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10 best books like Hot-head (Simon Ings): The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, Chilling Effect, Dead Voices, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind, Wait Till Helen Comes, Jane of Lantern Hill, Interference, Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives, Consciousness Explained

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Author	Alix E. Harrow
ISBN	0316421995

In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke,...

The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Author	Craig Davidson
ISBN	0735274827

A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "Stand by Me" about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.

Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls--a seedy but magical, slightly...

Chilling Effect

Author	Valerie Valdes
ISBN	0062877232

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.

Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena...

Dead Voices

Author	Katherine Arden
ISBN	0593106490

Bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces.

Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian...

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind

Author	Jackson Ford
ISBN	0316519154

For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real.

Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she's got telekinetic powers—a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants...

Wait Till Helen Comes

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0380704420

Beware of Helen...Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend,...

Jane of Lantern Hill

Author

L.M. Montgomery

For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart and her mother lived with her grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead until she accidentally learned he was alive and well and living on Prince Edward Island. When Jane spends the summer at his cottage on Lantern...

Interference

Author	Sue Burke
ISBN	1250317843

The sequel to Sue Burke's sweeping SF epic debut, Semiosis, continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence.

Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they...

Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

Author

Mark Miodownik

Líquidos. Essas substâncias mágicas que fluem pelas nossas vidas.

Da revolucionária caneta de László Biro, ao querosene de Abraham Gesner, das estradas que se reparam automaticamente, passando pelo café, pelo chá ou pela água, Miodownik usa a sua enorme capacidade de divulgador...

Consciousness Explained

Author	Daniel C. Dennett
ISBN	0316180661

"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review

Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional,...

The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul

Author	Douglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN	0553345842

Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's I is a searching, probing cosmic journey of the mind that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the...

Small Gods: A Discworld Graphic Novel

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0857522965

'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.'

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: 'Hey, you!' This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial business. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods, of every shape and size, and all...

Infinite Detail

Author	Tim Maughan
ISBN	0374175411

A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.

BEFORE: In Bristol's center lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic...

Part-Time Gods

Author

Rachel Aaron

Life in the magical mess of the Detroit Free Zone is never easy. When you’re laboring under the curse of a certain prideful, overbearing dragon, it can be down right impossible.

My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I’m a Cleaner. At least, I used to be. Thanks to the supernatural bad luck that turns...