“What are the Best Steampunk Book?” We looked at 270 different titles, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that question!
Take a break from operating your geared metallic dirigible and pick up one of the 270 different steampunk books we aggregated and ranked! The top 36 titles, all appearing on 4 or more lists, are ranked below with images, descriptions, and links. The remaining titles, as well as the sources we used, can be found at the bottom of the page.
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The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as “a major work of art” by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters and a kaleidoscopic plot, Against the Day confronts a world of impending disaster, unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places and still manages to be hilarious, moving, profound, and so much more.
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Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology assembles original stories by some of the genre’s foremost writers. Edited by Nick Gevers, this collection includes brand new stories by Stephen Baxter, Eric Brown, Paul Di Filippo, Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Ian R. MacLeod, Michael Moorcock, Robert Reed, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Jeff VanderMeer and more.
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JUST WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE TIME MACHINE RETURNED? Having acquired a device for themselves, the brutish Morlocks return from the desolate far future to Victorian England to cause mayhem and disruption. But the mythical heroes of Old England have also returned, in the hour of the country’s greatest need, to stand between England and her total destruction.
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“Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity. Within their halls, the ruling aristocratic houses develop scientific marvels, foster trade alliances, and maintain fleets of airships to keep the peace.
Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship Predator. Loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is damaged in combat, Grimm joins a team of Albion agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring his ship.
And as Grimm undertakes this task, he learns that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanity’s ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake. . . “
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“When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has recently been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was the real target of the attack. For Molly is a special little girl, and she carries a secret that marks her out for destruction by enemies of the state.
Oliver Brooks has led a sheltered existence in the backwater home of his merchant uncle. But when he is framed for his only relative’s murder he is forced to flee for his life, accompanied by an agent of the mysterious Court of the Air. Chased across the country, Oliver finds himself in the company of thieves, outlaws and spies, and gradually learns more about the secret that has blighted his life.
Soon Molly and Oliver will find themselves battling a grave threat to civilization, an ancient power thought to have been quelled millennia ago. Their enemies are ruthless and myriad, but the two orphans are also aided by indomitable friends in this endlessly inventive tale full of drama, intrigue, and adventure.”
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Mark Hodder’s second Burton & Swinburne steampunk adventure, following the acclaimed The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection–black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons. Can the king’s agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play?
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“The world is still only half-made. Between the wild shores of uncreation, and the ancient lands of the East lies the vast expanse of the West—young, chaotic, magnificent, war-torn.
Thirty years ago, the Red Republic fought to remake the West—fought gloriously, and failed. The world that now exists has been carved out amid a war between two rival factions: the Line, enslaving the world with industry, and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence. The Republic is now history, and the last of its generals sits forgotten and nameless in a madhouse on the edge of creation. But locked in his memories is a secret that could change the West forever, and the world’s warring powers would do anything to take it from him.
Now Liv Alverhuysen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels west, hoping to heal the general’s shattered mind. John Creedmoor, reluctant Agent of the Gun and would-be gentleman of leisure, travels west, too, looking to steal the secret or die trying. And the servants of the Line are on the march.”
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Oswald Bastable visits an alternate 1904. Here, he discovers that most of the Western world has been devastated by a short, yet horrific, war fought with futuristic devices and biological weapons. An Afro-American Black Attila is conquering the remnants of the Western nations, destroyed by the wars, in an attempt to bring civilization and social order.
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“Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage—and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon.
For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remades live as equals to humans, Cactae, and Cray. Yet no one may ever leave.
Lonely and embittered in her captivity, Bellis knows that to show dissent is a death sentence. Instead, she must furtively seek information about Armada’s agenda. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetected miles below the waters—terrifying entities with a singular, chilling mission. . .”
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“It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.
Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London.”
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“When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London’s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks, and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.
Kidnapped by a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform into another person. What’s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa’s power for his own.
Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by—and torn between—two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm’s length…everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world…and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.”
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“It starts with a simple note. Roger Bascombe regretfully wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. Determined to find out why, Miss Temple takes the first step in a journey that will propel her into a dizzyingly seductive, utterly shocking world beyond her imagining.
