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Necropolis

Dan Abnett · 320 pages

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Dark Age

Pierce Brown · 906 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. “Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) He broke the chains. Then h

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Armor

John Steakley · 432 pages

Felix wanted to disappear. So he joined the armored infantry regiments invading the Bug home world. How long can the Engine in his mind beat the odds against survival?

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The Flight of the Eisenstein

James Swallow · 416 pages

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A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin · 764 pages

In this thrilling sequel to *A Game of Thrones*, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. *A Clash of Kings* transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced. ***A Clash of Kings*** A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Barat

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Ninefox Gambit

Yoon Ha Lee · 317 pages

Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next. Cheris's best ho

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Last Argument of Kings

Joe Abercrombie · 647 pages

The King of the Union lies on his deathbed, the peasants revolt, and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No one believes that the shadow of war is about to fall across the heart of the Union. Only the First of the Magi can save the world, but there are risks.

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City of Thieves

David Benioff · 286 pages

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives b

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First Lord's Fury

Jim Butcher · 465 pages

The next book in the thrilling New York Times bestselling series.For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war—and the rightful First Lord of Alera.But now, the savage Vord are on the mar

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Age of Darkness

Christian Dunn

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Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson · 544 pages

The opening chapter in an epic fantasy masterpiece....Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent.Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the af

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Rolling Hot

David Drake · 280 pages

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Storm of Iron

Graham McNeill · 320 pages

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All You Need Is Kill

Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ying Ban Yang · 256 pages

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Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein · 222 pages

Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette Rodger Young, about to embark on a raid against the planet of the

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Monsters of Men

Patrick Ness · 624 pages

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The Fall of Five

Pittacus Lore · 355 pages

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The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper · 240 pages

In 1757, the third year of the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, a colonial scout, and his friends, Chingachkook, a chief of the Mohicans, and his son Uncas risk their lives to guide two English sisters through hostile territory and evade the evil Huron, Magua, who is determined to destroy them.

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The Fury of the Gods

John Gwynne · 536 pages

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The Dragon Republic

R.F. Kuang · 654 pages

The searing follow-up to 2018's most celebrated fantasy debut - THE POPPY WAR.

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Twilight Company

Alexander Freed

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Dark Apostle

Anthony Reynolds · 416 pages

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Wolves of the Calla

Stephen King · 714 pages

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Old Man's War

John Scalzi · 319 pages

John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o

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