Amazon offer you the biggest selection of online literature you could possibly imagine. Can't find it in the shops? You'll find it online. And often at a very reasonably discounted price. Stop wasting time searching through shelf after shelf in your local book store, simply click and choose  then sit back and wait for your brand new book to be delivered right to your doorstep!

Love to read? We have the best books for everyone
browse our selection of millenium must-haves!
The greatest literature of the 20th century.
By the greatest writers of the 20th century

Books for the nineties! Don't miss any of these outstanding reads.
A new book added each day so check back regularly

James Herbert remains one of this centuries most outstanding British science fiction/horror authors. Along with the unforgettable Fluke, 48 is one of the writer's best to date, a deeply researched action novel that consideres what life may have been like had the outcome of World War II been different. The story follows the tribulations of Hoke, an American pilot stranded in armageddon-ravaged London after Hitler, in a final act of desperate vengeance, has unleashed the Blood Death, a biological weapon that has single handedly wiped out much of the population of the world. Hoke must escape the remnants of the occupying Nazis, fleeing for his life across a London that could so easily have existed and which only Herbert can describe in such breathtaking detail. An absolute classic of 20th century literature that should adorn every serious sci-fi reader's bookshelf.

Write your own review of this book

Earth - the future, in which mankind has been overun by a superior race known as the Qax. Immortality drugs have been confiscated, the human spirit crushed and the world turned into a vast factory for producing alien foodstuffs.
Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel, it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax, who are sure to follow them. For these men and women are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail. And at the end of infinity they may be about to find it.
Stephen Baxter is one of the few modern science fiction writers whose concepts in outrageously implausible, yet highly believable plotlines are matched only by their unnerving knowledge of all things scientific. Arthur C Clarke has hailed him the Issac Asimov of his generation and this astounding novel may be enough to pursuade you he is right.

Write your own review of this book

For outstanding British literature you only need look so far as James Herbert. This, one of his most famous and sublimely written novels, follows the life of 'Fluke', a confused and troubled young mongrel dog whose previous life as a man has returned to haunt him. Fluke's hunt for the truth behind his apparent murder as a man takes him on a long and dangerous journey in which he makes both friends and enemies, discovers the reality behind his new canine identity and learns that men and animals are not so different as both races would like to believe. Herbert's recounting of the dog's life from wide-eyed pup to enlightened adult is as exciting as it is dry, inflected throughout with great humour and a twisting turning plot that will entertain even the most jaded reader. An delightful book.

Write your own review of this book

It is unlikely that you do not know who Arthur C Clarke is, particularly if you're a fan of science fiction. However, you may not be aware that his greatest literary work was not, as most people believe, 2001 A Space Odyssey, but this, one of his earliest books, the multi-award-winning 'Rendezvous with Rama'.
Rama is a mind blowing epic split into over four different novels. This, the first of the series, tells the simple yet incredible story of Earth's first contact with intelligence from another world. Rama, a vast drifting cylindrical city in space, has entered the solar system and seems set on a collision course with the sun. For a fleeting time the craft will pass within touching distance of a spacebound working vessel, Endeavour, allowing for a detailed exploration of the massive star-city's insides. So follows mankind's greatest and most intriguing journey into one of the most awe-inspiring and alien environments imaginable.
From the first chapter to the last you will not be able to stop reading. Every paragraph brings a new surprise, the end of each chapter leaves you desperate for answers. Quite possibly one of the greatest novels written this century, Rama should be an essential read for anyone who loves books.

Write your own review of this book

Stanley Kubrick wrote to Arthur C Clarke in the spring of 1964 and asked if he had any interesting ideas that might possibly be turned into a screenplay. The now legendary '2001 - A Space Odyssey' was Clarke's answer, a masterful space opera and probably one of the greatest adventures written this century. The story is set in a future of unspecified date. Man has just begun to explore space and the possibilities of his increasing technology. On the moon an enigma has been discovered, a strange monolith buried beneath the ground which, when uncovered, sends a strange signal out across the solar system. A deep space expedition so secret that even the participants are unaware of its true nature is mounted to investigate the signal's target. But before the crew of Discovery can reach their destination and learn the truth behind their mission, things begin to go horribly wrong. Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, 2001 A Space Odyssey is beyond doubt a true work of genius, compulsive, prophetic and influential. An institution in its own right.