Nothing could have prepared Miss Temple for the things she would find behind the closed doors of forbidding Harschmort Manor: men and women in provocative disguise, acts of licentiousness and violence, heroism and awakening. But she will also find two allies: Cardinal Chang, a brutal assassin with the heart of a poet, and a royal doctor named Svenson, at once fumbling and heroic—both of whom, like her, lost someone at Harschmort Manor.
As the unlikely trio search for answers, hurtling them from elegant brothels to gaslit alleyways to shocking moments of self-discovery, they are confronted by puzzles within puzzles. And the closer they get to the truth, the more their lives are in danger. For the conspiracy they face—an astonishing alchemy of science, perverted religion, and lust for power—is so terrifying as to be beyond belief.”
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Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and robots. A burgeoning DIY community has brought a distinctive Victorian-fantasy style to their crafts and art. Steampunk evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct technologies as a way of talking about the future. This ultimate manual will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of Steampunk history.
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“Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science. With his magnificent trilogy, acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo demonstrates how this unique subgenre of science fiction is done to perfection—reinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution with odd technologies born of a truly twisted imagination.
In “Victoria,” the inexplicable disappearance of the British monarch-to-be prompts a scientist to place a human-lizard hybrid clone on the throne during the search for the missing royal. But the doppelgänger queen comes with a most troubling flaw: an insatiable sexual appetite. The somewhat Lovecraftian “Hottentots” chronicles the very unusual adventure of Swiss naturalist and confirmed bigot Louis Agassiz as his determined search for a rather grisly fetish plunges him into a world of black magic and monsters. Finally, in “Walt and Emily,” the hitherto secret and quite steamy love affair between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is revealed in all its sensuous glory—as are their subsequent interdimensional travels aboard a singular ship that transcends the boundaries of time and reality.
Ingenious, hilarious, ribald, and utterly remarkable, Di Filippo’s The Steampunk Trilogy is a one-of-a-kind literary journey to destinations at once strangely familiar and profoundly strange.”
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“Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow’s nest, being the ship’s eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there’d been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . .
Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt’s always wanted; convinced he’s lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist’s granddaughter that he realizes that the man’s ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious.”
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“It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group led by the scientist and explorer Professor Langdon St. Ives.
Can St. Ives keep the alien homunculus out of the claws of the villainous Ignacio Narbondo?”
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“Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey’s league. Fate has not been kind to the captain of the airship Ketty Jay—or his motley crew. They are all running from something. Crake is a daemonist in hiding, traveling with an armored golem and burdened by guilt. Jez is the new navigator, desperate to keep her secret from the rest of the crew. Malvery is a disgraced doctor, drinking himself to death. So when an opportunity arises to steal a chest of gems from a vulnerable airship, Frey can’t pass it up. It’s an easy take—and the payoff will finally make him a rich man.
But when the attack goes horribly wrong, Frey suddenly finds himself the most wanted man in Vardia, trailed by bounty hunters, the elite Century Knights, and the dread queen of the skies, Trinica Dracken. Frey realizes that they’ve been set up to take a fall but doesn’t know the endgame. And the ultimate answer for captain and crew may lie in the legendary hidden pirate town of Retribution Falls. That’s if they can get there without getting blown out of the sky.”
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“Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists.
But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side.
Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system, while her agents, Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, physical and supernatural. This time Newbury and Hobbes are called to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot, while attempting to solve a string of strangulations attributed to a mysterious glowing policeman, and dealing with a zombie plague that is ravaging the slums of the capital.”
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Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets—secrets that can completely alter the balance of power in the city of Ayona. This doesn’t sit well with Loharri, the Mechanic who created Mattie and still has the key to her heart— literally.
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London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. In this amazingly imaginative tal
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“Col Porpentine understands how society works: The elite families enjoy a comfortable life on the Upper Decks of the great juggernaut Worldshaker, and the Filthies toil Below Decks. Col’s grandfather, the Supreme Commander of Worldshaker, is grooming Col as his successor.
