Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief – Book 1

Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school. Again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbooks and into his life.

Percy Jackson And The Sea Of Monsters – Book 2

After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, who makes it hard for Percy to have any “normal” friends. But things don’t stay quiet for long.

Percy Jackson And The Titan’s Curse – Book 3

When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it’s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. So they must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans.

Percy Jackson And The Battle Of The Labyrinth – Book 4

Percy Jackson isn’t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical.

Percy Jackson And The Last Olympian – Book 5

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos’ army is stronger than ever and his power only grows. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.

Shadow And Bone – Book 1

Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first battle. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes a dormant power she didn’t know she had.

Enter the Grishaverse with book one of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo.

Siege and Storm – Book 2

Alina Starkov’s power has grown, but not without a price. She is the Sun Summoner – hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Shadow Fold. But she and Mal can’t outrun their enemies for long.

Ruin And Rising – Book 3

The nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced trackers, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. As the Darkling rules from his shadow throne, a weakened Alina Starkov is recovering. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives.

Six Of Crows – Book 1

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . .

A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.

Crooked Kingdom – Book 2

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think they’d survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they’re right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz’s cunning and test the team’s fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city’s dark and twisting streets—a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.

King Of Scars – Book 1

The young king has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war and he intends to keep it that way. Yet with every day a dark magic grows stronger within him, threatening to destroy all he has built.

Rule Of Wolves – Book 2

As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm – and even the monster within – to win the fight. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king’s gift for the impossible.

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid’s voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy’s bidding but only for a terrible price.

The Lives Of Saints

Dive into the epic world of international bestselling author Leigh Bardugo with this beautifully illustrated replica of The Lives of Saints, the Istorii Sankt’ya. Featuring tales of saints drawn from the beloved novels and beyond. Out of the pages of the Shadow and Bone trilogy, from the hands of Alina Starkov to yours, the Istorii Sankt’ya is a magical keepsake from the Grishaverse.

Ninth House – Book 1

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.

Hellbent – Book 2

Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory—even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.

Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies’ most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls.

Wonder Woman: Warbringer

She will become one of the world’s greatest heroes: Wonder Woman. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. She longs to prove herself as a legendary warrior to her sisters. But when the opportunity comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law to save a mere mortal.

Out Of The Silent Planet – CS Lewis

Dr. Ransom is a Cambridge academic who is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet’s treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there.

All Systems Red – Martha Wells

On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied android. But this droid is a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module. It’s scornful of humans and just wants to be left alone. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, the scientists and their droid need to get to the truth.

Dawn – Octavia E Butler

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth. Hundreds of years later, she awakens deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft. Its piloted by the Oankali who saved humanity from extinction. Now it’s time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world.

Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night that Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city. And within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, the government breed child geniuses and trains them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, is drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Consider Phlebas – Iain M Banks

Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

Oryx And Crake – Margaret Atwood

Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human. And mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein

A revolution on a lunar penal colony—aided by a self-aware supercomputer—provides the framework for a story of a diverse group of men and women grappling with the ever-changing definitions of humanity, technology, and free will—themes that resonate just as strongly today as they did when the novel was first published.

Altered Carbon – Richard K Morgan

Assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful.

Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

The Forever War – Joe Haldeman

Conscripted into service for the United Nations Exploratory Force, a highly trained unit built for revenge, physics student William Mandella fights for his planet light years away against the alien force known as the Taurans.

Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them for a price. Until something goes wrong.

I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-reading robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world—all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asimov’s trademark. 

Foundation – Isaac Asimov

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations.

Doomsday Book – Connie Willis

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was not simple. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age. Winner of the Nebula and Hugo awards.

The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu

Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.

Leviathan Wakes – James S A Corey

Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for.

Slaughterhouse 5

Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee.

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep – Philip K Dick

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back.

Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Reality is an ugly place in the year 2045. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world. When the eccentric creator dies, he leaves behind a series of puzzles. Whoever is first to solve will inherit his fortune and control of OASIS.

Neuromancer – William Gibson

Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix. Until he crossed the wrong people and they banished him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful AI.

Hyperion – Dan Simmons

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who dear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy. In the Valley of the Time tombs, the Shrike waits for them all. Another Hugo award winning title!

The Martian – Andy Weir

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and his crew evacuates thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to signal Earth.

