Interesting Steampunk Reads for You

Great reads for anyone interested in or exploring Steampunk for the first time.

Updated April 24, 2023
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Goliath
Westerfeld, Scott.
Audiobook
Best-selling author Scott Westerfeld's novels include the Uglies series and the Midnighters trilogy. In Goliath, Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I and reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria. Their objectives, however, are complicated by the fact...
Leviathan
Westerfeld, Scott.
Paper Book
The first novel in a masterful trilogy about World War I with a steampunk twist by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld. It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and...
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...
Perdido Street Station New Crobuzon Series, Book
Miéville, Chin
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...
Soulless
Carriger, Gail
Ebook
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....
The time machine
Wells, H. G.
Paper Book
Wells's genre-defining novel of time travel When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he...

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