15 must-read fantasy books like The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor

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The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.78

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

By fate and fire, a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary Afr…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Veronica Roth

1. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Void (The Far Reaches, #2) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Cover of The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) by Ann Leckie

2. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

3. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

4. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Bloody Summer

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.70

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What do children know that adults can’t begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in th… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's Bloody Summer book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. The Last Conversation

By: Paul Tremblay

3.76

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Last Conversation book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Soon. You keep saying soon. I don't think you and I share that words meaning."

-Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

7. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Ark

By: Veronica Roth

3.60

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Ark book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Well, you can’t love everything equally,"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year— those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Well, you can't love everything equally," she said. "You just can't - and if you did, then it's the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear because that's what love …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Why, she had once asked her mother, do you bother to keep anything alive when it’ll all be wiped out by Finis? Her mother had shrugged. Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

Cover of Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

9. Emergency Skin

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.03

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's Emergency Skin book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

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10. The Tiger Came to the Mountains

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexico, 1917. On a farm during the violent tumult of revolution, a more immediate threat prowls in … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Tiger Came to the Mountains book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Wildlife

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition

Nature offers sanctuary for a woman with a violent past. But anything can happen when borderlands a… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Wildlife book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cleaners (Faraway Collection) by Ken Liu

12. The Cleaners (Faraway Collection)

By: Ken Liu

3.48

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Touch the past or wash it away? Two sisters have a choice in this unforgettable short story of ever… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Cleaners (Faraway Collection) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6) by Veronica G. Henry

13. The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6)

By: Veronica G. Henry

3.43

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

Amid the modern trappings of 1950s Savannah, an ancient evil threatens a young widow and her daught… read more

Similar categories in Veronica G. Henry's The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor

14. The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.78

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

By fate and fire, a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary Afr… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • africa
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
Cover of Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7) by Garth Nix

15. Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)

By: Garth Nix

3.31

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A cynical “fixer” for a silent-film studio must confront the shadows behind the bright lights in th… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection) by Nic Stone

16. Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection)

By: Nic Stone

3.47

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

Two anxious young lovers lost in the woods. A beckoning mansion in a dark clearing. A short modern-… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection) book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

17. Zikora

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.27

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a mov… read more

Similar categories in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Zikora book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • africa
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You can’t nice your way to being loved."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

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18. The Backbone of the World

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.93

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Backbone of the World book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. A Righteous Man

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

3.29

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A missionary in nineteenth-century Africa suffers a chilling crisis of faith in a short story about… read more

Similar categories in Tochi Onyebuchi's A Righteous Man book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Stag

By: Karen Russell

3.32

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Feeling alone? Join the party in a darkly comic and deeply felt short story about fragility and res… read more

Similar categories in Karen Russell's Stag book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds by Nisi Shawl

21. Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

By: Nisi Shawl

3.74

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The sky is not the limit. From an alley in New York to an interstellar wormhole, the path to the fu… read more

Similar categories in Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds book and Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

21 Best fiction books like The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor

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Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

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Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

John Scalzi

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Chandler Baker

3.77

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Jason Mott

3.77

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Rebecca Roanhorse

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Paul Tremblay

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