14 Best fiction books like No Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke Bolander

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No Flight Without the Shatter

By: Brooke Bolander

3.76

Format: 32 pages, ebook

From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares…

"Hatching is not the end of what lies inside the egg, only the end of the shell around it. There’s no flight without the shatter, and no flock without the flight. What we’re made of will go on. A fledgling in some other place and time will look up for guidance and maybe see the path we leave behind, even when all of this as it is"

-Brooke Bolander, No Flight Without the Shatter

"Hatching is not the end of what lies inside the egg, only the end of the shell around it. There’s no flight without the shatter, and no flock without the flight. What we’re made of will go on. A fledgling in some other place and time will look up for guidance and maybe see the path we leave behind, even when all of this as it is"

-Brooke Bolander, No Flight Without the Shatter

If you liked the fiction plot in No Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke Bolander , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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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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  • novella
  • 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. 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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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction

3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Six Months, Three Days

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.73

Format: 216 pages,

Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, bran… read more

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9. 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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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"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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10. 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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  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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11. 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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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. 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

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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13. 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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  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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14. 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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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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16. 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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  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of No Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke Bolander

17. No Flight Without the Shatter

By: Brooke Bolander

3.76

Format: 32 pages, ebook

From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Bolander's No Flight Without the Shatter book and Brooke Bolander's No Flight Without the Shatter

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • animals
  • magic
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Hatching is not the end of what lies inside the egg, only the end of the shell around it. There’s no flight without the shatter, and no flock without the flight. What we’re made of will go on. A fled…"

-Brooke Bolander, No Flight Without the Shatter

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18. 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

Similar categories in Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections book and Brooke Bolander's No Flight Without the Shatter

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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19. 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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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"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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20. 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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  • science fiction
  • 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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21. 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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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

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Veronica Schanoes

3.89

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Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

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3.91

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3.86

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4.04

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Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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E. Lily Yu

3.47

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3.00

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