Dune – Frank Herbert

On the desert planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides is heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world. The only thing of value is the ‘spice’ melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. It’s a prize worth killing for. And when House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined.

The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin

A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent. Until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route. And Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien. After that, things get much, much worse.

The Time Machine – HG Wells

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701. The world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss. But as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class.

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag returns each day to his bland life and wife, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Committed science student Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. So, he assembles a human being from stolen body parts but – upon bringing it to life – he recoils in horror at the creature’s hideousness. And then the once-innocent creature turns evil.

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

In a technologically-advanced future, humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order. At the cost of their freedom, full humanity and perhaps also their souls.

A Wrinkle In Time – Madeleine L’Engle

It was a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack. But then they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. The stranger tells them about the existence of a wrinkle in time.

Madeleine L’Engle’s ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture.

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States – now known as the Republic of Gilead. A monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans.

Stranger In A Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein

Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of humankind, and as he teaches them about grokking and water-sharing, he also inspires a transformation that will alter Earth’s inhabitants forever…

The War Of The Worlds – HG Wells

Written between 1895 and 1897, H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Filmed numerous times, this science fiction classic retains its power to disturb readers more than a century later.

Ringworld – Larry Niven

Louis Wu, accompanied by a young woman with genes for luck, and a captured kzin – a warlike species resembling 8-foot-tall cats — are taken on a space ship run by a brilliant 2-headed alien called Nessus. Their destination is the Ringworld, an artificially constructed ring with high walls that hold 3 million times the area of Earth. Its origins are shrouded in mystery.

Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids.

Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

When German professor Otto Liedenbrock finds a coded message in an original runic manuscript of Snorri Sturluson’s Icelandic saga, Heimskringla, he discovers what he believes to be a secret passage to the center of the Earth. Professor Liedenbrock embarks immediately for Iceland on a journey of scientific discovery to prove his belief.

The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin

A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet Urras. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust..

Kindred – Octavia E. Butler

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke

The crew of the spacecraft Discovery are embarking on a mission to Saturn. Their vessel is controlled by HAL 9000. It’s an artificially intelligent supercomputer capable of the highest level of cognitive functioning that rivals—and perhaps threatens—the human mind.

The Man In The High Castle – Philip K Dick

It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the bureaucracy and Japan’s with Germany; and Juliana Frink, Frank’s ex-wife, who may be more important than she realizes.

The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn. First a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars and then is conquered by it. Lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.

Parable Of The Sower – Octavia E. Butler 

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

1984 – George Orwell

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger simply because his memory still functions.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

First published in 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea remains one of the most widely read adventure novels. The story follows the experiences of marine biologist Pierre Arronax and his companions, as guests – or prisoners – aboard the startlingly advanced submarine Nautilus under the command of the mysterious Captain Nemo.

The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury

You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.

The Invisible Man – HG Wells

A mysterious man named Griffen appears in a snowstorm at the local inn of the English village of Iping. Rarely emerging from his room, Griffen works continuously with a set of chemicals and laboratory apparatus. He’s a former medical student who has invented a chemical process to render bodies invisible. Having impulsively tried the formula upon himself, Griffen turns to crime to continue his experiments. 

The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

Bill Masen misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. But the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, someone else who managed to retain their sight. Together they leave the city and try to survive in this post-apocalyptic world.

Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

Pragmatic gambler Phileas Fogg has made a gentlemanly wager to the members of his exclusive club: that he can circle the world in just eighty days, right down to the minute. Fetching his newly appointed French valet, Fogg embarks on a fabulous journey across land and sea—by steamer, rail, and elephant—to win the bet of a lifetime.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Henry Jekyll no longer wants to inhibit his dark side. He concocts a potion to create the alter ego of Mr. Edward Hyde. With the burden of evil placed on Hyde, Jekyll can now take pleasure in his immoral, nefarious fantasies—free of conscience and guilt. It’s when Hyde turns to murder that Jekyll realizes how monstrous his impulses are and how hard they are to suppress.

Dune – Book 1

On the desert planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides is heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world. The only thing of value is the ‘spice’ melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. It’s a prize worth killing for. And when House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined.

Dune Messiah – Book 2

Paul Atreides is better known and feared as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty.

