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Great reads for anyone interested in or exploring Steampunk for the first time.
Updated March 29, 2023
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Behemoth
Westerfeld, Scott.
Paper Book
The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers. Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing...
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Darker Still Magic Most Foul Series, Book 1
Hieber, Leanna Renee.
Paper Book
A lush gothic tale that begs for reading...I couldn't put it down." --New York Times bestselling author Sarah Maclean I was obssessed. It was as if he called to me, demanding I reach out and touch the brushstrokes of color swirled onto the canvas. It was the most exquisite portrait...
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Dreadnought
Priest, Cherie.
Paper Book
Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see...
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Goliath
Westerfeld, Scott.
Paper Book
Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of...
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Leviathan
Westerfeld, Scott.
Paper Book
It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship,...
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The paper magician
Holmberg, Charlie N.
Paper Book
"Charlie is a vibrant writer with an excellent voice and great world building. I thoroughly enjoyed the Paper Magician." --Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and The Way of Kings Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having...
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Perdido Street Station
Mieville, China.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS * A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who "has reshaped modern fantasy" (The Washington Post) "[China Miéville's] fantasy novels, including a...
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Perdido Street Station
Mie ville, China.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS * A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who "has reshaped modern fantasy" (The Washington Post) "[China Miéville's] fantasy novels, including a...
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Soulless : an Alexia Tarabotti novel
Carriger, Gail.
Paper Book
Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society. Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations....
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The time machine
Wells, H. G.
Paper Book
I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own eraand the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the...
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The windup girl
Bacigalupi, Paolo
Paper Book
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a...
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