8 Top fantasy books like The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase

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The Silence of the Wilting Skin

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: …

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

1. The Whale Rider

By: Witi Ihimaera

3.84

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more

Similar categories in Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

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2. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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  • fiction
"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Cover of Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo, None, Tuzyaline Jita Allan

3. Changes: A Love Story

By: Ama Ata Aidoo , None , Tuzyaline Jita Allan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and fa… read more

Similar categories in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • africa
  • fiction
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4. Blonde Roots

By: Bernardine Evaristo

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

The most provocative debut novel of the year, "a dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly tur… read more

Similar categories in Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • africa
  • fantasy
  • fiction

5. Amatka

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A surreal and shockingly original debut novel set in a dystopian world shaped by language--literall… read more

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6. Mandragola

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

3.95

Format: 132 pages,

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7. Flush

By: Virginia Woolf , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more

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8. Ali and Nino: A Love Story

By: Kurban Said

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to… read more

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9. L'età fragile

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more

Similar categories in Donatella Di Pietrantonio's L'età fragile book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • fiction
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10. Glory

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

3.70

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more

Similar categories in NoViolet Bulawayo's Glory book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

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11. Parti e omicidi

By: Sayaka Murata

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Parti e omicidi book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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12. The Membranes

By: Chi Ta-wei

3.98

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more

Similar categories in Chi Ta-wei's The Membranes book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Parole d'altro genere: Come le scrittrici hanno cambiato il mondo by Vera Gheno

13. Parole d'altro genere: Come le scrittrici hanno cambiato il mondo

By: Vera Gheno

3.78

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

Per secoli le donne hanno nascosto le proprie parole dietro a pseudonimi o non le hanno pubblicate … read more

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14. The Animals in That Country

By: Laura Jean McKay

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to b… read more

Similar categories in Laura Jean McKay's The Animals in That Country book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase

15. The Silence of the Wilting Skin

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: … read more

Similar categories in Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • africa
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • botswana
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of L’anno dell’influenza animale (Italian Edition) by Laura Jean McKay

16. L’anno dell’influenza animale (Italian Edition)

By: Laura Jean McKay

2.82

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Jean è una donna sola e alcolista. Un giorno la sua già precaria vita viene stravolta da una notizi… read more

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Cover of The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager

17. The Archive of Alternate Endings

By: Lindsey Drager

4.06

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with ear… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Drager's The Archive of Alternate Endings book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Jacob will think: What is at stake in sharing this story? And Wilhelm will think: What is at stake in leaving this story untold?"

-Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings

"Though she cannot read, she knows well that what gets committed to the page, what gets translated into the code of letters and locked in the coffin of a book, becomes truth while everything else diss…"

-Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings

Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

18. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Un buio diverso. Voci dai Necromilieus by Luigi Musolino

19. Un buio diverso. Voci dai Necromilieus

By: Luigi Musolino

4.49

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

Esistono geografie del macabro, luoghi in cui il Male ristagna e prolifera, varchi sull’inconcepibi… read more

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20. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

By: Wayétu Moore

4.24

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United Sta… read more

Similar categories in Wayétu Moore's The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir book and Tlotlo Tsamaase's The Silence of the Wilting Skin

  • africa
"Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different."

-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

"I could be beautiful in a place and still not enough, not because of who I was or anything I had done, but because of something as simple, and somehow as grand in this new place, as the color of my s…"

-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

"I think, as women of color, especially women of color who come from some means, any means really, we tend to play down the unpleasant things we've experienced. To bury them ... Perfection or the desi…"

-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

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21. Stasera faremo cadere il cielo

By: Alan Thomas Bassi

4.10

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

"Di sotto è pieno di creature. Stanno circondando la casa, si tengono per mano. Stanno guardando ve… read more

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12 Best fiction books like The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase

Transform Your Habits

The Whale Rider

Witi Ihimaera

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Changes: A Love Story

Ama Ata Aidoo , None , Tuzyaline Jita Allan

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Blonde Roots

Bernardine Evaristo

4.11

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10 Top fiction books like The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager

Transform Your Habits

The Whale Rider

Witi Ihimaera

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Changes: A Love Story

Ama Ata Aidoo , None , Tuzyaline Jita Allan

3.31

Transform Your Habits

The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

Premee Mohamed

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Membranes

Chi Ta-wei

3.98

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