Children Of Dune – Book 3

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities. Thus making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides. But Alia’s rule is not absolute as she faces treason on two fronts.

God Emperor Of Dune – Book 4

Millenia have passed on Arrakis and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years. And his rule is not a benevolent one. A rebellion is rising.

Heretics Of Dune – Book 5

The Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis has reverted to its desert climate. Now the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. A girl named Sheena rises to prominence in the wastelands, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy.

Chapterhouse Dune – Book 6

The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest – the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power.

Hunters Of Dune (Dune Sequels Book 1, The Dune Sequence Book 7)

At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune–Frank Herbert’s final novel–a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy.

As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan’s no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy. To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology from Scytale, the last Tleilaxu Master, to revive key figures from Dune’s past—including Paul Muad’Dib and his beloved Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh. Each of these characters will use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.

Failure is unthinkable–not only is their survival at stake, but they hold the fate of the entire human race in their hands.

Sandworms Of Dune (Dune Sequels Book 2, The Dune Sequence Book 8)

At the end of Frank Herbert’s final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune’s past–including Paul Muad’Dib and Lady Jessica–to use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.

Based directly on Frank Herbert’s final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, Sandworms of Dune will answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine.

Sisterhood Of Dune (The Schools Of Dune Book 1)

It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus, flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen, convicted of cowardice, was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil, and his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes.

Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly “spacefolder ships”.

Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so, decades after the defeat of the thinking machines, anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets, with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges…

Mentats Of Dune (The Schools Of Dune Book 2)

Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal—to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she blames for her family’s downfall.

Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo’s anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily . . .

The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity’s future—whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age.

Navigators Of Dune (The Schools Of Dune Book 1)

The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces off against fanaticism. These events have far-reaching consequences that will set the stage for Dune, millennia later.

The Butlerian Jihad (The Legends Of Dune Book 1)

Ten thousand years before the events of Dune, humans have managed to battle the remorseless Machines to a standstill . . . but victory may be short-lived. Yet amid shortsighted squabbling between nobles, new leaders have begun to emerge. Among them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus; Xavier’s fiancée, Serena Butler, an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions; and Tio Holtzman, the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause. Against the brute efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. It will have to be enough.

The Machine Crusade (The Legends Of Dune Book 2)

The first battle was a victory. But the war is just beginning . . .

Earth is a radioactive ruin. But the initial campaign of the Butlerian Jihad has given new hope to mankind. Serena
Butler, whose murdered child has become a symbol for oppressed humanity, inspires a war against the thinking computers led by Xavier Harkonnen and Vorian Atreides.

But four of the Titans – murderous machines with human brains and human cunning – still remain. And the universal computer mind, Omnius, still wields most of its power.

The Battle Of Corrin (The Schools Of Dune Book 3)

It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of struggle, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight.

Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets . . . and once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.

In the greatest battle in science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time. . . . And on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad’Dib in Frank Herbert’s classic, Dune.

Paul Of Dune (Heroes Of Dune Book 1)

The Muad’Dib’s jihad is in full swing. His warrior legions march from victory to victory. But beneath the joy of victory there are dangerous undercurrents. Paul, like nearly every great conqueror, has enemies–those who would betray him to steal the awesome power he commands. . . .

And Paul himself begins to have doubts: Is the jihad getting out of his control? Has he created anarchy? Has he been betrayed by those he loves and trusts the most? And most of all, he wonders: Am I going mad?

The Winds Of Dune (Heroes Of Dune Book 2)

With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah.

Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and is presumed dead. Jessica and Gurney are on Caladan; Alia is trying to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan; Mohiam dead at the hands of Stilgar; Irulan imprisoned. Paul’s former friend, Bronso of Ix, now seems to be leading opposition to the House of Atreides. Herbert and Anderson’s newest book in this landmark series will concentrate on these characters as well the growing battle between Jessica, and her daughter, Alia.

The Duke Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 1)

While Leto tries to raise Paul to be a worthy leader, a deadly new drug from the deep forests of Caladan spreads and kills … a dark stain on Atreides honor.

At the same time, a revolutionary movement seeks to destroy the Corrino empire that has stood for ten thousand years. With increasing desperation, this rebellion turns to acts of unspeakable violence. And one rebel leader will stop at nothing to recruit Leto to their cause.

