Books like '1996'
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Inception: The Shooting Script by Christopher J. Nolan
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsInception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento... -
![Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes]()
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 79 ratingsCharlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence--a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon... -
![The Girl from Devil's Lake by J.A. Jance]()
The Girl from Devil's Lake by J.A. Jance
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsArizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, from a body in the desert to crimes spanning decades and countries, in the thrilling latest installment in the New York Times bestselling suspense series.Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy... -
![Effacement by Hieronymus Hawkes]()
Effacement by Hieronymus Hawkes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen recording every aspect of your life has become the law, what happens when your connection to the world is severed? With the advent of BioNarratus’s Vitasync neurochip, serious crime has all but disappeared. Without a lifelog you can’t get a bank account, medical insurance, or a job... -
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![Torture the Artist by Joey Goebel]()
Torture the Artist by Joey Goebel
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVincent Spinetti is an archetypal tortured artist ? a sensitive young writer who falls victim to alienation, parental neglect, poverty, depression, alcoholism, illness, nervous breakdowns, and unrequited love... -
![The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson]()
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Here is how monstrous humans are."A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men: of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans... -
![The Ferryman by Justin Cronin]()
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFounded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent... -
![Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsBroad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn... -
![The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson]()
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 28 ratings&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr... -
![The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon]()
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be taught to get along in the world despite their differences... -
![The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin]()
The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end of his life, arrives at a rustic fishing camp in a remote area of Maine. He comes bearing two things: his wish for a day of fishing in a place that has brought him solace for thirty years, and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him... -
![Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn]()
Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeorge is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crisis, but George gets a quirky, philosophical physics professor named Shiloh... -
![ಯಾನ [Yaana] by S.L. Bhyrappa, ಎಸ್.ಎಲ್. ಭೈರಪ್ಪ]()
ಯಾನ [Yaana] by S.L. Bhyrappa, ಎಸ್.ಎಲ್. ಭೈರಪ್ಪ
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's a story of two astronauts (a man and a woman) travelling in a starship to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the earth which is around 4-6 light years away. The journey takes several decades. The novel focuses on scientific problems and human relationships... -
![The Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether]()
The Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this dog-eat-dog world, three friends find themselves getting nowhere in their careers despite their education and work skills. They decide to make their own rules to the game of life and play dirty to get ahead. Each of them concoct schemes to sabotage colleagues and clear the path for their swift advancement... -
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![20 Minutes To Go Viral by Daniel Hurst]()
20 Minutes To Go Viral by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomething is spreading in the peaceful town of Amberfall. Something that threatens the whole of humanity. Something is going viral. 20 Minutes. 20 People. 20 stories that will make you want to stay inside and never greet another human being again. This is a short novella about a viral outbreak in a small town in the Lake District and shows how quickly disease can spread amongst the population... -
![Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson]()
Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP ANOTHER PERSON. PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP NOT A PERSON AT ALL.”From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and “post-human” relationships... -
![The Affirmation by Christopher Priest]()
The Affirmation by Christopher Priest
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPeter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagines, world whose insidious attraction draws him even further in.. -
![The Effect by Lucy Prebble]()
The Effect by Lucy Prebble
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a control. This is all just you.The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial...Categorized as:
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![A Better World by Sarah Langan]()
A Better World by Sarah Langan
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe author of Good Neighbors , “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia” (NPR), returns with a provocative and disconcerting novel about a woman questioning her new home in an exclusive company town after a night out goes terribly wrong.Welcome to Plymouth Valley... -
![The Child Buyer by John Hersey]()
The Child Buyer by John Hersey
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a story of an investigation into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, a stranger who comes to the town of Pequot on urgent defense business. His business is to buy for his corporation children of a certain sort, in this case a ten-year-old named Barry Rudd, a budding genius of potentially critical value. A hearing is held and questions are asked: exactly why does Mr... -
![Receptor by Alan Glynn]()
Receptor by Alan Glynn
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of Limitless comes Receptor, an irresistable thriller that reveals the origins of MDT-48 and the consequences of unlocking the human mind.On a Friday evening in 1953, Madison Avenue ad executive Ned Sweeney enjoys a cocktail in the apartment of a strange and charismatic man he met hours earlier... -
![The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán]()
The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room... -
![Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk]()
Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Past Lives in this gripping, emotional story of two childhood friends navigating the fallout of one erasing their memory of the other, from acclaimed author Sarah Suk.Seventeen-year-old Yena Bae is spending the summer in Busan, South Korea, working at her mom’s memory-erasing clinic... -
![Don't Worry, Darling by Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke]()
Don't Worry, Darling by Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't Worry, Darling is a psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath. This screenplay featured in the 2019 Black List, and is now in development with Olivia Wilde attached as director. Wilde will also appear in the film alongside Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson... -
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![The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley]()
The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHow far would you go to protect your family?Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see...Categorized as:
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![The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker]()
The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this mind-bending novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother and her unconventional psychiatrist encounter strange dimensions of the human mind and love as they try to understand the eerie things that are happening to Jane...Categorized as:
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![Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann]()
Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow much grief is too much? How far should we go to avoid pain? From the author of the international bestselling novel Agatha comes a literary thriller about grief, love, science, and societal norms. A Danish university research group is finishing its study of a new medicine, the world’s first pill for grief... -
![Calypso's Guest by Andrew Sean Greer]()
Calypso's Guest by Andrew Sean Greer
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA bargain with the gods throws two men together in a timeless short story of adventure and unrequited love inspired by The Odyssey by Andrew Sean Greer, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less . A man in exile, banished to a planet far from home and cursed with immortality, discovers that a ship has crash-landed near his settlement. After two hundred years, his heart’s desire has come true... -
![The Candy House by Jennifer Egan]()
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own—featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad.It’s 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn]()
The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsImagine a drug that makes your brain function with perfect efficiency, tapping into your most fundamental resources of intelligence and drive, releasing all the passive knowledge you'd ever accumulated. A drug that made you focused, charming, fast, even attractive. Eddie Spinola is on such a drug. It's called MDT-48, and it's Viagra for the brain-a designer drug that's redesigning his life... -
![I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison]()
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFirst published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition... -
![They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen]()
They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA young man's decision to put career before family leads to chilling consequences.Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But when his lab is attacked by animal rights activists, Joe is forced to face the past and reconnect with the son he abandoned twenty years earlier... -
![Twelve Stories and a Dream by H.G. Wells]()
Twelve Stories and a Dream by H.G. Wells
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis carefully crafted ebook: "Twelve Stories and a Dream (The original 1903 edition of 13 fantasy and science fiction short stories)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: 1.Filmer 2.The Magic Shop 3.The Valley of Spiders d 4.The Truth About Pyecraft 5.Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland 6.The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost 7...Categorized as:
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![Daughter of Kura by Debra Austin]()
Daughter of Kura by Debra Austin
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"At first, Snap was aware of a few background noises -- a baby cried, the fire crackled, one of the older children laughed. Eventually, the other sounds disappeared, and she heard only the ancient rhythm of the drums, the dancers' voices, and the sounds of her own feet as they beat a path to an unclear future... -
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![The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier]()
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York... -
![Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley]()
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point... -
![The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son by David Gerrold]()
The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son by David Gerrold
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBasis for the major motion picture from New Line Cinema —starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack—in theaters November 2007When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he thought he had prepared himself for fatherhood. But eight-year-old Dennis turned out to be more than he expected—a lot more... -
![Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares]()
Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Obelisk edition of Diary of the War of the Pig marks the first time in paperback for this fictional chronicle about street terror and disappearances by the greatest living Argentine author... -
![Small Mercies: A Novel by Eddie Joyce, Scott Aiello]()
Small Mercies: A Novel by Eddie Joyce, Scott Aiello
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“An intimate family portrait.”—The New York Times “Eddie Joyce’s terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty.”—Richard Russo “An inside look at one Staten Island family’s struggle with grief . . . [A] poignant, deeply affecting tale.” —Martha Stewart Living, a Book Club selection “[A] terrific debut novel. . . -
![The Test by Sylvain Neuvel]()
The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAward-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The TestBritain, the not-too-distant future.Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.He wants his family to belong.Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death... -
![Zig Zag by José Carlos Somoza]()
Zig Zag by José Carlos Somoza
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhile an advanced physics graduate student at one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, Elisa Robledo, a young physics professor was invited to join a select research team working on manipulating String Theory, making it possible to witness images of the past as if they were live and actually happening... -
![The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq]()
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished... -
![Notes From a Coma by Mike McCormack]()
Notes From a Coma by Mike McCormack
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMerging sci-fi with an affectionate portrait of small-town Ireland, this cleverly imagined and constructed novel is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a look at how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us... -
![Sky Saw by Blake Butler]()
Sky Saw by Blake Butler
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI could go on at what these days were but the truth is I am tired. Would you even believe me if I did or didn't? Could this paper touch your face? I've spent enough years with my face arranged in books. I've read enough to crush my sternum. In each of the books are people talking, saying the same thing, their tongues thin and white and speckled.I don't want to be here. I want to get older... -
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![Diving Through Clouds by Nicola Lindsay]()
Diving Through Clouds by Nicola Lindsay
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKate Fitzgerald's spirit hovers above her hospital bed, looking down on her lifeless body. She finds herself far from extinguished but rather in some sort of limbo... -
![The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman]()
The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Downtown Owl, “the Ethicist” of the New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman returns to fiction with his second novel—an imaginative page-turner about a therapist and her unusual patient, a man who can render himself invisible... -
![The High-Rise Diver by Julia von Lucadou]()
The High-Rise Diver by Julia von Lucadou
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRiva is a “high-rise diver,” a top athlete with millions of fans, and a perfectly functioning human on all levels. Suddenly she rebels, breaking her contract and refusing to train. Cameras are everywhere in her world, but she doesn’t know her every move is being watched by Hitomi, the psychologist tasked with reining Riva back in... -
![Emporium by Adam Johnson]()
Emporium by Adam Johnson
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest—these are the compelling terrains Adam Johnson explores in his electrifying debut collection...Categorized as:
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![The Bug by Ellen Ullman]()
The Bug by Ellen Ullman
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn 1984, at the dawn of the personal-computer era, novice software tester Roberta Walton stumbles across a bug. She brings it to its inadvertent creator, longtime programmer Ethan Levin, and the two embark on a hunt for the elusive bug, nicknamed “The Jester” for its tendency to appear randomly and only at the least opportune moments, jeopardizing the fate of the company...Categorized as:
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![The Little Book by Selden Edwards]()
The Little Book by Selden Edwards
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, The Little Book is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siècle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the twentieth century...Categorized as:
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