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

A Life in Lyrics by Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury was one of the greatest showmen of the twentieth century. With his unparalleled voice and searing on-stage energy, he was a great pretender, a killer quee... read more →
A Life in Lyrics4.7 ⭐

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It wa... read more →
Eros the Bittersweet4.5 ⭐

Animal Farm by George Orwell This is a classic tale of humanity awash in totalitarianism. A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they ... read more →
Animal Farm4.8 ⭐

Monster of a Land by Lauren Hough Lauren Hough has always been haunted by the road trips she never got to take: no money, no vacation days, no car capable of making the trip. So, upon finally finding hers... read more →
Monster of a Land4.6 ⭐

Korean Messiah by Jonathan Cheng For nearly eight decades, North Korea has marched defiantly to its own beat, shaking off its Soviet and Chinese sponsors to emerge as the world’s most enigmatic nation—a ... read more →
Korean Messiah4.5 ⭐

Blacktail by Scott Hawkins The wolf Blacktail is faithful to his Forest God, but in these times, faith is not enough. His world is besieged by men. Soon his territory will be overrun, and then ther... read more →
Blacktail4.5 ⭐

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman Earth has been transformed into the set of the galaxy’s most watched game show: Dungeon Crawler World, a nightmarish, multilevel, video game–like dungeon filled with trap... read more →
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook4.6 ⭐

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but eve... read more →
The Library at Mount Char4.4 ⭐

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman Each team of crawlers is given a task: find and capture six of these beasts. The captured monsters will be turned into cards. Cards that can be summoned into battle again... read more →
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride4.8 ⭐

Redshirts by John Scalzi Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with... read more →
Redshirts4.2 ⭐

American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and chil... read more →
American Hagwon4.4 ⭐

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea—or a cutting remark. She minds her own bus... read more →
Mad Mabel4.6 ⭐

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 ⭐