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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 2168 times as novella)
avg rating 4.10 — 411,408 ratings — published 2017
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 1438 times as novella)
avg rating 4.24 — 236,935 ratings — published 2018
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 1217 times as novella)
avg rating 4.23 — 189,671 ratings — published 2018
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 1147 times as novella)
avg rating 4.20 — 209,225 ratings — published 2021
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 1082 times as novella)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,162 ratings — published 2020
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
by (shelved 1068 times as novella)
avg rating 4.36 — 166,973 ratings — published 2018
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 1009 times as novella)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,862 ratings — published 2015
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
by (shelved 946 times as novella)
avg rating 3.80 — 126,345 ratings — published 2016
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 913 times as novella)
avg rating 3.82 — 375,232 ratings — published 2019
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 912 times as novella)
avg rating 4.07 — 518,630 ratings — published 2021
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
by (shelved 832 times as novella)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,350,911 ratings — published 2018
Under One Roof (The STEMinist Novellas, #1)
by (shelved 812 times as novella)
avg rating 3.64 — 223,025 ratings — published 2022
Thornhedge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 771 times as novella)
avg rating 3.91 — 71,164 ratings — published 2023
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 765 times as novella)
avg rating 4.19 — 61,864 ratings — published 2019
Destroy Me (Shatter Me, #1.5)
by (shelved 743 times as novella)
avg rating 3.93 — 389,163 ratings — published 2012
Stuck with You (The STEMinist Novellas, #2)
by (shelved 703 times as novella)
avg rating 3.56 — 178,305 ratings — published 2022
Cruel Winter with You (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 694 times as novella)
avg rating 3.68 — 215,521 ratings — published 2024
Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3)
by (shelved 690 times as novella)
avg rating 3.56 — 172,108 ratings — published 2022
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
by (shelved 687 times as novella)
avg rating 4.28 — 115,658 ratings — published 2021
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 646 times as novella)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,955,821 ratings — published 1937
Foster (Paperback)
by (shelved 631 times as novella)
avg rating 4.29 — 203,415 ratings — published 2010
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
by (shelved 628 times as novella)
avg rating 4.36 — 97,393 ratings — published 2022
Hot for Slayer (ebook)
by (shelved 626 times as novella)
avg rating 3.84 — 130,557 ratings — published 2025
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 622 times as novella)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,817,775 ratings — published 1945
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)
by (shelved 599 times as novella)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,572 ratings — published 2017
Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
by (shelved 598 times as novella)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,184 ratings — published 2019
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 594 times as novella)
avg rating 3.92 — 68,885 ratings — published 2020
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 586 times as novella)
avg rating 3.83 — 160,703 ratings — published 2022
The Exception to the Rule (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 575 times as novella)
avg rating 4.20 — 197,073 ratings — published 2024
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 564 times as novella)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,564,503 ratings — published 1915
The River Has Roots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 555 times as novella)
avg rating 3.94 — 52,896 ratings — published 2025
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 526 times as novella)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,378,409 ratings — published 1952
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 526 times as novella)
avg rating 3.76 — 42,488 ratings — published 2019
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 523 times as novella)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,795 ratings — published 2020
The Emperor's Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as novella)
avg rating 4.37 — 141,884 ratings — published 2012
Fracture Me (Shatter Me, #2.5)
by (shelved 508 times as novella)
avg rating 3.33 — 253,742 ratings — published 2013
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
by (shelved 505 times as novella)
avg rating 3.57 — 43,794 ratings — published 2021
The Ballad of Black Tom (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as novella)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,447 ratings — published 2016
Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
by (shelved 502 times as novella)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,625 ratings — published 2018
The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)
by (shelved 492 times as novella)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,366,237 ratings — published 2014
Worst Wingman Ever (Valentine's Day, #1)
by (shelved 490 times as novella)
avg rating 3.99 — 178,710 ratings — published 2024
The Lost Sisters (The Folk of the Air, #1.5)
by (shelved 489 times as novella)
avg rating 3.33 — 122,682 ratings — published 2018
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)
by (shelved 480 times as novella)
avg rating 3.96 — 18,295 ratings — published 2019
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 480 times as novella)
avg rating 4.32 — 137,133 ratings — published 2015
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
by (shelved 467 times as novella)
avg rating 4.13 — 288,256 ratings — published 2020
Two Can Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as novella)
avg rating 3.58 — 183,983 ratings — published 2024
Graveyard Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 460 times as novella)
avg rating 3.08 — 56,606 ratings — published 2024
Comfort Me with Apples (Hardcover)
by (shelved 447 times as novella)
avg rating 3.54 — 42,431 ratings — published 2021
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 424 times as novella)
avg rating 3.86 — 229,470 ratings — published 1872
In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
by (shelved 420 times as novella)
avg rating 4.15 — 38,048 ratings — published 2019
“The only person in my head is me.
Tibe is not the same. The crown has changed him, as you feared it would.
The fire is in him, the fire that will burn all the world.
And it is in your son, in the prince who will never change his blood and will never sit a throne.
The only person in my head is me.
The only person who has not changed is you. You are still the little girl in a dusty room, forgotten, unwanted, out of place. You are the queen of everything, mother to a beautiful son, wife to a king who loves you, and still you cannot find it in yourself to smile.
Still you make nothing.
Still you are empty.
The only person in your head is you.
And she is no one of any importance.
She is nothing”
― Cruel Crown
Tibe is not the same. The crown has changed him, as you feared it would.
The fire is in him, the fire that will burn all the world.
And it is in your son, in the prince who will never change his blood and will never sit a throne.
The only person in my head is me.
The only person who has not changed is you. You are still the little girl in a dusty room, forgotten, unwanted, out of place. You are the queen of everything, mother to a beautiful son, wife to a king who loves you, and still you cannot find it in yourself to smile.
Still you make nothing.
Still you are empty.
The only person in your head is you.
And she is no one of any importance.
She is nothing”
― Cruel Crown
“.. that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.”
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