Can Duke Leto survive with his legendary honor—and his family—intact? 

The Duke of Caladan tells the intertwined stories of some of the most revered characters in science fiction.

The Lady Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 2)

In the year before DUNE, House Atreides is torn apart, caught in power plays among the Imperium, the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the CHOAM Company, and House Harkonnen. 

Lady Jessica, mother of Paul and consort to Leto Atreides, is torn from her home and her family. Her choices will shape an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. Refusing to become a pawn, she must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood is more important than the love of her own family.

Duke Leto must stand up to corruption and disgrace, refusing to become a pawn in a violent uprising bent on bringing down Emperor Shaddam IV.

Paul, the heir to Caladan, stands with his friends and protectors—Duncan Idaho, Gurney Halleck, and Thufir Hawat—and he must learn to become a true leader before House Atreides spirals out of control.

Meanwhile, complex schemes in the sprawling, corrupt Imperium are accelerating, pulling Lady Jessica, Duke Leto, and Paul on a collision course with destiny.

The Heir Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 3)

He is Paul Atreides. The son of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica, the heir of Caladan. He will become the fabled Muad’Dib.

Before he set foot on the sands of Arrakis, Paul was forged into the young man who would become a great leader, a hero … even a tyrant. Just as he turns fifteen years old, Paul is faced with turbulent crises on Caladan—political turmoil, as well as the unraveling of his family.

Young Paul is left to serve as the steward to Caladan, his beloved and beautiful world … and in preparation for that, the young man has been trained in mental acuity by the warrior Mentat Thufir Hawat, pushed to the extremes of his abilities by the faithful Swordmaster Duncan Idaho, and taught in natural science by the Suk Doctor Wellington Yueh, who harbors his own dark secret.

Paul must meet every challenge, grow and become strong enough to protect a world … but the heir of Caladan does not know that these trials will shape him into the man who will conquer an entire Imperium.

Parable Of The Sower

A New York Times Notable Book: In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.

“A stunner.” —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture. A culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path. Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed. She is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety. Along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

Parable Of The Talent (Book 2)

Parable Of The Talent was published in 1998 and the second book in the Parable series.

In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.

Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering – and the truth about her mother.

In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches ‘God Is Change’. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers – or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.

Deadly Enemy – Gray Lanter

Logan Ryvenbark thrives on long odds. He and his squad of brave men and women have made it a habit of overcoming impossible situations. But after accepting an assignment from a powerful intergalatic CEO, his team will encounter the real threat lurking just beyond the borders of the galaxy.

Quantum Tangle – Chris Reher

Dropping out of sub-space into the wrong galactic sector, Sethran Kada wakes up with a headache and an extraordinary alien aboard his ship. She implores him to help stop the abductions of her people. But things get personal when his alien visitor begins to transform his mind and his life.

Alien Hunters – Daniel Arenson

The skelkrins are predators from deep space. Creatures of claws, fangs and unending malice. They swarm across the galaxy, burning planets in their wake. And now they’re heading to Earth. It’s up to Raphael “Riff” Starfire and his team to hunt them down.

Star Nomad – Lindsay Buroker

The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration. But not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she’s stranded on a dustball of a planet. However, she has a plan to return to her home.

Broken World – Kate L Mary

When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Vivian sets out for California in the hopes of seeing the daughter she gave up for adoption. Then her car breaks down and she’s faced with the choice: give up or accept a ride from risky strangers.

Grace Lost – M Lauryl Lewis

Two childhood friends, an abandoned cabin in the woods, and a lazy weekend together. Until a dead man stumbles out of the woods. They are thrown together in a race to find safety in a world where the rules of nature have suddenly been rewritten.

Exodus – Andreas Christensen

In 2072, Earth faces the ultimate extinction event. And in an America turned authoritarian, a race against time begins. To send a starship to a distant planet, where the remains of humanity can survive. But only a small number will be chosen for this final endeavor. And among the contenders, only the most resourceful will have a chance.

Mutation – Nerys Wheatley

Alex survived the virus that turns its victims into mindless flesh-eaters, but it left him mutated, with super-human strength and white eyes. The world has lived with the virus for thirteen years, but now a new strain is turning thousands into ravenous monsters, faster than ever before. And Alex is trapped right in the middle of an outbreak.