Used to keep Worldshaker moving, Filthies are like animals, unable to understand language or think for themselves. Or so Col believes before he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run who is clever and quick. If Riff is telling the truth, then everything Col has been told is a lie. And Col has the power to do something about it—even if it means risking his whole future.”
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“Jay Lake’s first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself.
Mainspring is the story of a young clockmaker’s apprentice, who is visited by the Archangel Gabriel. He is told that he must take the Key Perilous and rewind the Mainspring of the Earth. It is running down, and disaster to the planet will ensue if it’s not rewound. From innocence and ignorance to power and self-knowledge, the young man will make the long and perilous journey to the South Polar Axis, to fulfill the commandment of his God.”
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“Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the
rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians. He’s made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth’s own daughter, the Primer’s purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. It performs its function superbly. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes–members of the poor, tribeless class. Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell. When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian–John Percival Hackworth– in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special: the Primer.”
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“Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal–including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.
But what Lyra doesn’t know is that to help on of them will be to betray the other…”
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H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells Time Traveller, a gentleman inventor living in England, traverses first thousands of years and then millions into the future, before bringing back the knowledge of the grave degeneration of the human race and the planet. One wonders if Wells could truly see into the future, as over 100 years after its publication date his visions seem timelier than ever.
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“Welcome to the astounding world of Predator Cities!
London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon, London will feed.
In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage–and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.
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“Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.
Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire — and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London’s high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?”
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French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, only to discover instead the Nautilus, a self-contained world built by its enigmatic captain. Together Nemo and Aronnax explore the underwater marvels, undergo a transcendent experience amongst the ruins of Atlantis, and plant a black flag at the South Pole. But Nemo’s mission is one of revenge – and his methods coldly efficient. Verne’s classic work has left a profound mark on the twentieth century. Its themes are universal, is style humorous and grandiose, its construction masterly.
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“Steampunk is Victorian elegance and modern technology: steam-driven robots, souped-up stagecoaches, and space-faring dirigibles fueled by gaslight romance, mad scientists, and oh-so-trim waistcoats. It’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Wizard of Oz, and The Golden Compass.
Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and bold adventurers, this riveting anthology lovingly collects classic steampunk stories, pop culture–fueled discussions of steampunk, and essential recommended reading lists for the discerning steampunk fan.”
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When George Dower’s father died, he left George his watchmaker’s shop – and more. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue.
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“Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.
Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda’s request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.
While Isaac’s experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .”
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Ace Books is proud to present this classic novel of time travel in a beautiful new trade edition. It took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago, and now fans can savor this Philip K. Dick Award-winner for the first time all over again. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have assembled such an insane cast of characters: an ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a boy, a brainwashed Lord Byron, and finally, our hero, Professor Brendan Doyle.
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“It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. The balance of power is maintained by the British Empire – a most equitable and just Empire, ruled by the beloved King Edward VIII. A new world order, with peace and prosperity for all under the law. Yet, moved by the politics of envy and perverse utopianism, not all of the Empire’s citizens support the marvelous equilibrium.
Flung from the North East Frontier of 1902 into this world of the future, Captain Oswald Bastable is forced to question his most cherished ideals, discovering to his horror that he has become a nomad of the time streams, eternally doomed to travel the wayward currents of a chaotic multiverse.”
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“In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.
But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.
Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.”
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“It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.
Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of the war. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever.”
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1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with the future: Sybil Gerard—fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for.
