7 Best anthologies books like Jewel Box by E. Lily Yu

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Jewel Box

By: E. Lily Yu

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A luminous collection of short fiction by award-winning writer E. Lily Yu, Jewel Box showcases inca…

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1. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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2. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • short story collection
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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3. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog: Stories book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • magical realism
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

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5. 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

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more

Similar categories in Tlotlo Tsamaase's Womb City book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's The Water Outlaws book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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9. The Liberators

By: E.J. Koh

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Koh's The Liberators book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fiction
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10. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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12. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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14. The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1)

By: Ariel Kaplan

3.99

Format: 545 pages, Hardcover

Ariel Kaplan’s The Pomegranate Gate is the lyrical first installment of the Mirror Realm Cycle, a v… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Kaplan's The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1) book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's The Book of Love book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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16. The Death I Gave Him

By: Em X. Liu

3.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's The Death I Gave Him book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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17. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

Similar categories in Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • magical realism
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) by Micaiah Johnson

18. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

By: Micaiah Johnson

4.15

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more

Similar categories in Micaiah Johnson's Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."

-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

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19. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more

Similar categories in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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21. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

Similar categories in Emet North's In Universes book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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22. Disruptions

By: Steven Millhauser

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culminatio… read more

Similar categories in Steven Millhauser's Disruptions book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer

23. Liberty's Daughter

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Liberty's Daughter book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Jewel Box by E. Lily Yu

24. Jewel Box

By: E. Lily Yu

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A luminous collection of short fiction by award-winning writer E. Lily Yu, Jewel Box showcases inca… read more

Similar categories in E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • magical realism
  • short story collection
  • collections
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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25. The Invisible Hotel

By: Yeji Y. Ham

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative … read more

Similar categories in Yeji Y. Ham's The Invisible Hotel book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fiction
Cover of The Glass Box by J. Michael Straczynski

26. The Glass Box

By: J. Michael Straczynski

3.95

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski, The Glass Box is a hard-hitting, fast paced sci-f… read more

Similar categories in J. Michael Straczynski's The Glass Box book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

27. 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 E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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28. Uranians: Stories

By: Theodore McCombs

3.90

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “… read more

Similar categories in Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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29. The Last Witch in Edinburgh

By: Marielle Thompson

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This lush, atmospheric novel blends witchcraft, queer love, a vibrant Edinburgh setting, and Scotti… read more

Similar categories in Marielle Thompson's The Last Witch in Edinburgh book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop (Halloween Bookshop Mystery, #1) by Emmeline Duncan

30. Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop (Halloween Bookshop Mystery, #1)

By: Emmeline Duncan

3.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Bailey Briggs adores her year-round Halloween-themed town of Elyan Hollow, Oregon, but when she tak… read more

Similar categories in Emmeline Duncan's Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop (Halloween Bookshop Mystery, #1) book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fiction
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31. Sacrificial Animals

By: Kailee Pedersen

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more

Similar categories in Kailee Pedersen's Sacrificial Animals book and E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box

  • adult
  • fiction
"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

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4.05

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