Starshine – G S Jennsen

Alexis Solovy is Earth Alliance royalty, her father a fallen war hero and her mother an influential military leader. But she seeks only the freedom of space and has made a fortune by reading the patterns in the chaos to discover the hidden wonders of the stars. Nothing about her latest objective suggests the secret it conceals will turn her life upside down.

New Reality: Truth – Michael Robertson

When the Rixon Corporation released New Reality, a fully immersive, five-dimensional entertainment experience, everyone logged on. Everyone except Jake and Tom. Living in the ruins of the old world, the pair face the wrath of Rixon and starvation as they embark on a fight for survival and freedom.

E – Kate Wrath

Life is harsh. It makes no exceptions. Not even for the innocent. Eden is determined, smart, and a born survivor. Stripped of her memories and dumped on the streets of the Outpost, slavers and starvation are only the beginning of her problems. A devastating conflict is coming that threatens to consume her world and tear her newfound family apart.

The Backdoor Man – Dave Buschi

All credit cards have stopped working. Today. This morning. What cash you have in your wallet is it. ATMs and bank systems are down. James Kolinsky’s day goes from bad to worse when he discovers that his greatest fear is his fault and what’s happened to him has happened to millions of others.

Ashes Of The Fall – Nicolas Erik

In the year 2048, the crumbling remnants of western North America are suddenly buried in ash, weakening the grip of the brutal dictatorship. A factional landscape springs from the ashes, con man Luke Stokes artfully navigating the clash. But he can’t remain above the fray for long.

Trilisk Ruins – Michael McCloskey

Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans have found alien artifacts. But they haven’t ever encountered live aliens. When a group of artifact smugglers recruits Telisa, she can’t pass up the chance at getting her hands on objects that could advance her life’s work. But she soon learns her expectations of excitement and riches come with serious drawbacks.

Sky Hunter – Chris Reher

Air Command pilot Nova Whiteside is assigned to a remote outpost to guard the construction of a new orbiter against rebel sabotage. But when she is trapped behind enemy lines in a bloody uprising she meets Djari, a civilian whose trust in the governing Union is shattered by what he has witnessed.

Vengeance Lost – J L Stowers

Humanity has been fighting the alien threat for decades, and the war just ratcheted up a notch. Sent to aid a dreadnaught under siege, Dani Devereaux and the crew of Alaska’s Vengeance find themselves caught in a trap.

The Boy Who Fell From The Sky – Jule Owen

It is 2055. Floods have devastated London. Confined to his house with only his cat, his mother’s domestic robot, and his holographic dragons for company, Mathew Erlang is desperate for a distraction. He finds it in his peculiar and reclusive neighbour, August Lestrange.

Oasis – Dima Zales

Theo is a resident of Oasis, the last habitable area on Earth. It’s meant to be a paradise, a place where we are all content. Vulgarity, violence, insanity, and other ills are but a distant memory, and even death no longer plagues us.

Mind Machines – Dima Zales

With billions in the bank and his own venture capital firm, Mike is living the American dream. Until a car accident that leaves his mother with memory problems. Brainocytes, a new technology that can transform brains, could be the answer to all of his problems. But he’s not the only one who sees its potential.

The Thought Readers – Dima Zales

I may have finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that’s not because I’m unusually smart or hard-working. It’s because I cheat. I can go outside time into my own personal version of reality where I can explore my surroundings while the rest of the world stands still. I thought I was the only one who could do this—until I met her.

The Institute – Kayla Howarth

Allira Daniels will do anything to keep her Defective brother safe from the Institute. They claim to protect Defectives, but it’s human nature to fear the unknown. To Allira and the rest of her family, the Institute seems more like a prison than the safe-haven they promote themselves to be. Protecting Shilah from that fate is their number one priority.

Fallen Star – Richard Turner

A sudden and brutal attack on a coalition training camp in Iraq wipes out all but two survivors. Drawn into a clandestine world that deals with unusual encounters the two soldiers volunteer to help with the investigation into an alleged UFO crash in Alaska. The mission, however, is far from simple as it soon becomes apparent that something dangerous is going on.

The Enemy Of The Enemy – Vincent Trigili

Vydor is riding a wave of success. But now his ship, the Dragon Claw, is being sent to investigate a mysterious event deep within the Empire’s space. A secret research colony has fallen silent and the forces sent to investigate were never heard from again.

