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Arcadia by Iain Pears

In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares …

Less: a novel by Andrew Sean Greer

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on …

Ways of Being by James Bridle

The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow, David Graeber

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. …

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. Published in 2004, it is an …

Spook country by William Gibson

Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita …

Zero History (Blue Ant, #3) by William Gibson

Zero History is a novel by William Gibson published in 2010. It concludes the informal trilogy begun by Pattern Recognition …

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (Blue Ant, #1)

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given …

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An …

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)

Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. …