Protagonists playing the long game

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The hero doesn't punch their way out — they spend hundreds of pages quietly setting things up. Books where the payoff lands because you saw the patience that ma

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The 8 books on this stack

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  • James Islington 2023 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    You can't put it down · someone passing as someone they're not

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    Vis, the adopted son of Magnus Quintus Ulcisor, a prominent senator within the Hierarchy, is trained to enter the famed Catenan Academy to help Ulciscor learn what the hidden agenda is of the remote…

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  • Liu Cixin 2008 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    The truth comes out bit by bit · you'll keep turning it over for days

    It shares this with 2 more books on this stack

    An investigation into a spate of apparent suicides amongst the world's top scientists leads to a mysterious online game set in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction…

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  • Isaac Asimov 1951 3 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas · it changes how you see things

    It shares this with 1 more book on this stack

    Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand…

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  • Stephen King 1925 3 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    One more chapter, then another · travelling in time

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history?

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  • Scott Lynch 2001 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Funny, and it bites · a plan for the big heist

    It shares this with 1 more book on this stack

    In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters.

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  • Brandon Sanderson 2001 2 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    It's hiding a secret · a world to get lost in

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    An epic fantasy set in a world where the Dark Lord has gained dominion over the world.

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