Qualify – Vera Nazarian

The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help. They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth’s population. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.

Rift – Andreas Christensen

In the ruins of what was once North America lays the Covenant, a nation forged by the iron will of the Moon people. They are wealthy, ruled by a strong government who protects its citizens from the dangers from outside their borders. Their greatest achievement is having learned the secret of immortality. And every citizen has the opportunity to live nearly forever if they choose to.

Next Afterburn – Scott Nicholson

Five years after a devastating solar storm wipes out civilization and spawns a strange race of mutants, Rachel Wheeler and her misfit family must choose whether to hide away or fight to join other survivors. In this decaying environment, hostile new creatures crawl out from the crevices and up from the waterways to threaten them all.

Outlaw – Edward W Robertson

In the year 2010, an alien virus nearly wiped out the human race. A thousand years later, mankind has recovered and ventured into space. There has been no sign of the aliens since. Humanity remains confined to the Solar System. All that is about to change.

Yesterday’s Thief – AL Macy

Private detective Eric Beckman can read minds. Although he reads only the conscious thoughts of the people he interviews, it usually gives him enough of an edge to overcome his inexperience as a PI. But mind reading is hell on relationships. Trusting comes hard when you know what people are really thinking.

AMP Messenger – Stephen Arseneault

In a distant galaxy, Humans are on the run. An insane species follows. Trapped on an immense station with limited resources, our only option has been to flee. Years of peace are over. War is again coming to the Grid. This time however, humanity will stand and fight.

Flying The Storm – C S Arnot

The Gilgamesh is a colossal airborne warship and relic of the Thirty-Year War. Once the glorious flagship of the North Atlantic Union, it has become a hive of renegades and pirates, unchallenged in the skies over Eurasia. Like an angry god, it dominates wherever and whomever it chooses. Now it has chosen the Crimean Peninsula, the most lucrative trade hub on the Black Sea.

Forager – Peter R Stone

Twenty-year-old Ethan Jones lives in a post-apocalyptic, oppressive society that terminates anyone with mutations caused by nuclear radiation. But he has an incredible mutation that gives him an edge when foraging in Melbourne’s ruins. His life becomes complicated when he rescues a mysterious Japanese girl from the Skel and brings her back with him. 

Incubation – Laura Disilverio

Bio-chemistry whiz Everly Jax wants one thing: to know who her parents are. Raised with other repo kids in InKubator 9, she has pinned her hopes on Reunion Day, the annual event where sixteen-year-olds can meet or reunite with their parents. When her Reunion Day goes horribly awry, she and her pregnant friend Halla escape the Kube, accompanied by their friend Wyck.

How High We Go In The Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu

Release Date: January 18 2022

In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come.

Dead Silence – SA Barnes

Release Date: February 8 2022

Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find is shocking: the Aurora, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago.

The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi

Release Date: March 15 2022

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. Until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn’t tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth.

Light Years from Home – Mike Chen

Release Date: January 25 2022

Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, convinced he’d been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing. When Evie’s UFO network uncovers a new event, she goes to investigate. And discovers Jakob is back.

Goliath – Tochi Onyebuchi

Release Date: January 25 2022

In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. What was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.

Mickey 7 – Edward Ashton

Release Date: February 15 2022

Dying isn’t any fun, but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable. A disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous the crew turns to Mickey. On a fairly routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, there’s a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties.

Bluebird – Ciel Pierlot

Release Date: February 8 2022

Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig doesn’t give a damn about them and she hasn’t looked back since abandoning her faction three years ago. That is, until her former faction sends her a message: return what she stole from them, or they’ll kill her twin sister.

The Moonday Letters – Emmi Itäranta 

Release Date: July 5 2022

Lumi is an Earth-born healer whose Mars-born spouse Sol disappears unexpectedly on a work trip. As Lumi begins her quest to find Sol, she delves gradually deeper into Sol’s secrets and her own.

A Half-Built Garden – Ruthanna Emrys

Release Date: July 26 2022

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm. And stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth.

Deep Dive – Ron Walters

Release Date: January 11 2022

Still reeling from the failure of his last project, videogame developer Peter Banuk is working hard to ensure his next game doesn’t meet the same fate. So when Peter’s tech-genius partner offers him the chance to beta-test a new state-of-the-art virtual reality headset, he jumps at it. But something goes wrong during the trial.

