What are the most recommended books matching 'more cerebral than action packed'?
We found 47 book recommendations
What do readers say about Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore?
peppy and funny plain and simple codes hidden in books engaging and inventiveThe New York Times Bestseller
A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Ja... More details on Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
LOST IN THE SHADOWS of the shelves, I almost fall off the ladder. I am exactly halfway up. The floor of the bookstore is far below me, the surface of a planet I’ve left behind. The tops of the shelves...
See 240 Book Recommendations like Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
What do readers say about The Sins of the Fathers?
clean and flows raw and gritty more cerebral than action-packed pulp fiction styleThe pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search o... More details on The Sins of the Fathers
He was a big man, about my height with a little more flesh on his heavy frame. His eyebrows, arched and prominent, were still black. The hair on his head was iron gray, combed straight back, giving hi...
See 195 Book Recommendations like The Sins of the Fathers
What do readers say about Dark Matter?
crisp and fresh clear, concise, narrative fast-paced, thrilling plot a mind bending thrillerA mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy.
"Are you happy with your life?"
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he awake... More details on Dark Matter
No one tells you it’s all about to change, to be taken away. There’s no proximity alert, no indication that you’re standing on the precipice. And maybe that’s what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just wh...
See 3560 Book Recommendations like Dark Matter
What do readers say about Recursion?
genre-bending at its best well paced and entertaining ungrammatical and lazy plot-heavy and action-packedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines trilogy comes a relentless thriller about time, identity, and memory-his most mind-boggling, irresistible work to date, and the inspiration for Shondaland's ... More details on Recursion
Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the main entrance of the Poe Building, an Art Deco tower glowing white in the illumination of its exterior sconces. He climbs out of his Crown Vic, rushes...
See 2218 Book Recommendations like Recursion
What do readers say about The Fifth Season?
ashfall and climate change epic dystopian fantasy broken earth trilogy subtle and well-designedAt the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)
This is the way the world ends. . .f... More details on The Fifth Season
For the past ten years you’ve lived as ordinary a life as possible. You came to Tirimo from elsewhere; the townsfolk don’t really care where or why. Since you were obviously well educated, you became ...
See 4422 Book Recommendations like The Fifth Season
What do readers say about A Wizard of Earthsea?
pure beauty magical adventure rich language and world building psychological novelOriginally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved Earthsea titles. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and kn... More details on A Wizard of Earthsea
The Island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. From the towns in its high valleys and the ports on its dark narrow...
See 3377 Book Recommendations like A Wizard of Earthsea
What do readers say about Infinite Jest?
a grand puzzle america's obsession with addiction real and insightful hipster bro bookA gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential... More details on Infinite Jest
3 E.T.A. is laid out as a cardioid, with the four main inward-facing bldgs. convexly rounded at the back and sides to yield a cardioid's curve, with the tennis courts and pavilions at the center and t...
See 2181 Book Recommendations like Infinite Jest
What do readers say about Exhalation?
deeply thought provoking scifi creative, thought-provoking stories calm and clear highly entertaining and thought-provokingNATIONAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories-two published for the very first time-all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others... More details on Exhalation
It has long been said that air (which others call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I engrave these words to describe how I came to understand the true source of life and...
See 1619 Book Recommendations like Exhalation
What do readers say about The Dispossessed?
non-linear plot development her ostensible masterpiece great thought-provoking book lack of resources"One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." - Stephen King
From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust - and the man who risks eve... More details on The Dispossessed
There are eleven babies in the room, most of them cooped up in large, padded pen-cots in pairs or trios, and settling down, with commotion and elocution, into their naps. The two eldest remain at larg...
See 1288 Book Recommendations like The Dispossessed
What do readers say about The Day of the Jackal?
well-researched and well-written fast paced political thriller lame plot device a tense, thrillerTHE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREDERICK FORSYTH
"The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries."-The New York Ti... More details on The Day of the Jackal
It is cold at six-forty in the morning of a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. At that hour on 11th March 1963, in the main courtyard of the ...
See 436 Book Recommendations like The Day of the Jackal
Please Help Us Improve
Lost? We also have a list of your Recent Book Views
Are You An Author?
When you click the Amazon link and make a purchase, we may receive a small commision, at no cost to you.