Self-Portrait with Nothing
By: Aimee Pokwatka
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian’s fron…
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1. Everfair (Everfair, #1)
By: Nisi Shawl
3.20
Format: 381 pages, Hardcover
Everfair, the brilliant Neo-Victorian alternate-history novel from acclaimed short-story writer Nis… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
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"They were losing. No. They had lost."-Nisi Shawl, Everfair (Everfair, #1)
"Everything boiled down to alcohol and guns."-Nisi Shawl, Everfair (Everfair, #1)
"This was why there was no more beauty in the world anymore. War had killed it."-Nisi Shawl, Everfair (Everfair, #1)
2. 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
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- science fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
3. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
By: Mur Lafferty
3.71
Format: 457 pages, Paperback
From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- science fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
4. The Future
By: Naomi Alderman
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
5. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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- audiobook
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
6. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
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"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
7. 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
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- 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
8. The Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
9. The Deep Sky
By: Yume Kitasei
3.71
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- mystery
- audiobook
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky
10. Bridge
By: Lauren Beukes
3.68
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
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- fantasy
- mystery
- audiobook
11. The Ministry of Time
By: Kaliane Bradley
3.62
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
12. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
13. Singer Distance
By: Ethan Chatagnier
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Station Eleven and Light from Other Stars, Ethan Chatagnier’s propulsive, genre-bending… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"A road can be the connection between places or the distance between them"-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
"a constellation is formed by points of light that are not connected to each other by anything other than the observer"-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
"I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but they would testify to something."-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
"Crystal owed the two of us so many apologies, but I’d spent enough years imagining extracting those from my father to know that wringing someone else out didn’t make you any fuller."-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
14. A Half-Built Garden
By: Ruthanna Emrys
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more
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- speculative fiction
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- audiobook
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden
15. Self-Portrait with Nothing
By: Aimee Pokwatka
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian’s fron… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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- fantasy
- mystery
- audiobook
16. Flux
By: Jinwoo Chong
3.38
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more
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- fiction
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- speculative fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
17. Tell Me an Ending
By: Jo Harkin
3.64
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
What if you didn't have to live with your worst memories? Across the world, thousands of people … read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- mystery
- audiobook
"Where does the human regret live? Police stations, hospitals. Courtrooms. Hotel bedrooms- bedrooms in general. They should advertise on pillowcases."-Jo Harkin, Tell Me an Ending
18. January Fifteenth
By: Rachel Swirsky
3.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
“One of the best speculative writers of the last decade.”—John Scalzi January Fifteenth—the day … read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
19. On Earth as It Is on Television
By: Emily Jane
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane’s novel of the sudde… read more
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- contemporary
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
20. Walk the Vanished Earth
By: Erin Swan
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotiona… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
21. One's Company
By: Ashley Hutson
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed 's Must-Read Summer Books For read… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"-Ashley Hutson, One's Company
22. The Endless Vessel
By: Charles Soule
3.79
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of “depression plague” that p… read more
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- audiobook
23. Please Report Your Bug Here
By: Josh Riedel
3.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
24. See: Loss. See Also: Love.
By: Yukiko Tominaga
3.64
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Atomic Anna
By: Rachel Barenbaum
3.80
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster … read more
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26. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- fantasy
- mystery
- audiobook
27. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Nobodies
By: Alanna Schubach
3.81
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes I wondered if I imagined it, said Nina. But deep down I knew I didn't. Jess said, We d… read more
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- magical realism
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- contemporary
- science fiction
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29. The Moth Girl
By: Heather Kamins
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Anna is a regular teenaged girl. She runs track with her best friend, gets good grades, and sometim… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
30. How to Adjust to the Dark
By: Rebecca van Laer
4.44
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a heroic couplet found inside a fortune cookie and ending with the novella’s titular… read more
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