Eyes of the Void – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Release Date: May 3 2022

After eighty years of fragile peace, the Architects are back, wreaking havoc as they consume entire planets. In the past, Originator artefacts could save a world from annihilation. This time, the Architects have discovered a way to circumvent these protective relics. And suddenly, no planet is safe.

Hunt The Stars – Jessie Mihalik

Release Date: February 1 2022

Octavia Zarola would do anything to keep her tiny, close-knit bounty hunting crew together. Even if it means accepting a job from Torran Fletcher, a ruthless former general and her sworn enemy. When Torran offers her enough credits to not only keep her crew afloat but also hire someone to fix her ship, Tavi knows that she can’t refuse.

Manhunt – Gretchen Felker-Martin

Release Date: February 22 2022

Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they’ll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren’t safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate all sorts of dangerous enemies.

The Starless Crown – James Rollins

Release Date: January 4 2022

A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, a drunken prince, and an imprisoned thief. On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive. But with each passing moment, doom draws closer.

The Memory Librarian – Janelle Monáe

Release Date: April 19 2022

Whoever controls our memories controls the future.

Expanding from that mythos, these stories fully explore what it’s like to live in such a totalitarian existence and what it takes to get out of it. The Memory Librarian serves readers tales grounded in the human trials of identity expression, technology, and love, but also reaching through to the worlds of memory and time within, and the stakes and power that exists there.

Stars and Bones – Gareth L. Powell

Release Date: March 1 2022

Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks. Each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities.  When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her.

The This – Adam Roberts

Release Date: February 3 2022

The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allow you to connect with others without even picking up your phone. Its followers are growing. Its detractors say it is a cult. But for one journalist, hired to do a puff-piece interview with their CEO, it will change the world forever.

Nona The Ninth – Tamsyn Muir

Release Date: September 13 2022

In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona’s not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger’s body, and she’s afraid she might have to give it back. As well as this, the whole city is falling to pieces.

Devil House – John Darnielle

Release Date: January 25 2022

Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.

Sisters of the Forsaken Stars – Lina Rather

Release Date: February 22 2022

Not long ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth’s tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewing in the Four Systems, and Old Earth is flexing its power in a bid to regain control over its lost territories.
The Order of Saint Rita bore witness to and defied Central Governance’s atrocities on the remote planet Phyosonga III. The sisters have been running ever since, staying under the radar while still trying to honor their calling.

Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel

Release Date: April 5 2022

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. 

The Women Could Fly – Megan Giddings

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Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother’s disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. But fourteen years have passed since her mother’s disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Book 1

It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien. After that, things get much, much worse.

The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe – Book 2

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.

Life, The Universe And Everything – Book 3

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish – Book 4

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.

Mostly Harmless – Book 5

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose.

And Another Thing – Book 6 (written by Eoin Colfer)

Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author’s widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be continued by the international number one bestselling children’s writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Douglas Adams himself once said, ‘I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book. Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number.’

A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke

The crew of the spacecraft Discovery are embarking on a mission to Saturn. Their vessel is controlled by HAL 9000. It’s an artificially intelligent supercomputer capable of the highest level of cognitive functioning that rivals the human mind.

Binti Series – Nnedi Okorafor

The Binti Trilogy is a series of 3 novella in the African Futuristic science fiction genre. There are three titles in the series – Binti, Binti: Home and Binti: The Night Masquerade. The series follows the story of the protagonist, a young woman called Binti as she leaves earth to study at a prestigious university in space.

Takeshi Kovacs – Richard K Morgan

Takeshi Kovac is the name of the protagonist in this series from Richard K Morgan. The series is cyberpunk and is set in the future where interstellar travel and immortality is possible by transferring consciousness between bodies. The first book in the series was adapted into a Netflix series.

The Dune Chronicles – Frank Herbert

The series kicks off in book one on the desert planet Arrakis. So, Paul Atreides is heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world. The only thing of value is the ‘spice’ melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. It’s a prize worth killing for. And when House Atreides is betrayed, Paul will set out on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined.

