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Authors, their books, and the best place to start
Discover novelists, essayists, historians, scientists, and poets, then follow their work from the book that made them famous to the less obvious titles worth finding.
4 reviewed books
Suzanne Collins writes young-adult war stories about children forced to survive in public while adults edit the violence into entertainment and propaganda.
Dystopian Fiction · Science Fiction · Fantasy
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12 reviewed books
T. Kingfisher writes fantasy and horror about sensible people who notice the bad smell, the irritated animal, or the impossible room before anyone else admits that something is wrong.
Fantasy · Psychological Horror · Romantasy
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1 reviewed book
Tamika Thompson writes horror about houses where family rules, old records, and a possible ghost all point toward something people have agreed not to discuss.
Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Psychological Horror
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1 reviewed book
Tom Clancy made military procedure exciting by giving different experts one piece of the problem and asking whether they could understand it before their governments started a war.
Thriller
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1 reviewed book
Travis Baldree writes cozy fantasy about former adventurers learning to run a shop, recover from injury, feed customers, and rely on people they cannot simply order around.
Fantasy
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1 reviewed book
V. E. Schwab gives her characters one clean magical rule, then watches them discover that escaping it creates a different kind of trap.
Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Psychological Horror
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3 reviewed books
Yuval Noah Harari writes panoramic nonfiction about humanity, technology, and shared stories, offering memorable frameworks whose scale is both their appeal and their most important limitation.
Non Fiction · Popular Science
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