15 Top science fiction books like The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

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The Tiger Flu

By: Larissa Lai

3.53

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic wo…

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1. The Professor and the Siren

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

3.87

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in additio… read more

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  • fiction
"…They're dangerous as all gifts from the sea are; the sea offers death as well as immortality."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Professor and the Siren

"…And in truth, the sun, the seclusion, the nights passed beneath the wheeling stars, the silence, the scant nourishment, the study of remote subjects wove around me a spell that predisposed me to mar…"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Professor and the Siren

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2. City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.21

Format: 484 pages, Paperback

A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birt… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"You are wrong,"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2)

"Sometimes I can’t tell if you hate this place or love it."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2)

"They have forgotten that war is momentum. War is natural. And war makes one strong."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2)

"There's no such thing as a good death, Lalith," she says. "It's just a dull, stupid thing we all have to do eventually. To ask meaning of it is to ask meaning of a shadow."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2)

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3. Beauty

By: Sheri S. Tepper

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

With the publication of The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper came to be recognized as a maj… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. Brown Girl in the Ring

By: Nalo Hopkinson

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

"She's a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us would kill for. I have read everything… read more

Similar categories in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring book and Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu

  • canada
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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5. The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.97

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more

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  • canada
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

Cover of City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

6. City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.42

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

"He does his best to stumble through an explanation, but he suddenly feels like he knows very little. Perhaps he forgot it all, or perhaps he never really understood it to begin with."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

"Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves, but for future generations. But it is worth tending to. Oh, it is so terribly worth tending…"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

7. The People of Paper

By: Salvador Plascencia

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Amidst disillusioned saints hiding in wrestling rings, mothers burnt by glowing halos, and a Baby N… read more

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8. Once the Shore

By: Paul Yoon

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

With Once the Shore, Paul Yoon delivers an astonishing debut of linked short stories set on a South… read more

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9. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

10. Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

3.52

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Stormsong (The Kingston Cycle, #2) by C.L. Polk

11. Stormsong (The Kingston Cycle, #2)

By: C.L. Polk

3.88

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

After spinning an enthralling world in Witchmark, praised as a "can't-miss debut" by Booklist, and … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Stormsong (The Kingston Cycle, #2) book and Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

12. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories by Yu Chen

13. The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

By: Yu Chen

3.85

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story … read more

Similar categories in Yu Chen's The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories book and Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Tentacle

By: Rita Indiana

3.58

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

16. The Tiger Flu

By: Larissa Lai

3.53

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic wo… read more

Similar categories in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu book and Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves

17. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) by Cadwell Turnbull

18. We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In We Are the Crisis—the second book in the Convergence Saga from award-winning author Cadwell Turn… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo

19. In the Company of Men

By: Véronique Tadjo

3.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely f… read more

Similar categories in Véronique Tadjo's In the Company of Men book and Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu

  • fiction
Cover of The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville

20. The Last Days of New Paris

By: China Miéville

3.54

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

"Beauty will be convulsive...." It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Liberation was fucked up."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Devils and Nazis don’t work well together."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

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21. The Thirty Names of Night

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

4.04

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more

Similar categories in Zeyn Joukhadar's The Thirty Names of Night book and Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

19 Top fiction books like The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

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The Professor and the Siren

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

3.87

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City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2)

Robert Jackson Bennett

4.21

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Beauty

Sheri S. Tepper

3.93

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Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson

4.25

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20 Best fiction books like Flux by Jinwoo Chong

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz

3.37

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Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Nick Harkaway

4.03

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