin.
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of ... (Goodreads)
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
A darkly comic and philosophical exploration of art, sanity, and the nature of reality.
Shade's poem digressively describes many aspects of his life. Canto 1 includes his early encounters with death and glimpses of what he takes to be the supernatural. Canto 2 is about his family and ... (Wikipedia)
Mort
by Terry Pratchett
A Discworld fantasy novel about a young man's journey to save a princess from a magical kingdom.
As a teenager, Mort has a personality and temperament that makes him unsuited to the family farming business. Mort's father Lezek takes him to a local hiring fair in the hope that Mort will land an ... (Wikipedia)
