Our shelf
Books we've actually read and loved.
Fantasy
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Fantasy
Throne of Glass
Throne of Glass #1
Our pick
Celaena Sardothien, an eighteen-year-old assassin pulled from a prison mine, must win a deadly contest to become the king's champion. The start of a long series that grows into a full epic, with plenty of romance.
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Fantasy
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Dungeon Crawler Carl #1
Our pick
When an alien game show flattens Earth's buildings, Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, are dropped into a deadly televised dungeon where every floor gets stranger. Brutal, very funny LitRPG that wins over people who've never read LitRPG.
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Fantasy
The Way of Kings
The Stormlight Archive #1
Our pick
A slave soldier, a scholar with a secret and a highprince haunted by visions are pulled into a war on a storm-battered world. A huge, slow-building epic that pays off enormously; book one of the Stormlight Archive.
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Fantasy
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Mistborn #1
Our pick
In a world of ash and mist ruled by an immortal tyrant, a street thief discovers she can burn metals for power and joins a crew planning the ultimate heist: overthrowing the Lord Ruler. The classic first Sanderson.
Sci-Fi
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Sci-Fi
Project Hail Mary
Our pick
A man wakes alone on a spaceship with no memory and slowly realizes he's humanity's last hope against a threat to the sun. Clever problem-solving sci-fi with real heart and an unforgettable friendship.
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Sci-Fi
Red Rising
Red Rising #1
Our pick
Darrow, a miner at the bottom of a color-coded caste system on Mars, is remade to infiltrate the ruling Golds and tear them down from the inside. Fast, violent space-opera revenge with a brutal war-school first act.
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Sci-Fi
Dark Matter
Our pick
A physicist is abducted on his way home and wakes up in a life that isn't his. A breakneck thriller about the roads not taken, built on a mind-bending sci-fi idea.
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Sci-Fi
Children of Time
Children of Time #1
Our pick
Humanity's last ark ship reaches a terraformed planet and finds it already claimed: by spiders uplifted by a failed experiment. A big-ideas epic told across thousands of years, and more moving than it sounds.
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Sci-Fi
The Ministry of Time
Our pick
A civil servant is assigned to help a Victorian naval officer, pulled from a doomed 1840s expedition, adjust to modern London. A witty time-travel story that's part romance, part spy thriller.
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Sci-Fi
Operation Bounce House
Our pick
From the author of Dungeon Crawler Carl: a farming colony fights back when a reality show turns its planet into a battlefield. Giant mechs, gamer chaos and Dinniman's dark humor.
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Sci-Fi
Tailored Realities
Our pick
A collection of Sanderson's short fiction outside his big Cosmere sagas, mostly science fiction with some fantasy. A great sampler of his ideas in bite-size form.
Adventure
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Adventure
The Da Vinci Code
Robert Langdon #2
Our pick
A murder in the Louvre sends symbologist Robert Langdon racing across Paris and London to decode a trail of clues hidden in famous art. The original puzzle-box chase thriller.
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Adventure
The Seventh Floor
Our pick
A CIA officer forced out after a botched operation in Russia starts to suspect a mole inside the agency. A sharp, authentic spy thriller from a former CIA analyst.
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