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| 37 | Agatha H and the Airship City | Phil & Kaja Foglio | The Best Sci Fi Books |
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| 38 | Behemoth | Scott Westerfeld | Ypsilanti District Library |
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| 39 | Cold Magic | Kate Elliott | Best Fantasy Books |
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| 40 | Dearly Departed | Lia Habel | Yalsa |
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| 41 | Dreadnought | Cherie Priest | Ypsilanti District Library |
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| 42 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | The Best Sci Fi Books |
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| 43 | Fullmetal Alchemist | Hiromu Arakawa | Ypsilanti District Library |
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| 44 | Girl Genius | Phil Foglio | Best Fantasy Books |
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| 45 | Goliath | Scott Westerfeld | Ypsilanti District Library |
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| 46 | Heart Of Veridon | Tim Akers | Best Fantasy Books |
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| 47 | Larklight | Philip Reeve | Reader Pants |
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| 48 | Lord Kelvin’s Machine | James Blaylock | Wikipedia |
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| 49 | Phoenix Rising | Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris | Fantasy Book Review |
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| 50 | Steampunk II: steampunk reloaded | Ann & Jeff VanderMeer | Ypsilanti District Library |
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| 51 | Steampunk! An Anthology Of Fantastically Rich And Strange Stories | Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant | Buzzfeed |
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| 52 | The Girl in the Steel Corset | Kady Cross | Yalsa |
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| 53 | The Hunchback Assignments | Arthur Slade | Reader Pants |
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| 54 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | Reader Pants |
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| 55 | The Iron Duke | Meljean Brook | The Best Sci Fi Books |
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| 56 | The Kingdom Beyond The Waves | Stephen Hunt | Steampunk Books |
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| 57 | The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack | Mark Hodder | Steampunk Books |
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| 58 | Airman | Eoin Colfer | Reader Pants |
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| 59 | All Men of Genius | Lev A.C. Rosen | Books in the Spotlight |
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| 60 | Anti-Ice | Stephen Baxter | Wikipedia |
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| 61 | Clockwork Heart | Dru Pagliassotti | Wikipedia |
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| 62 | Clockwork Prince | Cassandra Clare | Buzzfeed |
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| 63 | Corsets & Clockwork: 13 steampunk romances | Trisha Telep | Ypsilanti District Library |
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| 64 | Etiquette & Espionage | Gail Carriger | Yalsa |
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| 65 | Fever Crumb | Philip Reeve | Reader Pants |
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| 66 | Foundling | D.M. Cornish | Reader Pants |
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| 67 | Ganymede | Cherie Priest | Bookriot |
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| 68 | God Save the Queen | Kate Locke | Books in the Spotlight |
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| 69 | Grandville | Bryan Talbot | Fantasy Book Review |
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| 70 | Heart of Iron | Ekaterina Sedia | Books in the Spotlight |
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| 71 | Heartless | Gail Carriger | Buzzfeed |
