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The Martian by Andy Weir

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.

Now, he’s sure he’ll …

Number9Dream by David Mitchell

David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more …

Green mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars (2))

In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of …

Myths of Renaissance Individualism (Early Modern History) by John Jeffries Martin

The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe, Wolfe

Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit …

Among the thugs by Bill Buford

De gierzwaluw by Remco Daalder

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the …

Franz Kafka's The castle by David Fishelson

Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran (neurology), Sandra Blakeslee

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of …

Cloud atlas. by David Mitchell

From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young …

The Stranger by Albert Camus (Everyman's library -- 139)

Thirty years after its original publication, The Stranger remains among the most influential books of our time. A terrifying picture …

But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer