18 must-read fantasy books like Blood in the Thread by Cheri Kamei

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Blood in the Thread

By: Cheri Kamei

3.86

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.Nothing tears two wo…

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1. Burning Girls

By: Veronica Schanoes

3.89

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Burning Girls, by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educ… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Learning and skill are things to be proud of; they are the stars that light the sky of one’s lifetime."

-Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls

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2. Red as Blood and White as Bone

By: Theodora Goss

3.54

Format: 337 pages, ebook

Red as Blood and White as Boneby Theodora Goss is a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. The City Born Great

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.49

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this yea… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. Brimstone and Marmalade

By: Aaron Corwin

3.77

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Just in time for Halloween, we have a funny, sweet, and slightly skewed short story by Aaron Corwin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star

By: Kathleen Ann Goonan

3.91

Format: 160 pages, ebook

"A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star", by Kathleen Ann Goonan, … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

6. The Hanging Game

By: Helen Marshall

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, ebook

Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Sky… read more

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7. The Devil in America

By: Kai Ashante Wilson

4.50

Format: 142 pages, ebook

Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them acr… read more

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8. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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9. Tear Tracks

By: Malka Ann Older

3.89

Format: None pages, ebook

Flur traveled across the stars to make first contact with the Cyclopes, hoping to forge a peace tre… read more

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10. Please Undo This Hurt

By: Seth Dickinson

4.16

Format: None pages, ebook

Ever feel like you care too much? After a breakup, after the funeral...it feels like the way to win… read more

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11. The Language of Knives

By: Haralambi Markov

4.50

Format: None pages, ebook

"The Language of Knives" by Haralambi Markov is about the death rituals of this secondary world. A … read more

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12. This World is Full of Monsters

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 38 pages, ebook

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."

-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

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13. L'Esprit de L'Escalier

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.97

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente is a provocative retelling of the Greek myth, in wh… read more

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  • retellings
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. Small Monsters

By: E. Lily Yu

3.91

Format: 37 pages, ebook

All it’s life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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15. Blood in the Thread

By: Cheri Kamei

3.86

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.Nothing tears two wo… read more

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  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. Salt Water

By: Eugenia Triantafyllou

3.62

Format: 18 pages, ebook

While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa's fish becoming somet… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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17. Porgee's Boar

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.79

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

An artist's work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best cust… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds

By: Indrapramit Das

3.29

Format: 32 pages, ebook

A student of multiversal time travel slips from one version of New York to another, discovering th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. After the Animal Flesh Beings

By: Brian Evenson

3.85

Format: 23 pages, ebook

A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. How to Cook and Eat the Rich

By: Sunyi Dean

3.78

Format: 9 pages, ebook

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

By: Tina Connolly

4.23

Format: 30 pages, ebook

A young food taster to the Traitor King must make a difficult choice in this story of pastries, mag… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

By: Daryl Gregory

3.91

Format: 42 pages, ebook

When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--… read more

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  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He could talk at length about the known invasive species, and why there were so many different ones: the weblike filaments choking the trees in New Orleans, the flame-colored poppies erupting on Mexi…"

-Daryl Gregory, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

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23. Exile's End

By: Carolyn Ives Gilman

4.03

Format: 48 pages, ebook

Exile's End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"How do you lose your name? When people stop telling your story. Why must we tell our story? Because others start telling it for us."

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

"He came to the prison of ghosts; For Hoarder people do not free their dead. Their feet fall heavy, weighted by the past They do not hear the spirits cry for freedom They heap up secrets in an archive…"

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

"Let’s sing of the lightbeam journey Of the man who was not a man Sent by the Whispering Kindom To search the sky for ghosts. How did he find the way? He followed the poison papers, He followed the sc…"

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

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24. Two Truths and a Lie

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.79

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."

-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie

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25. The Art of Space Travel

By: Nina Allan

3.44

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned missi… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
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26. The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.47

Format: 32 pages, ebook

In a fairy tale equal parts gorgeous and gruesome, village couples seek approval for marriage from … read more

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  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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27. Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

By: Rivers Solomon

3.67

Format: 25 pages, ebook

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can gr… read more

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  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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28. The Tale of Ak and Humanity

By: Yefim Zozulya

3.39

Format: 25 pages, ebook

"The Tale of Ak and Humanity" is a Tor.com Original from sci-fi author Yefim Zozula.Citizens are di… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

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  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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30. Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy

By: J.Y. Yang

3.73

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

As an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Lynette was haunted by the ghost of Mirror Boy, the drowned child … read more

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  • romance
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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31. We're Here, We're Here

By: K.M. Szpara

3.64

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Joining a boyband gave Tyler everything he ever dreamed of. A close-knit group of friends, the chan… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer

23 Best fiction books like Blood in the Thread by Cheri Kamei

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Burning Girls

Veronica Schanoes

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Red as Blood and White as Bone

Theodora Goss

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The City Born Great

N.K. Jemisin

4.49

Brimstone and Marmalade

Aaron Corwin

3.77

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On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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The River and the World Remade

E. Lily Yu

3.47

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Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

Kathleen Jennings

3.00

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