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| 72 | Howl’s Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones | Ypsilanti District Library |
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| 73 | Iron Council | China Mieville | Steampunk Books |
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| 74 | Lady of Devices | Shelley Adina | The Best Sci Fi Books |
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| 75 | Magic Under Glass | Jaclyn Dolamore | Reader Pants |
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| 76 | Mechanique | Genevieve Valentine | Books in the Spotlight |
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| 77 | New Amsterdam | Elizabeth Bear | Books in the Spotlight |
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| 78 | Queen Victoria’s Bomb | Ronald W. Clark | Wikipedia |
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| 79 | Scar Night | Alan Campbell | Steampunk Books |
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| 80 | Secrets of the Fire Sea | Stephen Hunt | Ypsilanti District Library |
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| 81 | Stormdancer | Jay Kristoff | Steampunk Scholar |
| Fantasy Book Review | |||
| 82 | Tales of the Ketty Jay | Chris Wooding | Fantasy Book Review |
| Renegade Revolution | |||
| 83 | The Art of Steampunk | Art Donovan | Abe Books |
| Buzzfeed | |||
| 84 | The Bookman | Lavie Tidhar | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 85 | The Dream of Perpetual Motion | Dexter Palmer | Ypsilanti District Library |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 86 | The Falling Machine | Andrew P. Mayer | Books in the Spotlight |
| Fantasy Book Review | |||
| 87 | The Friday Society | Adrienne Kress | Yalsa |
| Goodreads | |||
| 88 | The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray | Chris Wooding | Reader Pants |
| Goodreads | |||
| 89 | The Infernal Devices | Cassandra Clare | Fantasy Book Review |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 90 | The Iron Thorn | Caitlin Kittredge | Reader Pants |
| Yalsa | |||
| 91 | The Janus Affair (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #2) | Pip Ballantine | Goodreads |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 92 | The Light Ages | Ian R. MacLeod | Best Fantasy Books |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 93 | The Manual of Detection | Jedediah Berry | Library Journal |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 94 | The Peshawar Lancers | S.M. Stirling | Wikipedia |
| Abe Books | |||
| 95 | The Rise of the Iron Moon | Stephen Hunt | Ypsilanti District Library |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 96 | The Steel Tsar | Michael Moorcock | Steampunk Workshop |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 97 | What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower | Margaret Killjoy | Books in the Spotlight |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 98 | Wicked As They Come | Delilah S. Dawson | Bookriot |
| Goodreads | |||
| (Titles Appear On 1 Books Each) | |||
| 99 | A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences | Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris | Fantasy Book Review |
| 100 | A Steampunk Guide to Tea Dueling | Khurt Khave | Wikipedia |
| 101 | A Swan in Siam | Bookriot | |
| 102 | A Tale of Langdon St. Ives | James P Blaylock | Fantasy Book Review |
| 103 | A Wild West Tale | Mike Resnick | Fantasy Book Review |
| 104 | Ack-Ack Macaque | Gareth L Powell | Fantasy Book Review |
| 105 | Across the Stonewind Sky | Ged Maybury | Wikipedia |
| 106 | Age of Steam series | Devon Monk | Yak Max |
| 107 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | The Artifice |
| 108 | Aurorarama | Jean-Christophe Valtat | Wikipedia |
| 109 | Beneath London | James P Blaylock | Fantasy Book Review |
| 110 | Blameless (Parasol Protectorate, #3) | Gail Carriger | Goodreads |
| 111 | Blood In The Skies | Buzzfeed | |
| 112 | Bone Song | John Meaney | Best Fantasy Books |
| 113 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | Abe Books |
| 114 | Burton and Swinburne series | Mark Hodder | Yak Max |
