270 books
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207 voters
Hard Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,707
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hard)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,982 ratings — published 1959
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,206,103 ratings — published 2021
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
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avg rating 4.54 — 404,199 ratings — published 2016
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hard)
avg rating 3.68 — 330,881 ratings — published 2017
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as hard)
avg rating 4.26 — 127,104 ratings — published 2016
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,299,647 ratings — published 2011
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 501,042 ratings — published 2006
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 110,429 ratings — published 2014
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 115,589 ratings — published 2002
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 366,684 ratings — published 1984
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 322,246 ratings — published 2011
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 599,719 ratings — published 1951
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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avg rating 4.40 — 174,428 ratings — published 2010
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 78,357 ratings — published 2009
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
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avg rating 4.28 — 155,975 ratings — published 2013
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 117,175 ratings — published 1999
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 54,872 ratings — published 2006
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 74,596 ratings — published 2017
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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avg rating 4.40 — 222,897 ratings — published 2008
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 317,244 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 177,825 ratings — published 2015
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
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avg rating 4.23 — 128,982 ratings — published 2014
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 380,323 ratings — published 1971
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,307,959 ratings — published 2011
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 54,069 ratings — published 2004
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,667 ratings — published 1954
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 41,085 ratings — published 1993
Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)
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avg rating 4.07 — 80,755 ratings — published 1986
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 63,081 ratings — published 2019
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,534,753 ratings — published 2003
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 66,998 ratings — published 1992
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12,405 ratings — published 2001
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 185,256 ratings — published 1973
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 62,084 ratings — published 2000
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
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avg rating 3.77 — 9,640 ratings — published 2004
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 397,413 ratings — published 1980
Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)
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avg rating 4.16 — 62,064 ratings — published 1993
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 180,324 ratings — published 1993
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 951,664 ratings — published 1955
Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
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avg rating 4.28 — 37,197 ratings — published 2020
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 196,909 ratings — published 1929
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 888,397 ratings — published 1946
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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avg rating 4.46 — 128,227 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 174,731 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 376,189 ratings — published 2017
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.36 — 153,712 ratings — published 2018
“It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.”
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