6 Top novella books like The Passing of the Dragon by Ken Liu

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The Passing of the Dragon

By: Ken Liu

4.10

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman who fears she's failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her fav…

"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Seven-and-seventy years in a shoebox, The penciled dates fading, gone, Scales of the dragon I can never know . . ."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

If you liked the novella plot in The Passing of the Dragon by Ken Liu , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Detonation Boulevard by Alastair Reynolds

1. Detonation Boulevard

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, … read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Jade Shards (The Green Bone Saga, #0.75) by Fonda Lee

3. Jade Shards (The Green Bone Saga, #0.75)

By: Fonda Lee

4.34

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Fonda Lee returns to the acclaimed Green Bone Saga with four prequel short stories that delve into … read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Jade Shards (The Green Bone Saga, #0.75) book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6) by Lavie Tidhar

4. The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.98

Format: 32 pages, ebook

While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan disc… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6) book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Ivy, Angelica, Bay

By: C.L. Polk

4.16

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle s… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Ivy, Angelica, Bay book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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6. Also, the Cat

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.32

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest i… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's Also, the Cat book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
"You know, life never made any sense. I guess there’s no reason for the afterlife to."

-Rachel Swirsky, Also, the Cat

Cover of Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale by Kathleen Jennings

7. Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.00

Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition

Delicately balancing between poetry and prose, award-winning author and illustrator Kathleen Jennin… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jennings's Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Sound of Reindeer

By: Lyndsie Manusos

2.78

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Ada’s holiday trip to meet her girlfriend’s family becomes a bit more fraught than usual when she d… read more

Similar categories in Lyndsie Manusos's The Sound of Reindeer book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler

9. The Job at the End of the World

By: Ray Nayler

3.76

Format: 21 pages, ebook

A weary resilience worker should know better than no one is safe when the world is always ending..… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Passing of the Dragon by Ken Liu

10. The Passing of the Dragon

By: Ken Liu

4.10

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman who fears she's failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her fav… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • art
  • dragons
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Seven-and-seventy years in a shoebox, The penciled dates fading, gone, Scales of the dragon I can never know . . ."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"We’re all trying to tell our own story, And we make other people parts of our own stories. We’re meant to bring our stories together, to speak and listen and know that the stories are real and they m…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Life is one long story we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, and in our quest for meaning, we make other people players in our own psychomachia. Sometimes the consequence of doing that can be…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

Cover of The Puppetmaster by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

11. The Puppetmaster

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.71

Format: 15 pages, ebook

A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken...and … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Puppetmaster book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of After the Animal Flesh Beings by Brian Evenson

12. 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

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's After the Animal Flesh Beings book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean

13. 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

Similar categories in Sunyi Dean's How to Cook and Eat the Rich book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Form 8774-D by Alex Irvine

14. Form 8774-D

By: Alex Irvine

3.91

Format: 54 pages, ebook

It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employe… read more

Similar categories in Alex Irvine's Form 8774-D book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener by Ramsey Shehadeh

15. The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener

By: Ramsey Shehadeh

3.68

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

After a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to cataloging ephemera… read more

Similar categories in Ramsey Shehadeh's The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal (Judge Dee, #7) by Lavie Tidhar

16. Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal (Judge Dee, #7)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.10

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Unknown forces attempt to stop Judge Dee and Jonathan from transporting a mysterious and possibly d… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal (Judge Dee, #7) book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Jack O'Dander

By: Priya Sharma

3.70

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

The sister of an abducted child is haunted by a sinister figure who may or may not be real. . . … read more

Similar categories in Priya Sharma's Jack O'Dander book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • short stories
Cover of The Three O’Clock Dragon by John Wiswell

18. The Three O’Clock Dragon

By: John Wiswell

3.80

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing drago… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's The Three O’Clock Dragon book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • dragons
Cover of Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4) by Carrie Vaughn

19. Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.94

Format: 32 pages, ebook

On one of their earliest Visigoth assignments, Graff and Ell stumble into each other’s secrets (and… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4) book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Headhunting by Rich  Larson

20. Headhunting

By: Rich Larson

3.61

Format: 36 pages, ebook

A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a … read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's Headhunting book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of What It Means To Be A Car by James Patrick Kelly

21. What It Means To Be A Car

By: James Patrick Kelly

3.61

Format: 15 pages, ebook

An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt… read more

Similar categories in James Patrick Kelly's What It Means To Be A Car book and Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • short stories

16 Top fiction books like The Passing of the Dragon by Ken Liu

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Detonation Boulevard

Alastair Reynolds

3.83

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On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

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Jade Shards (The Green Bone Saga, #0.75)

Fonda Lee

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)

Lavie Tidhar

3.98

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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

Transform Your Habits

Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

Kathleen Jennings

3.00

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