| 115 | Camera Obscura | Lavie Tidhar | Wikipedia |
| 116 | Candle Man: Society of Unrelenting Vigilance | Glenn Dakin | Reader Pants |
| 117 | Captain Nemo: The Fantastic Adventures of a Dark Genius | Kevin J Anderson | Fantasy Book Review |
| 118 | Chainsaw Alice in Wonderland | Khurt Khave | Wikipedia |
| 119 | Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2) | Gail Carriger | Goodreads |
| 120 | Clementine (The Clockwork Century, #1.1) | Cherie Priest | Goodreads |
| 121 | Clockwork Lies: Iron Wind | Dru Pagliassotti | Fantasy Book Review |
| 122 | Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3) | Cassandra Clare | Goodreads |
| 123 | Clockwork, or All Wound Up | Philip Pullman | Reader Pants |
| 124 | Conspiracy (The Emperor’s Edge, #4) | Lindsay Buroker | Goodreads |
| 125 | Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School, #2) | Gail Carriger | Goodreads |
| 126 | Dead Iron (Age of Steam, #1) | Devon Monk | Goodreads |
| 127 | Death of a Necromancer | Martha Wells | Best Fantasy Books |
| 128 | Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time | James Gurney | Goodreads |
| 129 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Artifice |
| 130 | Empire State | Adam Christopher | Fantasy Book Review |
| 131 | Ether Frolics | Paul Marlowe | Wikipedia |
| 132 | Extraordinary Voyages series | Jules Verne | Yak Max |
| 133 | Finishing School series | Gail Carriger | Yak Max |
| 134 | Fitzpatrick’s War | Theodore Judson | Wikipedia |
| 135 | Flaming London | Joe R. Lansdale | Wikipedia |
| 136 | Flash Gold (Flash Gold Chronicles #1) | Lindsay Buroker | Goodreads |
| 137 | For the Crown and the Dragon | Stephen Hunt | Wikipedia |
| 138 | Four and Twenty Blackbirds | Bookriot | |
| 139 | From the Deep of the Dark | Stephen Hunt | Wikipedia |
| 140 | Ghosts of Karnak | George Mann | Fantasy Book Review |
| 141 | Ghosts of War | George Mann | Fantasy Book Review |
| 142 | Gilded | Karina Cooper | Wikipedia |
| 143 | Heart of Steel (Iron Seas, #2) | Meljean Brook | Goodreads |
| 144 | His Dark Materials series | Philip Pullman | Yak Max |
| 145 | Hour of the Wolf | Andrius Tapinas | Wikipedia |
| 146 | How to Draw Steampunk | Joey Marscocci | Ypsilanti District Library |
| 147 | In Dark Service | Stephen Hunt | Fantasy Book Review |
| 148 | Incarceron (Incarceron, #1) | Catherine Fisher | Goodreads |
| 149 | Iron Seas | Bookriot | |
| 150 | Iron West | Doug TenNapel | Ypsilanti District Library |
| 151 | Ironskin | Tina Connolly | Books in the Spotlight |
| 152 | Jack Cloudie | Stephen Hunt | Wikipedia |
| 153 | Jack Faust | Library Journal | |
| 154 | Johannes Cabal The Detective | Jonathan L. Howard | Tor Books |
| 155 | Journey to the Black City | Keith Mueller | Fantasy Book Review |
| 156 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne | The Artifice |
| 157 | Kelly Country | Bertram Chandler | Wikipedia |
| 158 | Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk, #1) | Bec McMaster | Goodreads |
| 159 | Liberator | Richard Harland | Wikipedia |
| 160 | Like Clockwork | Damien Love | Fantasy Book Review |
| 161 | Luminous Chaos | Jean-Christophe Valtat | Wikipedia |
| 162 | Magnificent Devices series | Shelley Adina | Yak Max |
| 163 | Maplecroft | Bookriot | |
| 164 | Merkabah Rider | Edward M Erdelac | Fantasy Book Review |
| 165 | Modern Marvels – Viktoriana | Wayne Reinagel | Wikipedia |
| 166 | Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2) | Balogun Ojetade | Wikipedia |
| 167 | Mystery of Peculiar Occurrences series | Pip Ballantine | Yak Max |
| 168 | Nefertiti’s Heart (Artifact Hunters, #1) | A.W. Exley | Goodreads |
| 169 | Newton’s Cannon | J. Gregory Keyes | Best Fantasy Books |
| 170 | Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) | Philip Pullman | Wikipedia |
| 171 | Oceanology: The True Account of the Voyage of the Nautilus | Zoticus de Lesseps | Reader Pants |
| 172 | On Stranger Tides | Tim Powers | The Artifice |
| 173 | Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol | Bookriot | |
| 174 | Pasquale’s Angel | Paul J. McAuley | Wikipedia |
| 175 | Pax Britannia | Jonathan Green | Wikipedia |
