BookBlaBla is a curated list of amazing books by creative authors from around the world.

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson One man, a visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemen... read more →
Termination Shock4.2 ⭐

The Calamities by Chuck Wendig Mourning Mayne knows he’ll one day bear the duty of managing his family’s vast empire of wealth and power. But the feckless Mourning has always struggled to accept this l... read more →
The Calamities4.2 ⭐

Appetite by P. Paramita Zarina, a prep cook at a fancy New Haven restaurant, is underpaid, overworked, and might as well be invisible. The only upside? She gets to take home leftover ingredients... read more →
Appetite4.4 ⭐

On the Equality of All Things by Carlo Rovelli A radical new vision of reality from one of the great minds of our time, mapping a watershed moment in both physics and philosophy. “Carlo Rovelli is the best thinker... read more →
On the Equality of All Things4.6 ⭐

Etna by Paul Yoon Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a devastating war, Etna decides... read more →
Etna4.5 ⭐

Gardens Of The Moon by Steven Erikson Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with disco... read more →
Gardens Of The Moon4.5 ⭐

Starless and Bible Black by Steve Haddon Martin King wouldn't be on many people's "saving the world" list. Not his mates'. Not even his own. Despite his nickname, ("Neo"), he can't run up walls, dodge bullets, o... read more →
Starless and Bible Black4.6 ⭐

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan Olivia McAfee's picture-perfect life - living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher - was upended when her husband ... read more →
Mad Honey4.4 ⭐

Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program like so many Chinese American students before her, hoping to connect with... read more →
Taipei Story4.0 ⭐

Switzy by Emma Cline A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click.... read more →
Switzy4.3 ⭐

The Disappearers by Marlon James In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play, a modern masterpiece titled Fortune and Men's Eyes by Canadian playwright John Herbert. The men are ... read more →
The Disappearers4.4 ⭐

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world,... read more →
Never Let Me Go3.9 ⭐

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son ... read more →
The Reformatory4.4 ⭐

Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is fi... read more →
Exit Party4.3 ⭐

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night ... read more →
Station Eleven4.3 ⭐

We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "It" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their ... read more →
We Are All Made of Molecules4.5 ⭐

Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias Once a powerful, cold-blooded politician in Costa Rica, Seth Oreamundo is now living in exile in Washington, DC – and his younger brother Osario is to blame. Born into a ... read more →
Crocodilopolis4.4 ⭐

Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, and her husband d... read more →
Where There Was Fire3.8 ⭐

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife an... read more →
The Great Alone4.6 ⭐

Whistler by Ann Patchett When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Edd... read more →
Whistler4.4 ⭐

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick, and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death ... read more →
Elsewhere4.4 ⭐

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but from this second to the next, you’ll forget that you did. If you managed to... read more →
There Is No Antimemetics Division4.4 ⭐

Extremophile by Ian Green Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London. They pay for the beer they don't steal... read more →
Extremophile4.4 ⭐

Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows t... read more →
Rabbit Cake4.3 ⭐

The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortune-teller at a post-apoc... read more →
The World Jones Made4.2 ⭐

Ed by qntm Ed MacPherson is your college whiz-kid hyper-scientist: wormholes, time travel, heavy stellar engineering. When the aliens attack and you need a giant robot to fight them... read more →
Ed4.4 ⭐

The New People by Andrea Uptmor A newly married couple move into a flipped foreclosure, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic. A striking and intimate debut about motherhood, ... read more →
The New People4.5 ⭐

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go t... read more →
Japanese Gothic4.3 ⭐

The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy On the surface, Denny Voss's life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one. At thirty years old, he lives at home with his elderly mother and his beloved blind and deaf Saint Be... read more →
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss4.6 ⭐

Firestarter by Stephen King Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine... read more →
Firestarter4.5 ⭐

Under the Dome by Stephen King On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force fiel... read more →
Under the Dome4.4 ⭐

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity sp... read more →
Ready Player One4.6 ⭐

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCa... read more →
Into the Wild4.5 ⭐

Tremendous Things by Susin Nielsen We all have moments that define us. For the comically clueless Wilbur, his moment happened on the first day of middle school, when someone shared his private letter with ... read more →
Tremendous Things4.7 ⭐

I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's awesome masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old and obscenely ... read more →
I Will Fear No Evil4.2 ⭐

Game On by Navessa Allen I hate that woman. Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father, and not because he wants to meet the man. No, he wants to destroy him. And he’ll manipulate wh... read more →
Game On4.3 ⭐

Kin by Tayari Jones Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly ... read more →
Kin4.4 ⭐

A Stage Set for Villains by Shannon J. Spann The gods are dead. All that’s left are the Players... The performers of the Playhouse are as worshipped as they are feared, their enchanting shows bending hearts, mind... read more →
A Stage Set for Villains4.4 ⭐

Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her thr... read more →
Enormous Wings4.2 ⭐

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write lette... read more →
The Correspondent4.5 ⭐

The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren’t for the tragedies of his life: th... read more →
The Road to Tender Hearts4.4 ⭐

Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling... read more →
Taiwan Travelogue4.4 ⭐

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, ... read more →
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time4.5 ⭐

We Dance Upon Demons by Vaishnavi Patel As a reproductive health care worker in Chicago, Nisha is barely staying afloat in the ocean of abortion bans, screaming protestors, and her own all-consuming depression.... read more →
We Dance Upon Demons4.8 ⭐

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan ... read more →
Seveneves4.2 ⭐

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It’s the day he learned about the Archipelago—a cluster of unm... read more →
Impossible Creatures4.5 ⭐

The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend must come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow—to walk out into the frozen wa... read more →
The Last Contract of Isako4.5 ⭐

Something Deadly on Desert Drive by Kris Bock Starting over at fifty might be hard, but it shouldn’t be deadly… Still recovering from an injury that might have permanently derailed her career as an international w... read more →
Something Deadly on Desert Drive4.2 ⭐

Butter by Asako Yuzuki There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of... read more →
Butter3.9 ⭐

Honey by Imani Thompson Yrsa is bored: bored with her PhD program, her entitled students, and the never-ending pages of racial violence and feminist theory she has to read. But most of all, she’... read more →
Honey3.7 ⭐

Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing th... read more →
Trouble with Lichen4.4 ⭐

When the Storm Passes by Manel Loureiro In the summer, the Isle of Ons is a vacation paradise. But in the winter, when nature is unpredictable and supply boats are rare, Ons is far less inviting. Yet the off... read more →
When the Storm Passes4.0 ⭐

No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen Twelve-and-three-quarter-year-old Felix Knutsson has a knack for trivia. His favorite game show is Who What Where When; he even named his gerbil after the host. Felix's m... read more →
No Fixed Address4.6 ⭐

The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since, at ten, they fell through the river ice and dr... read more →
The Cure for Drowning4.4 ⭐

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is dete... read more →
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo4.5 ⭐

Une unique lueur by Fred Vargas - Vous avez regardé les photos, Danglard ? De la scène du crime ? Demanda Adamsberg. - Cela va de soi. - Et donc ? Cela vous dit quelque chose ? Parce qu’à moi, oui. -... read more →
Une unique lueur4.5 ⭐

Son of Nobody by Yann Martel Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. T... read more →
Son of Nobody4.0 ⭐

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable... read more →
The Director4.1 ⭐

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of i... read more →
Between Two Fires4.5 ⭐

About to Fall Apart by Ashley Hickson-Lovence This is the story of one man's weekend, a weekend in which everything could change These lines could change everything. He sips more of his tinny. Imagines a new lif... read more →
About to Fall Apart4.4 ⭐