Write your own review of this book

Admired for his boundless imagination and phrophetic ideas, both of which were way beyond their time, H G Wells is one of the centuries most influential science fiction writers. The War of the Worlds, a gripping tale of Earth's battle with extra terrestrial invaders, is the original mars-attacks story. From Wells' concept sprung an entire genre and endless space invasion stories. The book follows the experiences of one man caught in the middle of the Martian attack, his exploits across vividly described English countryside and his endeavours to survive. The modern reader may find some of the vocabulary a little dated and the lack of technology in any form throughout the book (other than that of the Martian war machine) can also be distracting, but for the most part the unsophistication of Well's world is both charming and thought-provoking; the prose, although written in another era, is more enduring than outdated. For the science fiction fan who has become jaded with the complexity and extravagance of contemporary sci-fi, The War of the Worlds is a perfect read. The story is simple yet riveting, the theme of man's place in the universe is compelling as ever. A real classic.

Write your own review of this book

Dean R Koontz has made a significant name for himself by producing some of horror's most compelling literature. Midnight is one of his best, a black and chilling monster story set in a town beset by the tyrranical imaginings of an insane and murderous genetic scientist, Shaddack. Fooled with promises of a better life and a higher existence the town's people of Moonlight Cove, under the watchful presence of police chief Loman Watkins, agree to test Shaddack's powerful new drug, which he claims will transform them from human to super-human, splicing their organic genes with nanoscopic computer chips. But things begin to go wrong when a number of mysterious murders and the deaths of the subsequent investigating FBI agents warrant the infiltration of undercover investigator Sam Booker. When he arrives in Moonlight Cove, expecting the worst, he finds himself in a waking nightmare from which he and the remaining inhabitants of the town must try to escape. One of Koontz's most involved and well thought out titles Midnight is a book that should be read with the light well and truly on!

Send your own review of this book

When the star-freighter Nostromo is interupted during its long journey back to Earth by a strange distress signal eminating from a nearby alien world, the ship's computer is forced to wake the seven hybernating crewmembers onboard from hypersleep. They descend to the planet surface to investigate the source of the signal and there find a nightmare of unprecedented proportions waiting for them. The alien, a perfect killing machine and unstoppable predator that lives only to survive.
A dark and enigmatic book based on the screenplay of the same name, Alien is a masterpiece of its genre and remains unrivalled to this day.

Send your own review of this book

When Arthur Dent's home is demolished to make way for a bypass he is understandably upset. When, just minutes later, his planet is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass it seems more than he can cope with. Luckily for Arthur his best friend, Ford Prefect, is not an out of work actor after all but an alien from a planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse who is hitching his way across the Universe as a roving reporter for the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and knows how to get off-world at short notice. This, the first and best in the Hitch Hiker series, is Adams best work to date and remains as irrepressibly funny today as it was when first released. Adams has the ability to twist the plot in so many directions it virtually disappears altogether while keeping the reader's undivided attention and holding together compelling characterisations. A funnier book simply doesn't exist.

Send your own review of this book

A Hugo and Nebula award winner, Dune is perhaps the most fantastic science fiction novel ever written, and certainly the most original. Arrakis is a sweeping desert world that finds itself the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the 'spice-of-spices'. Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and also grants psychic powers and longevity so whoever controls it weilds great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a superhuman - he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the centre of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium. There is no other story to match the integrity and power of Herbert's magnum opus, it stands in a class all of its own. If you consider yourself a science fiction follower you should make this book your mecca.

Write your own review of this book

Carnebie medal and Guardian award winner, Watership Down is the stunning tale of life as a rabbit in rural England. When the prophetic Fiver warns of impending doom for the warren, Hazel decides to gather his friends and leave, even though the warren leader, the Threahrah, has forbidden him to do so. So ensues a trek into the dangerous and forbidding wilderness of the downs where the thousand enemies of the rabbit live to hunt him down and the harsh terrain endeavours to starve, freeze or trap him. If they are to survive the homeless rabbits must settle a new warren and find does, but doing so proves harder than they expect, particularly when they run across the brutal General Woundwort and his savage Owsla of determined followers. This beautifully written and intensely moving story is the work of an extraordinary imagination and a classic of animal literature.

Write your own review of this book

If there is a book you love and you would like to write a review
to be placed in this section of the bookstore, please let us know.
We are always happy to accept suggestions.

Is there a book you think we should add to this hall of fame?
If so let us know via the contact page.