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  • The Humans by Matt Haig

    The Humans by Matt Haig

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    Body-snatching has never been so heartwarming . . .The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable novel about alien abduction, mathematics, and that most interesting subject of all: ourselves. Combine Douglas Adams’s irreverent take on life, the universe, and everything with a genuinely moving love story, and you have some idea of the humor, originality, and poignancy of Matt Haig’s latest novel...
  • নি by Humayun Ahmed

    নি by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    মবিনুর রহমানকে হাজতে ঢোকানোর তিন ঘন্টার ভেতর থানার চারপাশে দু’তিন হাজার মানুষ জমে গেল। তারা হৈ চৈ, চিৎকার কিছু করছেনা। চুপচাপ দাঁড়িয়ে আছে। সবাই শান্ত। এই লক্ষণ ভালো না। খুব খারাপ লক্ষণ। এরা থানা আক্রমণ করে বসতে পারে। থানায় আগুন লাগিয়ে দিতে পারে। থানায় টেলিফোন আছে- অতিরিক্ত ফোর্স চেয়ে টেলিফোন করা যায়। কিন্তু টেলিফোন গত এক সপ্তাহ থেকে...
  • This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

    This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad...
  • Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson

    Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Ultraviolet is genre-bending paranormal YA about a 17-year-old girl named Alison whois a synesthete (she hears color, sees sound, etc), a tetrachromat (she can see into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum), and possibly a murderer. Her only hope is a fraud, a liar, and maybe an alien. Or so she says...
  • Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles

    Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly underground alternate reality game might just be altering reality itself, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast. It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 pm...
  • The Cage by Megan Shepherd

    The Cage by Megan Shepherd

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn’t know where she is or who put her there. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments—tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a strangely empty town cobbled together from different cultures, all watched over by eerie black windows. And she isn’t alone...
  • Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

    Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    For Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid, intense nightmares. Haunted by the dreamer and her unrelenting dreams, Jeff leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil War in search of a cure...
  • As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott

    As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ava is welcomed home from the hospital by a doting mother, lively friends, and a crush finally beginning to show interest. There's only one problem: Ava can't remember any of them - and can't shake the eerie feeling that she's not who they say she is...
    Categorized as:
    drama  amnesia  book  contemporary  crime  death  dystopia  espionage
  • Erased, Volume 2 by Kei Sanbe

    Erased, Volume 2 by Kei Sanbe

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Satoru Fujinuma's power of Revival has sent him eighteen years into his past to relive his middle school days and prevent the death of his classmate Kayo Hinazuki. But even with the advantage of foreknowledge, Satoru finds himself unable to prevent Kayo from becoming a victim yet again...
  • Parasyte, Volume 1 by Hitoshi Iwaaki

    Parasyte, Volume 1 by Hitoshi Iwaaki

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    SILENT INVASIONThey arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive...
  • [Oshi No Ko], Vol. 8 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ

    [Oshi No Ko], Vol. 8 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After a major revelation, the flames of vengeance have died down in Aqua’s heart. At the same time, B Komachi is set to have their first music video (and boost their YouTube channel). Aqua is also headed to a vacation with the cast of the 2...
  • Gantz/4 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/4 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new game begins! The masochistic orb Gantz has gathered a new crew of ordinary citizens to play within its dangerous plot. The new draft picks and returning survivors are thrown headfirst into a new game promising a far more lethal prey...
  • Gantz/14 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/14 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A gang of vampire guys . . . who can grow samurai swords from their very flesh! Once again, Hiroya Oku is pushing the envelope with his crazy manga Gantz!And to add to it, these vampire yakuza guys might not even be aliens! This isn't a mission. These guys seem to know who is working for Gantz, and are coming after them. On the streets where they work and live. In the daylight...
  • Please Save My Earth, Vol. 1 by Saki Hiwatari

    Please Save My Earth, Vol. 1 by Saki Hiwatari

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Series Description: Part science fiction, part fantasy, and completely engrossing, this provocative manga stars sensitive high school student Alice Sakaguchi, who has a recurring dream that she's part of a team of alien scientists on the moon! She doesn't really believe it, until new evidence arrives...
    Categorized as:
    drama  amnesia  classics  comedy  comics  fiction  humor  literary
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