Featured pick
5.0 / 5
Year
1996
Publisher
Bantam Spectra
ISBN
978-0553103540
Fiction
Core shelf
A Game of Thrones
by George R.R. Martin
Court politics as a blood sport, rendered with the precision of someone who’s deleted a lot of main characters without blinking.
Geek’s cut
Storytelling tuned for readers who over-analyze everything: layered themes, callbacks that reward obsessive memory, and a world that keeps expanding in your head after the last page.
Deeper dive
If Tolkien is mythic high‑level design, Martin is ruthless debugging of power structures. Every POV feels like a different log stream from the same doomed system.
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