5 Top speculative fiction books like Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

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Noor

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.82

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thou…

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Noor by Nnedi Okorafor , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

1. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

2. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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3. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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5. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky  Chambers

8. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

By: Becky Chambers

None

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

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10. Light from Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

4.06

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more

Similar categories in Ryka Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Lindsey Stirling?"

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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11. Tread of Angels

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.48

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Tread of Angels book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels

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12. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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13. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

Similar categories in Naseem Jamnia's The Bruising of Qilwa book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) by N.K. Jemisin

14. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

15. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky  Chambers

16. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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17. Noor

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.82

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thou… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Noor book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • adult fiction
  • africa
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

18. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

19. Riot Baby

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

3.72

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered … read more

Similar categories in Tochi Onyebuchi's Riot Baby book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When you have a purpose that doesn't involve hurting someone else, it changes the way you walk."

-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby

"Look at outside. We don't have drug dealers on the corners anymore. I can't remember the last time someone was shot on this block. My church-goers can come and go in peace." "When there isn't a curfe…"

-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby

Cover of Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) by Micaiah Johnson

20. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

By: Micaiah Johnson

4.15

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more

Similar categories in Micaiah Johnson's Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."

-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

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21. The Splinter in the Sky

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) about a … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Splinter in the Sky book and Nnedi Okorafor's Noor

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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3.64

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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4.17

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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Robert Jackson Bennett

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