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The Martian by Andy Weir (The Martian, #1)

A mission to Mars.

A freak accident.

One man's struggle to survive.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark …

Randomize by Andy Weir

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative …

The Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)

Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty

The city of brass by S. A. Chakraborty

"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the …

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club, #3)

One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads the Thursday Murder Club to …

How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world …

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club, #2)

Lies, Inc. by Philip K. Dick

[The Unteleported Man][1] (later republished in a greatly expanded version as Lies, Inc.) is a 1966 science fiction novel by …

Nightmare Abbey (1818) by Thomas Love Peacock

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #1)

The Eye of the World is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert Jordan, the first book of The Wheel …

Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants by Garrett Ryan

Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine …

Thursday Murder Club Book 3 by Richard Osman

The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace by Lucy Worsley