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- Carrie
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1974
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In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. This sixteen-year-old misfit was forbidden everything that was young and fun by her fanatical mother. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone. But Carrie had a secret: She possessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling bizarre, and malevolent things happen. (WorldCat)
- Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyesstandalone novel1966
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A man with a low IQ becomes the subject of an experimental medical procedure which raises his IQ well over genius level.
- The Lady of the Shroud
Bram Stokerstandalone novel1909
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Rupert Sent Leger inherits his eccentric uncle's fortune on one condition: he must spend a year living in the family's castle in the Blue Mountains, a small, embattled corner of the Balkan coast under threat from Turkish forces. Determined to earn the trust of his new neighbors, Rupert arms the local mountain people for their own defense, and soon finds his castle visited at night by a beautiful woman in a wet burial shroud, who claims sanctuary from the cold and offers no explanation of who, or what, she might be. Bram Stoker's follow-up to Dracula trades outright horror for Ruritanian romance and adventure, blending gothic atmosphere with political intrigue.
- Earthseed
series7 books1993
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Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed novels, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, follow Lauren Olamina as she survives the collapse of a climate-ravaged, near-future United States and founds a belief system built on the idea that "God is Change." The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed. Later graphic-novel adaptations retell the same two stories rather than continuing the narrative.
- Time and Again
series2 books1970
completed
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Time and Again (1970) follows Si Morley, a commercial artist recruited into a secret government project that sends him back to Manhattan in 1882, where he falls for a woman named Julia while weighing whether he can, or should, alter the past; Jack Finney illustrates the story with period photographs and engravings. The sequel, From Time to Time (1995), continues Si's story with a further trip into the past.
- Z for Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brienstandalone novel1975
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Sixteen-year-old Ann Burden, on an Amish family farm in an isolated valley, believes she is the only survivor of nuclear war and nerve gas. One day a man arrives in a "safe-suit" that he and others have recently developed.
- Screwtape
series2 books1942
completed
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C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters (1942) is a Christian satirical novel told as 31 letters from a senior devil, Screwtape, coaching his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on how to corrupt the soul of an ordinary British man known only as 'the Patient.' Lewis added a slim sequel, Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1959), an after-dinner speech in which Screwtape skewers trends in modern education and society; the two are usually published together.
- Among Others
Jo Waltonstandalone novel2011
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Among Others is a 2011 fantasy novel written by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published originally by Tor Books. It is published in the UK by Corsair. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel of 2011, the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 British Fantasy Award.
- Cloud Atlas
David Mitchellstandalone novel2004
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Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories in different writing styles that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future. Its title references a piece of music by Toshi Ichiyanagi.
- The Prestige
Christopher Prieststandalone novel1995
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A magician called Borden (at least in private) writes his own version of his life as a magician. There's a lot of focus on a trick, where he seems to move across any width of stage in an instant, and on a feud with another magician, Angier. The account includes passages, where he can't decide what exactly to write, arguing with himself. 3 generations later a Borden (at least biologically) learns about his ancestor. He's also convinced, he somehow has a twin brother, who's happy about this development.
- Some of Your Blood
Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1961
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Some of Your Blood is a short horror novel in epistolary form by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, first published in 1961.
- The Themis Files
series3 books2015
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Sylvain Neuvel's Themis Files opens when a girl falls into a hole in South Dakota and lands on the palm of a giant metal hand buried underground; the trilogy picks up years later as she leads the team trying to determine what the hand is part of and why it's there. Sleeping Giants and its sequels are told almost entirely through interview transcripts conducted by an unnamed, evasive interrogator, giving the series a documentary, oral-history feel unusual for first-contact SF. The mystery escalates from an archaeological puzzle into a question of who else is looking for the same answer.
- A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoestandalone novel1722
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665 is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city, as part of the larger, centuries-long second plague pandemic. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings, and with frequent digressions and repetitions.
- The Gum Thief
Douglas Couplandstandalone novel2007
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The Gum Thief is Canadian author Douglas Coupland's twelfth novel. It was published on September 25, 2007 , by Random House Canada in Canada and Bloomsbury Publishing in the United States.
- The Child Buyer
John Herseystandalone novel1960
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The Child Buyer is John Hersey's 1960 novel about a project to engineer super-intelligent persons for a project whose aim is never definitely stated. Told entirely in the form of minutes from a State Senate Standing Committee, it relates the story of the appearance and efforts of a mysterious stranger in the small town of Pequot, and the repercussions of his attempt to buy a boy, Barry Rudd.
- The Wizard Knight
series2 books2004
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The Wizard Knight is a series of epistolary novels written by fantasy and science fiction author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey of Able of the High Heart, an American boy transported to a magical world and supernaturally aged to adulthood. Able becomes a knight, and because of his connection with the magical and spiritual elements of the world around him is soon also dubbed a wizard.
- Letters of Enchantment
series3 books2023
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Letters of Enchantment is Rebecca Ross's romantic fantasy duology: Divine Rivals (2023) and Ruthless Vows, with the novella Wild Reverence set in the same world. It follows two rival young journalists who discover they can exchange letters across a supernatural means of communication, while a war between gods and mortals escalates around their city. The two novels form one continuous story.
- The Historian
Elizabeth Kostovastandalone novel2005
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The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Țepeș and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown and Company, which bought it for US$2 million.
- Star Colony
Keith Laumerstandalone novel1981
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From the front flap of the St. Martin's Press first edition: "The History of Colmar in Three Volumes - Volume One: Star Colony This history is based on official Terran archives only recently released to scholars, as well as on letters and diaries of early settlers, supplemented by material from the Oral History Project initiated in honor of independent Colmar's Centennial celebrations in CY325 (AD2437). For the first time, the authentic course of events has been extracted and separated from its overlay of myth and folklore. Prepared by a distinguished board of editors under the leadership of our world's preeminent chronicler, the present history, designed especially for use in the schools through post-doctorate levels, will lay to rest for all time, it is earnestly hoped, the maze of conflicting legendary and mythical accounts of Early Times, which have heretofore clogged scholarly avenues of inquiry into Colmar's settlement, the origin of the curious dichotomy that has existed between our East and North Continents, and the events leading to Unification and, at last, to Independence itself."
- Canopus in Argos: Archives
series5 books1979
completed
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Canopus in Argos: Archives is a sequence of five science fiction novels by Nobel laureate author Doris Lessing, which portray a number of societies at different stages of development, over a great period of time. The focus is on accelerated evolution guided by advanced species for less advanced species and societies.
- House of Leaves
series2 books2000
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House of Leaves is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books. A bestseller, it has been translated into a number of languages, and is followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters.
