You may be interested in these two cheap Kindle versions of classic books.

The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein* is 3.99. The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King are still ten bucks on the Kindle, tho.

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur Clarke* is 2.99.

As long as we are on the subject of cheap Kindle book, 366 Days in Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency: The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America’s Greatest President by Stephen Wynalda* is two bucks. I’m not recommending it, I’ve not read it, but I am reading Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald, which I recommend, so it caught my eye.

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut is cheap on Kindle right this second. Not at some other time.*

But time is relative, so you better also check out The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro Ferreira, also cheap at this time, relative to other times.*

For kindle, Dune, cheap, at least for American customers.

Meanwhile, of possible interest: Other Worlds Than These by John Joseph Adams.

“We can all imagine such “other worlds”–be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder–but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume–until now.”

It is an anthology of some kind, I put it here because it looks interesting, but I’ve not read it. Have you?

Two books that you probably already have but just in case you don’t now’s your chance, cheap in Kindle format: Continue reading Reimagined fairy tails, hidden history, books cheap. →

Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla (Citadel Press Book) by Marc J. Siefer is avilable for 3 bucks in Kindle form right now.

And while I have your attention, this might interest you: Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder.

In Kindle form, worth checking out if you don’t already have them:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries Book 7) by PD James.

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel. Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land.

Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison’s forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.

In Kindle format:

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke by Clarke

The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot series Book 13) by A.G.

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli.

Best New Horror: Volume 25 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror) edited by Stephen Jones