333 books
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32 voters
Hard Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,609
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hard)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,191 ratings — published 1959
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as hard)
avg rating 4.54 — 369,291 ratings — published 2016
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 120,735 ratings — published 2016
Artemis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 320,529 ratings — published 2017
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 483,751 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 — 108,303 ratings — published 2014
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,039,445 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,271,991 ratings — published 2011
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 114,365 ratings — published 2002
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as hard)
avg rating 4.31 — 314,641 ratings — published 2011
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 77,984 ratings — published 2009
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
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avg rating 4.28 — 152,512 ratings — published 2013
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 361,355 ratings — published 1984
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 53,210 ratings — published 2006
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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avg rating 4.41 — 168,346 ratings — published 2010
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 307,564 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 170,086 ratings — published 2015
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
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avg rating 4.23 — 126,064 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 — 376,268 ratings — published 1971
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 591,696 ratings — published 1951
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 53,576 ratings — published 2004
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 40,742 ratings — published 1993
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 59,992 ratings — published 2019
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 71,780 ratings — published 2017
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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avg rating 4.40 — 215,465 ratings — published 2008
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,508,476 ratings — published 2003
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,289,261 ratings — published 2011
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 116,604 ratings — published 1999
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12,254 ratings — published 2001
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 182,841 ratings — published 1973
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,594 ratings — published 1954
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 61,315 ratings — published 2000
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
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avg rating 3.77 — 9,561 ratings — published 2004
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hard)
avg rating 4.11 — 177,747 ratings — published 1993
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 937,412 ratings — published 1955
Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
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avg rating 4.29 — 35,514 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 862,478 ratings — published 1946
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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avg rating 4.46 — 123,188 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 167,030 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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avg rating 4.25 — 208,417 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 359,575 ratings — published 2017
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.37 — 147,325 ratings — published 2018
The Road (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,025,826 ratings — published 2006
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
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avg rating 4.09 — 508,024 ratings — published 1968
Fate of Worlds (Fleet of Worlds #5; Ringworld #5)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,596 ratings — published 2018
Being and Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 27,608 ratings — published 1927
“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”
― Red Dragon
― Red Dragon
“Never tell a child that something it’s too hard”
― For One More Day
― For One More Day
















