Isaac Asimov 1953
- What it is
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A crime, and the clues to solve it yourself · full of big ideas
- Genre
- Science fiction Mystery Crime
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Nothing is quite what it seems · no clean hands here
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A mystery you want to solve · no clean hands here
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It grabs you with a mystery and cerebral
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Nothing is quite what it seems · you'll finish it in two nights
Earthlight
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You'll keep turning it over for days · spies, moles and state secrets
The devotion of suspect X
Keigo Higashino 2011
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993
It messes with your head · you can't put it down
Annihilation
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Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
Prestige
Christopher Priest 1995
You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu 2008
Nothing is quite what it seems · meeting beings from another world
Red Moon
Kim Stanley Robinson 2018
It messes with your head · you can't put it down
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch 2016
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
Recursion
Blake Crouch 2019
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
3 books
Whodunit and cerebral
Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett 2024
It messes with your head · a cozy mystery, no gore
The Murder at the Vicarage
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You'll keep turning it over for days · a cozy mystery, no gore
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco 2003
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
8 books · Alike in just one
Only it grabs you with a mystery
American elsewhere
Robert Jackson Bennett 2012
It grabs you with a mystery · it's hiding a secret
Eversion
Alastair Reynolds 2022
It grabs you with a mystery · it's hiding a secret
Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson 2020
A mystery you want to solve · fierce and defiant
The Blackhouse
Peter May 2012
It grabs you with a mystery · it stays with you
The Invisible Guardian
Dolores Redondo 2013
A mystery you want to solve · it won't tell you everything at once
A Marvellous Light
Freya Marske 2021
A mystery you want to solve · love and laughs in equal parts
The Silence of the White City
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi 2013
A mystery you want to solve · it'll scare you
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson 2010
A mystery you want to solve · you won't want to come back
5 books · Alike in just one
Only whodunit
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters 1975
In common with yours: whodunit · odd and endearing
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman 2020
In common with yours: whodunit · odd and endearing
The Marlow Murder Club (The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries, Book 1)
Robert Thorogood 2021
You need to know how it ends · odd and endearing
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Lilian Jackson Braun 1986
In common with yours: whodunit · odd and endearing
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto 2023
In common with yours: whodunit · comforting, like coming home
13 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
Hyperion
Dan Simmons 1991
A reader shelved it with yours in Science fiction where AIs live among us as people
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz 2017
A reader shelved it with yours in Science fiction where AIs live among us as people
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie 2013
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Player of Games
Iain Banks 1988
A reader shelved it with yours in Science fiction where AIs live among us as people
Roadside Picnic
Strugatsky 1978
It messes with your head · it's hiding a secret
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
You'll keep turning it over for days · tender and sad at once
Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin 2008
You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
Sphere
Michael Crichton 1987
You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
Qualityland
Marc-Uwe Kling 2017
Readers put them together in Science fiction where AIs live among us as people
The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov 1955
Full of big ideas · a big story that sweeps you along
Stranger in a strange land
Robert A. Heinlein 1961
Full of big ideas · nobody is entirely good
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang 2010
A reader shelved it with yours in Science fiction where AIs live among us as people
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