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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSuper Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart · 334 pages
A dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years, and of the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. "In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of a Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of 'printed, bound media artifacts' (aka boo
Munmun
Jesse Andrews · 330 pages
In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute—and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that bigger richer people don't ever have to think
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 306 pages
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut - wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
Extras
Scott Westerfeld · 417 pages
Now that the world is in a complete cultural renaissance, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but Aya knows that would propel her into celebrity--a status she's not prepared for.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
A Coast Guard vet named Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, are trapped in a fantasy dungeon. Read by Jeff Hays. 13 hours, 31 minutes unabridged.
Dungeon Crawler Carl.
The Dungeon Archivist · 14 pages
The Earth is gone. The surface is flattened. And the apocalypse is being televised. When an enormous alien corporation called the Syndicate arrives at Earth, they don't ask questions. Using planetary-scale mining tech, they instantly flatten every building on the globe, crushing billions of humans in seconds. The only survivors? The incredibly lucky few who happened to be standing outdoors at that
The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
Kate Hattemer · 329 pages
"When a sleazy reality television show takes over Ethan's arts academy, he and his friends concoct an artsy plan to take it down"--
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
Ender's War
Orson Scott Card · 634 pages
Twice the buggers — as we call them — invaded our solar system and tried to annihilate us. We defeated them in the last war by a fluke. but we won't trust to luck again. When they return — and they will return. even if decades go by and the horror fades into myth — we must be ready.. ENDER'S GAME (An expansion of the novelette of the same name). He was the third of his parents' children to be mon
First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
Evan Mandery · 267 pages
The hyper-intelligent Rigelians urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States is skeptical of the evidence presented to him, and sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of many.
Armada
Ernest Cline · 400 pages
Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. But hey, there's nothing wrong with a li
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain · 270 pages
The Invaders Plan
L. Ron Hubbard · 615 pages
A monumental work--accompanied as a genuine masterpiece -- L. Ron Hubbard's 1.2-million-word--ten-volume MISSION EARTH dekalogy brilliantly blends science fiction and action/adventure on a vast interstellar scale with stinging satire--in the literary tradition of Voltaire, Swift and Orwell--on the world's foibles and fancies. Each volume, in turn, became a New York Times and then an international
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
Lionel Shriver · 431 pages
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 215 pages
This beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the original publication—with all-new art by award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly af
The Fresco
Sheri S. Tepper · 411 pages
The bizarre events that have been occurring across the United States-unexplained "oddities" tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths-seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton's life. That is, until the soft-spoken thirty-six year-old bookstore manager is approached by a pair of aliens who request that she transmit a "message of peace" to the powers-that-be in Wash
My Teacher is an Alien
Bruce Coville · 123 pages
Sixth grade is just out of this world... Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird. But she doesn't know how weird until she catches him peeling off his face -- and she realizes that "Mr. Smith" is really an alien! At first no one will believe her -- except Peter Thompson, the class brain. When Peter and Susan discover Mr. Smith's horrible plans for their classmates, t
Me and Kaminski
Daniel Kehlmann · 195 pages
Confronting a series of personal, romantic, and professional failures, Sebastian Zollner prepares to interview Manuel Kaminski, an eccentric and legendary painter living in seclusion as he loses his sight, with the intent of writing a definitive biography of the artist.
The Mount
Carol Emshwiller · 240 pages
Charley is an athlete. He wants to be painted crossing the finish line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. But Charley isn't a runner. He is a human mount, the property of one of the alien invaders called Hoots. Charley hasn't seen his mother in years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains with the other Free Humans. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back. Cha
The Zap Gun
Philip K. Dick · 256 pages
The Zap Gun is a 1967 science fiction novel by American author Philip K. Dick. It was written in 1964 and first published under the title Project Plowshare as a serial in the November 1965 and January 1966 issues of Worlds of Tomorrow magazine.[1]