Books like

Books like Ender's Game

12 books with a reading profile close to Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 Journey to the Center of the Earth

    Journey to the Center of the Earth

    by Jules Verne

    entertainment, narrative

    Professor Otto Lidenbrock, a stern German mineralogist, discovers a coded runic manuscript claiming a volcanic passage leads to the terrestrial core.

  2. 2 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    by Jules Verne

    entertainment, narrative

    Marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and Canadian harpooner Ned Land join an American expedition to hunt a suspected sea monster disrupting global shipping.

  3. 3 The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    by H.G. Wells

    narrative, science fiction

    Griffin, a brilliant but mentally unstable scientist, arrives at a quiet village wrapped in bandages and hiding behind dark spectacles.

  4. 4 Nightfall

    Nightfall

    by Isaac Asimov

    narrative, science fiction

    On the planet Kalgash, six suns provide perpetual daylight, ensuring that the concept of darkness is unknown to its inhabitants.

  5. 5 Ender's Game Alive

    Ender's Game Alive

    by Orson Scott Card, Kirby Heyborne

    entertainment, narrative

    Ender’s Game Alive is a full-cast audio dramatization that depicts the military recruitment and training of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin.

  6. 6 Saga, Volume 5

    Saga, Volume 5

    by Brian K. Vaughan

    entertainment, narrative

    In this installment, the fugitive family is fractured as Alana and Marko live separately on the planet Gardenia.

  7. 7 All Our Wrong Todays

    All Our Wrong Todays

    by Elan Mastai

    entertainment, narrative

    In 2016, Tom Barren lives in a techno-utopian version of Earth powered by an infinite energy engine created in 1965.

  8. 8 Friday

    Friday

    by Robert A. Heinlein

    entertainment, narrative

    Friday follows the life of Friday Jones, an "artificial person" engineered with enhanced speed, intelligence, and physical durability.

  9. 9 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl

    Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl

    by Brian K. Vaughan

    entertainment, narrative

    Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, remain the only mammals with a Y chromosome left on Earth after a global plague.

  10. 10 The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    by Len Jenkin, Herbert George Wells

    narrative, science fiction

    In this stage adaptation of the H.G.

  11. 11 Planet of the Apes

    Planet of the Apes

    by Pierre Boulle

    narrative, science fiction

    Journalist Ulysse Mérou travels to the star Betelgeuse with a small crew and lands on a world where the biological roles of primates and humans are reversed.

  12. 12 All-Star Superman, Vol. 1

    All-Star Superman, Vol. 1

    by Grant Morrison

    entertainment, narrative

    The story begins when Superman rescues a scientific crew from a solar mission gone wrong, only to discover that the massive infusion of yellow sun radiation has triggered a fatal cellular breakdown in his body.

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