Books like Lovestar by Andri Snær Magnason

When a dying wizard in Discworld attempts to transfer his powers to an unborn boy who turns out to be a daughter, the absurd and witty consequences unfold in Pratchett’s humor‑laden tale.

Labyrinths is Jorge Luis Borges’ celebrated volume of short stories and essays, containing classics such as “TLON, UQBAR, ORBIS TERTIUS,” “The Library of Babel,” and philosophical parables that explore language, reality, and fiction.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks follows the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were taken in 1951 without her consent and later became the first immortal human cell line, HeLa, driving major scientific breakthroughs while raising questions of ethics, race, and medical exploitation.

A lyrical saga that follows fifteen‑year‑old Holly Sykes, a psychic teenager who awakens a network of mystical forces and secret societies, while her family's lives intertwine across continents and centuries amid a hidden war between mystics and their enemies.

A sweeping narrative of diverse characters linked by trees, exploring how they learn to see the hidden world of forests and join a fight to preserve the last virgin woodlands.

When the massive Fithp spacecraft from Alpha Centauri arrives in the Solar System, humanity faces a bold and terrifying challenge: an extraterrestrial species intent on conquering Earth.

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance in the Vorkosigan Saga series by Lois McMaster Bujold.

A satirical science‑fiction critique of industrial capitalism, War with the Newts follows humanity’s hubris as intelligent giant salamanders threaten global order.

A story of power, science, and suspense in a Colorado mansion.

A science fiction sequel to Blue Remembered Earth, On The Steel Breeze follows humanity’s expansion into new worlds, tackling interstellar voyages, alien encounters, and the quest for a utopian future.

The Dark Between the Stars is a grand-scale space opera where humanity must overcome internal divides and reignite an alliance with the Ildiran Empire to confront a new, ominous threat that endangers the galaxy.

After a post‑World II alien virus granted a handful of survivors superhuman abilities, Wild Cards #2 follows these heroes and villains through the turbulent 1980s.

Star Wars: A guide to all alien species in the films, novels, comics, and video games.

A collection of new stories that conjures the style of the Golden Age of science fiction, imagining a lush, swampy Venus with strange wildlife, set when speculation about the red planet and Venus's nature still captivated readers.

Robert Macfarlane explores Britain and Ireland’s remaining wild places, journeying by foot, hand, and rope across cliff‑tops, ancient meadows, and untamed woods to ask whether true wilderness still exists here.

In a gritty, dystopian future, a hard‑boiled detective navigates murder, conspiracy, and terror within a virtual world that fractures the line between reality and crime.

When Starfleet’s Prime Directive is violated, the celebrated Enterprise crew must revisit the ruined planet Talin to confront the disastrous consequences of their actions and uncover the fate of their disgraced captain.

Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the “eel question”: Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of creature altogether? Even today, in an age of advanced science, no one has ever seen eels mating or giving birth, and we still don’t understand what drives them, after living for decades in freshwater, to swim great distances back to the ocean at the end of their lives. They remain a mystery. Drawing on a breadth of research about eels in literature, history, and modern marine biology, as well as his own experience fishing for eels with his father, Patrik Svensson crafts a mesmerizing portrait of an unusual, utterly misunderstood, and completely captivating animal. In The Book of Eels, we meet renowned historical thinkers, from Aristotle to Sigmund Freud to Rachel Carson, for whom the eel was a singular obsession. And we meet the scientists who spearheaded the search for the eel’s point of origin, including Danish marine biologist Johannes Schmidt, who led research efforts in the early twentieth century, catching thousands upon thousands of eels, in the hopes of proving their birthing grounds in the Sargasso Sea. Blending memoir and nature writing at its best, Svensson’s journey to understand the eel becomes an exploration of the human condition that delves into overarching issues about our roots and destiny, both as humans and as animals, and, ultimately, how to handle the biggest question of all: death. The result is a gripping and slippery narrative that will surprise and enchant. **A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize National Bestseller Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book One of TIME’s 100 Must Read Books of the Year One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of the Year One of Smithsonian Magazine’s 10 Best Science Books of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year A New York Times Editor’s Choice**

When a renowned Federation scientist dies, his son auctions iconic inventions—including a photon pulse cannon—drawing interest from all galactic powers. Amid a Ferengi kidnapping, Captain Picard races to protect the Enterprise and the Federation from a devastating weapon.

In a surveillance‑led society, an inspector delves into neural recordings of a dead dissident’s interrogation, uncovering a kaleidoscopic series of visions that blur the line between reality and illusion, threatening the nation’s fragile transparency.