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Browse our Victim or Villain collection on Bookshop.org UK
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
- Bookshop.org UK — edition ISBN 9780241248744
- Amazon UK — Penguin Classics paperback (Christine Donougher translation)
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Silas Marner
George Eliot
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
- Bookshop.org UK — edition ISBN 9780140449266
- Amazon UK — Hardback
- Amazon UK — Kindle
- Amazon UK — French film
The Iliad
Homer
The Odyssey
Homer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
50 Science Fiction Classics
Explore our separate science-fiction reading collection, alongside the books featured in our posts. These editions are available through Bookshop.org UK.
Browse Victim or Villain? — 50 Science Fiction Classics on Bookshop.org UK
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Dune
Frank Herbert
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld
Larry Niven
Roadside Picnic
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Solaris
Stanisław Lem
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndham
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Jules Verne
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Victim or Villain: Bunny vs Monkey & More
Who is the hero, who is the villain—and who is just making a spectacular mess? Explore Jamie Smart's chaotic woodland rivalries, questionable schemes and good intentions gone sideways. Pick a book and decide: misunderstood baddie, misguided goodie—or a bit of both?
Browse our Jamie Smart collection on Bookshop.org UK
Bunny vs Monkey: Day of the Heroes!
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey and the Human Invasion
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey and the League of Doom
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey and the Supersonic Aye-aye
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: Rise of the Maniacal Badger
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: Multiverse Mix-up!
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: Machine Mayhem
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: The Impossible Pig
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: The Great Big Glitch
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: Bunny Bonanza
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business!
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: The Gigantic Joke Fight
Jamie Smart
Bunny vs Monkey: The Whopping World of Puzzles
Jamie Smart
The World of Bunny vs Monkey
Jamie Smart
Listed as preorder when checked on 8 October 2026; check current release and availability.
Looshkin: The Maddest Cat in the World
Jamie Smart
Looshkin: Oof! Right in the Puddings!
Jamie Smart
Looshkin: Honk If You See It!
Jamie Smart
Megalomaniacs: The Invasion Begins!
Jamie Smart
Max and Chaffy: Welcome to Animal Island!
Jamie Smart
Max and Chaffy: The Great Cupcake Mystery
Jamie Smart
Max and Chaffy: Search for the Ice Chaffy
Jamie Smart
Max and Chaffy: Hunt for the Pirate's Gold
Jamie Smart
Max and Chaffy: What a Delicious Discovery!
Jamie Smart
Flember 1: The Secret Book
Jamie Smart
Flember 2: The Crystal Caves
Jamie Smart
Flember 3: The Glowing Skull
Jamie Smart
Flember 4: The Power of the Wildening
Jamie Smart
Flember 5: The Golden Heart
Jamie Smart
Dandy Presents: Desperate Dan by Jamie Smart
Jamie Smart
Dandy Presents: Desperate Dan by Jamie Smart vol. 2
Jamie Smart
Read with Oxford: Stage 5: Comic Books: Superhero Bunny League
Jamie Smart
Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks: Oxford Level 9: Superhero Bunny League in Space!
Jamie Smart
Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks: Oxford Level 8: Superhero Bunny League Saves the World!
Jamie Smart
Read with Oxford: Stage 3: Comic Books: Pip, Lop, Mip, Bop
Jamie Smart
Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks: Oxford Level 5: Pip, Lop, Mip, Bop and the Bumbles
Jamie Smart
Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks: Oxford Level 4: Pip, Lop, Mip, Bop and the Stuck Star
Jamie Smart
Victim or Villain: Dungeons, Level-Ups & Rogue AIs
Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl and wondering what to read next? Meet reluctant heroes, suspicious AIs and survivors who refuse to play by the rules. Explore LitRPG and progression fantasy, follow the Bobiverse into space, then discover sharp, funny and dangerous adventures by women writers. Some picks have levels and stats; others share the wit, ingenuity or impossible choices. Are these characters victims of the system, villains in the making, or both?
Browse our Dungeons, Level-Ups & Rogue AIs collection on Bookshop.org UK
LitRPG: levels, systems and survival
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Matt Dinniman
The Gate of the Feral Gods
Matt Dinniman
The Butcher's Masquerade
Matt Dinniman
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Matt Dinniman
This Inevitable Ruin
Matt Dinniman
A Parade of Horribles
Matt Dinniman
He Who Fights With Monsters: Outworlder
Shirtaloon (Travis Deverell)
He Who Fights With Monsters: Adventurer
Shirtaloon (Travis Deverell)
Level: Apocalypse
David Dalglish
Advent
Seth Ring
Progression fantasy
Unsouled
Will Wight
Bobiverse: AI and space adventure
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Dennis E. Taylor
For We Are Many
Dennis E. Taylor
All These Worlds
Dennis E. Taylor
Selected paperback edition listed as preorder on Bookshop.org UK, checked 9 October 2026.
Heaven's River
Dennis E. Taylor
Not Till We Are Lost
Dennis E. Taylor
Selected paperback edition listed as preorder on Bookshop.org UK, checked 9 October 2026.
Women-authored fantasy and science-fiction readalikes
The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1: All Systems Red / Artificial Condition
Martha Wells
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
A Closed and Common Orbit
Becky Chambers
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Velocity Weapon
Megan E. O'Keefe
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
The Legend of Eli Monpress
Rachel Aaron
Space Opera
Catherynne M. Valente
Full Speed to a Crash Landing
Beth Revis
