5 Best speculative fiction books like The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly

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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…

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Gooseberries and other stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

Format: None pages, ebook

"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more

Similar categories in Anton Chekhov's Gooseberries and other stories book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • short stories
  • fiction
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

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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

Similar categories in Theodora Goss's Red as Blood and White as Bone book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. Aloysha the Pot

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.16

Format: 331 pages, ebook

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy read more

Similar categories in Leo Tolstoy's Aloysha the Pot book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. 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

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The City Born Great book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

5. 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

Similar categories in Aaron Corwin's Brimstone and Marmalade book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • 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. A Cup of Salt Tears

By: Isabel Yap

3.71

Format: 234 pages,

Makino's mother taught her caution, showed her how to carve her name into cucumbers, and insisted t… 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. Lullaby for a Lost World

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.68

Format: 330 pages, ebook

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up thr… 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 Little Witch

By: M. Rickert

3.59

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Every Halloween, an elderly woman hands out candy to a young trick-or-treater who's dressed as a wi… read more

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  • novella
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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12. 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

Similar categories in Cheri Kamei's Blood in the Thread book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2) by Lavie Tidhar

13. Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.89

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Judge Dee is back to solve a brand-new case involving the mysterious death of the vampire Count Wer… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2) book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • fantasy
  • short stories
  • magic
  • fiction
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15. Little Free Library

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.03

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Sharing stories we love with one another is one of the most magical forms of connection there is. T… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Little Free Library book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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16. 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 Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • 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

Similar categories in Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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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

Similar categories in Indrapramit Das's Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • science fiction
  • 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

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's After the Animal Flesh Beings book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative 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

Similar categories in Sunyi Dean's How to Cook and Eat the Rich book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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21. 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 Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • 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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22. 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 Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • short stories
  • food
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Nine Last Days on Planet Earth by Daryl Gregory

23. 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
  • 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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24. 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

Similar categories in Carolyn Ives Gilman's Exile's End book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • 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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25. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Two Truths and a Lie book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"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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26. Into the Gray

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.56

Format: 22 pages, ebook

"You're using me," I said. "That might be true, but I also love you." One is the Lady of the … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's Into the Gray book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie by Kathleen Jennings

27. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Jennings's The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Counting Casualties by Yoon Ha Lee

28. 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

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Counting Casualties book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again by Zen Cho

29. If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again

By: Zen Cho

4.34

Format: 30 pages, ebook

A hapless imugi is determined to attain the form of a full-fledged dragon and gain entry to the gat… read more

Similar categories in Zen Cho's If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll

30. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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31. 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 Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

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Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

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Red as Blood and White as Bone

Theodora Goss

3.54

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Aloysha the Pot

Leo Tolstoy

4.16

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N.K. Jemisin

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Nghi Vo

4.04

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Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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E. Lily Yu

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