Brantai rated King Leopold's Ghost: 5 stars
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) is a best-selling popular history book …
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Brantai rated American Gods: 4 stars
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (American Gods, #1)
Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way …
Brantai rated Foucault's Pendulum: 4 stars
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault [il ˈpɛndolo di fuˈko]) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher …
Brantai rated Shadows linger: 5 stars
Shadows linger by Glen Cook (Chronicle of the Black Company -- 2nd)
When the Black Company discovers the mute girl they have rescued and sheltered is the White Rose, they strive to …
Brantai rated Three days to never: 5 stars
Three days to never by Tim Powers
When Einstein told Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another …
Brantai rated Battle Royale: 5 stars
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Battle Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is the first novel by the Japanese author Koushun Takami. Originally completed in …
Cold Days by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, #14)
Following his death by a mystery assailant, Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, must …
1984 by George Orwell, George Orwell (duplicate)
Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a "Negative Utopia," watches over all …
Brantai rated Wool Omnibus: 5 stars
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey (duplicate)
This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to …
Brantai rated Mission Child: 3 stars
Mission Child by Maureen F. McHugh
A stunning and provocative spiritual odyssey reminiscent of the best work of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin, MISSION …
Brantai rated Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions: 5 stars
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions is a collection of short stories and poems by Neil Gaiman. It was …
Brantai rated Bitter Seeds: 5 stars
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis (The Milkweed Triptych, #1)
It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between
Raybould …
Brantai rated Desperation: 5 stars
Desperation by Stephen King
Nevada is mostly a long stretch of desert you cross on the way to somewhere else. And with someone else, …
Brantai rated Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1): 4 stars
Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) by William Gibson
Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, …
Brantai rated A Feast for Crows: 5 stars
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.
Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the …