| 176 | Resurrection Engines: 15 Extraordinary Tales of Scientific Romance | Scott Harrison | Wikipedia |
| 177 | Return of the Dapper Men | Jim McCann/Janet Lee | The Guardian |
| 178 | Riveted (Iron Seas, #3) | Meljean Brook | Goodreads |
| 179 | Scourge: A Grim Doyle Adventure | David H Burton | The Guardian |
| 180 | Sea of Ghosts | Alan Campbell | Fantasy Book Review |
| 181 | Shadow | Diesel Jester | Wikipedia |
| 182 | Skybreaker | Kenneth Oppel | Ypsilanti District Library |
| 183 | Space Captain Smith | Toby Frost | Wikipedia |
| 184 | Starclimber | Kenneth Oppel | Ypsilanti District Library |
| 185 | Stardust | Neil Gaiman | Goodreads |
| 186 | Steam & Sorcery (Gaslight Chronicles, #1) | Cindy Spencer Pape | Goodreads |
| 187 | Steam, Smoke & Mirrors | Colin Edmonds | Wikipedia |
| 188 | Steamed | Katie MacAlister | Goodreads |
| 189 | Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos | Thomas Willeford | Abe Books |
| 190 | Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution | Ann VanderMeer | Wikipedia |
| 191 | Steampunk Soldiers | Josh Punk | |
| 192 | Steampunk: An Illustrated History | Brian J. Robb | Abe Books |
| 193 | Tarnished | Karina Cooper | Wikipedia |
| 194 | The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives omnibus | James P. Blaylock | Steampunk Scholar |
| 195 | The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) | Philip Pullman | Goodreads |
| 196 | The Amulet of Samarkand | Josh Punk | |
| 197 | The Angel of the Revolution | George Griffith | Abe Books |
| 198 | The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist : the anime | Hiromu Arakawa | Ypsilanti District Library |
| 199 | The Aylesford Skull | James Blaylock | Wikipedia |
| 200 | The Black Lung Captain | Chris Wooding | Wikipedia |
| 201 | The Book of Dead Days | Marcus Sedgwick | The Guardian |
| 202 | The Burning Page | Genevieve Cogman | Fantasy Book Review |
| 203 | The City and the City | China Mieville | Fantasy Book Review |
| 204 | The Clocks of London | Bookriot | |
| 205 | The Clockwork Dagger | Bookriot | |
| 206 | The Cog Work Apprentice in Dark Skies | Lee Tisler | Wikipedia |
| 207 | The Converted | CR Hindmarsh | Fantasy Book Review |
| 208 | The Dark Unwinding | Sharon Cameron | Yalsa |
| 209 | The Dark Volume (Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang, #2) | Gordon Dahlquist | Goodreads |
| 210 | The Death Collector | Justin Richards | Reader Pants |
| 211 | The Emperor’s Edge (The Emperor’s Edge, #1) | Lindsay Buroker | Goodreads |
| 212 | The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana | Jess Nevins | Flashlight Worthy |
| 213 | The Ether Chronicles | Bookriot | |
| 214 | The Executioner | George Mann | Tor Books |
| 215 | The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec/The Arctic Marauder | Jacques Tardi | The Guardian |
| 216 | The Girl in the Clockwork Collar (Steampunk Chronicles, #2) | Kady Cross | Goodreads |
| 217 | The Good, the Bad and the Infernal | Guy Adams | Fantasy Book Review |
| 218 | The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy | Jacopo della Quercia | Wikipedia |
| 219 | The Great Game | Lavie Tidhar | Wikipedia |
| 220 | The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire, #1) | Clay Griffith | Goodreads |
| 221 | The Immortal Empire | Kate Locke | Yak Max |
| 222 | The Invisible Library | Genevieve Cogman | Fantasy Book Review |
| 223 | The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | The Artifice |
| 224 | The Iron Jackal | Chris Wooding | Wikipedia |
| 225 | The Kingdom of Ohio | Matthew Flaming | Books in the Spotlight |
| 226 | The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars, #1) | Frank Beddor | Goodreads |
| 227 | The Lost World | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Artifice |
| 228 | The Mammoth Book of Steampunk | Sean Wallace | Wikipedia |
| 229 | The Map of Time (Trilogía Victoriana, #1) | Félix J. Palma | Goodreads |
| 230 | The Marbury Lens | Andrew Smith | Yalsa |
| 231 | The Martian Ambassador | Alan Baker | Tor Books |
| 232 | The Masked City | Genevieve Cogman | Fantasy Book Review |
| 233 | The Mensch with No Name | Edward M Erdelac | Fantasy Book Review |
