Books to read if you want to believe

Updated March 20, 2026
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It Devours!
Fink, Joseph
Paper Book
A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where cosmic horror, ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale... "Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I...

It Devours follows a skeptical scientist and a devout lab assistant in Night Vale as they clash—and ultimately team up—to stop a mysterious, faith-fueled sinkhole from literally consuming their town.

The Ministry of Time
Bradley, Kaliane.
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL * WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE<...

A civil servant helps supervise time‑displaced historical figures in modern Britain, sparking political intrigue and an unexpected love story.

The dark forest
Liu, Cixin
Paper Book
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times * "War...

Sequel/second book in trilogy popular on Netflix Three Body Problem

Humanity confronts an existential cosmic threat after learning that revealing one’s existence in the universe invites annihilation.

Woman on the edge of time
Piercy, Marge.
Paper Book

A marginalized woman glimpses a possible utopian future, challenging the injustices of her present and her own sanity.

Beautyland
Bertino, Marie-Helene
Paper Book
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Time, Elle, The Boston Globe, Literary Hub, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Goodreads, WBEZ Chicago, Book Riot, The Christian Science Monitor, Mother...
The great transition
Fuller Googins, Nick
Paper Book
This richly imaginative, immersive, and "electrifyingly relevant" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future--perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing...
The down days : a novel
Hugo, Ilze
Paper Book
In the vein of The Book of M comes a fast-paced, character-driven literary apocalyptic novel that explores life, love, and loss in a post-truth society. In the aftermath of a deadly outbreak--reminiscent of the 1962 event of mass hysteria that was the Tanganyika...
The Book Of Elsewhere
Reeves, Keanu.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An "action-packed [and] profoundly stylish" (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books "[...
VAmpire hunter D Omnibus 1
Kikuchi, Hideyuki.
Paper Book
The Vampire Hunter D Omnibus collects the first three novels in author Hideyuki Kikuchi's adventure horror series: Vampire Hunter D, Raiser of Gales, and Demon Deathchase. Illustrated by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, this book is only the beginning of a legend!
Sea of Tranquility
Mandel, Emily St. John
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years...
Meru
Divya, S. B.
Paper Book
One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in an epic space opera about aspiration, compassion, and redemption by Hugo and Nebula Award finalist S. B. Divya. For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called...
Best of World SF: 2
Tidhar, Lavie/Tidhar, Lavie
Paper Book
Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. The second annual instalment to the 'rare and wonderful' (The Times) The Best of World SF Volume 1, this collection of twenty-nine stories, including eight original...
The hidden girl and other stories
Liu, Ken
Paper Book
Includes stories featured in Pantheon--now an animated series on AMC+ "I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I'm reading Ken Liu's stories, I feel like I'm reading a once-in-a-generation talent. I'm in awe." --Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author...
A stroke of the pen : the lost stories
Pratchett, Terry
Paper Book
"If you read just one of Pratchett's books, you'll want to read everything he wrote. That now includes A Stroke of the Pen." -- Washington Post A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry...
Extinction
Preston, Douglas
Paper Book
With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.
How High We Go in the Dark
Nagamatsu, Sequoia.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK * FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE "Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits." --...

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