Hainish Cycle – Ursula K LeGuin

The Hainish Cycle is made up of several novels and short stories from acclaimed sci fi author Ursula K LeGuin. The series is set in an alternate universe where humans live on planets orbiting nearby stars. In time these planets begin to contact each other in an effort to establish diplomatic relations. Certainly, this is a series not to miss from a huge name in sci fi.

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Don’t panic! That’s one of the messages from this comedy sci fi series from Douglas Adams. It’s the story of the last human who somehow survived the senseless destruction of the earth. And thus their subsequent adventures in space attempting to discover the meaning of life (or a decent cup of tea!). So, Arthur Dent miraculously survives the end of the world with a twist of fate. He is then is taken on a journey into space with Ford Prefect. A human like alien who so happens to be the writer for The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

The Patternist Series – Octavia E Butler

Another entry on this list from sci fi author Octavia E Butler and this was her first published series. So, the Patternist Series that deals with a secret history which begins in ancient Eygpt and runs right through to the future. Black Women In America details that the series details “racial and gender-based animosity, the ethical implications of biological engineering, the question of what it means to be human, ethical and unethical uses of power, and how the assumption of power changes people.”

The Culture Series – Iain M Banks

The Culture Series is a sci fi series from Scottish author Iain M Banks. The first book was released in 1987 and the last one in 2012. The books follow the story of The Culture. So, this a society of humanoid aliens and superintelligent AI spread across the galaxy of the Milky Way. Additionally, the series focuses on the dilemmas that advanced civilizations face when dealing with less advanced civilizations. Each book in the series is a self contained story and there are different characters in each book. But each novels does reference to events in previous novels.

The Sprawl Trilogy – William Gibson

The Sprawl Trilogy is the first series of novels from author William Gibson. So, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive make up the series. Additionally, the books are all set in the same future and are linked by characters and themes. The books take place in alternate history after a fictional World War 3 where the world is dominated by corporations and technology. So, the arc over the entire series is the development of Artificial Intelligence and the chance that it is capable of developing into something else. This book has been the inspiration for many sci fi video games.

Mars Trilogy – Kim Stanley Robinson

The Mars Trilogy is a science fiction series from Kim Stanley Robinson. The series is made up of Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. So, he books follow the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars. Additionally, the story is told from the viewpoint of many characters and it covers almost two centuries. The main focus of the story is the scientific advances that are being made on Mars. Meanwhile Earth is suffering from overpopulation and ecological disaster. The series has been the recipient of a great many awards and it isn’t one to miss!

Imperial Radch – Ann Leckie

The Imperial Radch series is the debut space opera series from Ann Leckie. So, the book tells the story of Breq who is the sole survivor of a destroyed starship. Breq is seeking revenge against the ruler of their civilization.

The first novel in the series, Ancillary Justice was the recipient of much critical praise and it is the only novel ever to have won the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C Clarke awards.

Silo Trilogy – Hugh Howie

The Silo trilogy is a post apocalyptic series from author Hugh Howie. It begins with Wool and continues with Shift and Dust. The story takes place on a post apocalyptic earth where humanity struggles to survive in the Silo. The Silo is a subterranean city far far below the surface of the earth. The books follow a number of different characters as they try to solve the mystery of the Silo and the secrets it holds.

Xenogenesis Series – Octavia E Butler

The Xenogenesis series from Octavia E Butler is now more widely known as Lillith’s Brood. The series is set in a post apocalyptic world where an alien race calls on one woman to revive mankind. So for the first time since the nuclear holocaust Earth will be inhabited. But the children will not be exactly human.

The series has won many awards, including the Hugo and Nebula awards and is another series not to be missed from this amazing sci fi author.

Remembrance Of Earth’s Past – Cixin Liu

Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming. They plan to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The series is also soon to be made into a Netflix original series!

The Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold

The Vorkosigan Saga is a science fiction series from American author Lois McMaster Bujold. It is made up of a series of novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe. The first title was published in 1986 and the most recent in 2018. The story is told from varying view points. When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan. Who is the commander of the Barrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambitious and ruthless crew member. Aral and Cordelia survive countless mishaps while their mutual admiration and even stronger feelings emerge.

The Foundation Series – Isaac Asimov

The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best—and worst—that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.

Oxford Time Travel Series – Connie Willis

Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop’s bird stump. It’s part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier.  

But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself. Winner of the Nebula and Hugo awards.