| 234 | The Native Star (Veneficas Americana, #1) | M.K. Hobson | Goodreads |
| 235 | The Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1) | Jonathan L. Howard | Goodreads |
| 236 | The Night Circus | Buzzfeed | |
| 237 | The Nine-Pound Hammer | Jean Claude Bemis | The Guardian |
| 238 | The Northern Sunrise | Rob J Hayes | Fantasy Book Review |
| 239 | The Parasol Protectorate series | Gail Carriger | Yak Max |
| 240 | The Peculiars | Maureen McQuarry | Yalsa |
| 241 | The Prestige | Christopher Priest | Impact Books |
| 242 | The Prophecy Machine | Library Journal | |
| 243 | The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats | Mark Hodder | Fantasy Book Review |
| 244 | The Rithmatist (The Rithmatist, #1) | Brandon Sanderson | Goodreads |
| 245 | The Shadow Conspiracy | Brenda Clough | Fantasy Book Review |
| 246 | The Somnambulist | Library Journal | |
| 247 | The St. Croix Chronicles | Bookriot | |
| 248 | The Steam Man of the West | Joseph A. Lovece | Wikipedia |
| 249 | The Steampunk Adventurer’s Guide | Thomas Willeford | Fantasy Book Review |
| 250 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| 251 | The Strange Case of Finley Jayne (Steampunk Chronicles, #0.5) | Kady Cross | Goodreads |
| 252 | The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2) | Philip Pullman | Goodreads |
| 253 | The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter | The Best Sci Fi Books |
| 254 | The Weavers of Saramyr | Chris Wooding | Fantasy Book Review |
| 255 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | Best Fantasy Books |
| 256 | The Women of Nell Gwynne’s | Kage Baker | Books in the Spotlight |
| 257 | The Wrath of Fate | Robert Brown | Wikipedia |
| 258 | Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5) | Gail Carriger | Goodreads |
| 259 | Titus Alone | Mervyn Peake | Abe Books |
| 260 | Tunnel Through the Deeps OR A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! | Harry Harrison | Abe Books |
| 261 | Un Lun Dun | China Miéville | Goodreads |
| 262 | Vintage Tomorrows | James H. Carrott and Brian David Johnson | Abe Books |
| 263 | Whitechapel Gods | S.M. Peters | Goodreads |
| 264 | Wicked After Midnight | Bookriot | |
| 265 | Wicked As She Wants | Bookriot | |
| 266 | Wicked Gentlemen | Ginn Hale | Wikipedia |
| 267 | Winter’s Tale | Mark Helprin | Goodreads |
| 268 | Works of Jules Verne : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon; Round the Moon; Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | Goodreads |
| 269 | Worlds of the Imperium | Keith Laumer | Abe Books |
| 270 | Zeppelins West | Joe R. Lansdale | Wikipedia |
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| Best Fantasy Books | Fantasy with Steampunkish Element |
| Bookriot | STEAMPUNK FICTION AND THE WOMEN WHO WRITE IT |
| Books in the Spotlight | Ten Great Steampunk Novels (you might not have heard of) by M.K. Hobson |
| Buzzfeed | Top 10 Steampunk Books Of 2011 |
| Fantasy Book Review | The best steampunk books |
| Fantasy Magazine | Top 10 Literary Steampunk Works |
| Flashlight Worthy | 12 Classic Steampunk Books |
| Goodreads | Best Steampunk Books |
| Impact Books | Steampunk Fiction and the Best Steampunk Books |
| Josh Punk | Daniel Ottalini’s Top Steampunk Books |
| Library Journal | Steampunk: 20 Core Titles |
| Reader Pants | Books for Middle School Steampunk Fans |
| Renegade Revolution | 4 Steampunk Books Worth Reading! |
| Steampunk Books | TOP TEN STEAMPUNK BOOKS |
| Steampunk Scholar | Ten Books every Steampunk Scholar needs |
| Steampunk Workshop | The Nine Novels That Defined Steampunk |
| The Artifice | 6 Steampunk Books To Get The Gears Turning |
| The Best Sci Fi Books | 23 Best Steampunk Books |
| The Guardian | Sharon Gosling’s top 10 children’s steampunk books |
| The Ranting Dragon | Twenty Must Read Steampunk Books – An Introduction to the Genre |
| Tor Books | TEN ESSENTIAL STEAMPUNK NOVELS |
| Wikipedia | List of steampunk works |
| Yak Max | Beginner’s Guide to the Best Steampunk Books |
| Yalsa | Genre Guide: Steampunk for Teens |
| Ypsilanti District Library | Steampunk Books for Teens |
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