11 Top fantasy books like Intruders: Short Stories by Mohale Mashigo

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Intruders: Short Stories

By: Mohale Mashigo

4.10

Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition

Orphan sisters chase monsters of urban legend in Bloemfontein. At a busy taxi rank, a woman kills a…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Intruders: Short Stories by Mohale Mashigo , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. All the Birds in the Sky

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.59

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways un… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's All the Birds in the Sky book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • science fiction
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What was worse, being crazy or being evil?"

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

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2. Woman at Point Zero

By: Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata

4.19

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells o… read more

Similar categories in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • africa
  • fiction
"Who said to kill does not require gentleness?"

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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3. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

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4. Dread Nation

By: Justina Ireland

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Cha… read more

Similar categories in Justina Ireland's Dread Nation book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #0.5)

By: Jane Austen , Steve Hockensmith , Patrick Arrasmith

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Journey Back to Regency England - Land of the Undead! Readers will witness the birth of a heroine i… read more

Similar categories in Jane Austen's Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #0.5) book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction

6. Under the Udala Trees

By: Chinelo Okparanta

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful … read more

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7. The Jokers

By: James Buchan , Albert Cossery , Anna Moschovakis

3.76

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Who are the jokers? The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the governor,… read more

Similar categories in James Buchan's The Jokers book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • africa
  • fiction
"[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want."

-James Buchan, The Jokers

8. Nervous Conditions

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

4.54

Format: 253 pages,

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more

Similar categories in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

9. The Sunrise

By: Victoria Hislop

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a cit… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hislop's The Sunrise book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

10. Red Moon

By: Benjamin Percy

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A werewolf epic. Can't stop thinking about it."--Stephen King They live among us. They are our nei… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Percy's Red Moon book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

11. Recipes for Love and Murder (Tannie Maria Mystery, #1)

By: Sally Andrew

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Tannie Maria: A woman who likes to cook a lot and write a little. Tannie Maria writes recipes … read more

Similar categories in Sally Andrew's Recipes for Love and Murder (Tannie Maria Mystery, #1) book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

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12. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's Lone Women book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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13. What Strange Paradise

By: Omar El Akkad

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more

Similar categories in Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • fiction
"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

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14. Butter Honey Pig Bread

By: Francesca Ekwuyasi

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Ekwuyasi's Butter Honey Pig Bread book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • africa
  • fiction
"Death is only a doorway."

-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread

Cover of Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

15. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

By: Bolu Babalola

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more

Similar categories in Bolu Babalola's Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • africa
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

Cover of Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose) by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

16. Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

By: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

4.40

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this sit between th… read more

Similar categories in Yvette Lisa Ndlovu's Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose) book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • africa
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • african literature
  • fantasy
Cover of Intruders: Short Stories by Mohale Mashigo

17. Intruders: Short Stories

By: Mohale Mashigo

4.10

Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition

Orphan sisters chase monsters of urban legend in Bloemfontein. At a busy taxi rank, a woman kills a… read more

Similar categories in Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • africa
  • magical realism
  • south africa
  • anthologies
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • african literature
  • fantasy
Cover of A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1) by L.L. McKinney

18. A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

By: L.L. McKinney

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A Blade So Black delivers an irresistible urban fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland... but it'… read more

Similar categories in L.L. McKinney's A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1) book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Breathe, Baby Moon."

-L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

"And Hatta was a lying liar who lies!"

-L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

"But for what it's worth, you're my hero."

-L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

"He was going to find this kitten had claws."

-L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

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19. Spitting Gold

By: Carmella Lowkis

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously haunting debut for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner set in 19th-century Paris, b… read more

Similar categories in Carmella Lowkis's Spitting Gold book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

20. Friday Black

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.05

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"We’re in How-It-Was class."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"Buy One Get One stops for no one."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

Cover of Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks

21. Moonrise Over New Jessup

By: Jamila Minnicks

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more

Similar categories in Jamila Minnicks's Moonrise Over New Jessup book and Mohale Mashigo's Intruders: Short Stories

  • fiction

16 must-read fiction books like Intruders: Short Stories by Mohale Mashigo

Transform Your Habits

All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata

4.19

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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

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Dread Nation

Justina Ireland

3.78

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Transform Your Habits

Hare Moon (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #0.1)

Carrie Ryan

3.70

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A Long Conversation

Cassandra Clare

4.21

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Dawn of the Dead

George A. Romero , Susanna Sparrow

3.78

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Enid Blyton

2.50

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