Fiction, fantasy, general Books to Read Free Online

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Fiction, fantasy, general

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All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders, Laurent Queyssi

2016 ★ 3.6

Last Call

Tim Powers

1992 ★ 4.3

Galveston

Sean Stewart

2000

Among Others

Jo Walton

2011 ★ 3.9

A stranger in Olondria

Sofia Samatar

2012 ★ 3.2

The falling woman

Pat Murphy

1987

Ombria in shadow

Patricia A. McKillip

2002

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

2015 ★ 4.2

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

2019 ★ 4.2

The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

2015 ★ 4.3

Song of Kali

Dan Simmons

1985 ★ 4.4

The Obelisk Gate

N. K. Jemisin

2016 ★ 4.4

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

1937 ★ 4.0

The Prestige

Christopher Priest

1997 ★ 3.6

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

1985 ★ 4.0

Tender Morsels

Margo Lanagan, Michael Page Anne Flosnik

2008

Tom's Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce

1958 ★ 4.3

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell

2014 ★ 3.9

Paladin of Souls

Lois McMaster Bujold

2003 ★ 4.1

Mythago Wood

Robert Holdstock

1984 ★ 3.7

Ysabel

Guy Gavriel Kay

2007 ★ 3.6

Who Fears Death

Nnedi Okorafor

2010 ★ 3.8

The Hero and the Crown

Robin McKinley

1984 ★ 4.1

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Patricia A. McKillip

1975 ★ 4.0

Watership Down

Richard Adams

1973 ★ 4.2

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

1964 ★ 4.1

Le avventure di Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi

1883 ★ 3.9

Prince Caspian

C. S. Lewis

1956 ★ 3.9

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

1872 ★ 4.0

Der Proceß

Franz Kafka

1925 ★ 4.2

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