5 must-read science fiction books like Salt Lick by Lulu Allison

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Salt Lick

By: Lulu Allison

3.66

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy…

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Cover of The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

1. The Book of Form and Emptiness

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.03

Format: 548 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"

-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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2. Children of Paradise

By: Camilla Grudova

3.49

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

4. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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5. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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7. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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8. Remote Sympathy

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.31

Format: 526 pages, Hardcover

Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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9. In Defence of the Act

By: Effie Black

4.12

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

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10. Pod

By: Laline Paull

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."

-Laline Paull, Pod

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11. Build Your House Around My Body

By: Violet Kupersmith

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A century of Vietnam's history and folklore comes to life in this "brilliant, sweeping epic that sw… read more

Similar categories in Violet Kupersmith's Build Your House Around My Body book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"He did not have to have him. He just had to be near him. It was enough."

-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body

"I love her but I don't have to have her. I just have to be near her. And that's enough."

-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body

"[She knew that] what she felt for him was not love, it was closer to it than she deserved."

-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body

"Winnie felt better in the sunlight. She let her hand rest on the tree's ropy trunk. The bark was smooth beneath her fingers. These were the breed of strangling ficus that spent two hundred years brai…"

-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body

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12. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

Similar categories in Aube Rey Lescure's River East, River West book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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13. Pearl

By: Siân Hughes

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more

Similar categories in Siân Hughes's Pearl book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The New Wilderness

By: Diane Cook

3.68

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel that explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"It was soft, tickling. The liquid was cold going on, like dipping her pinky into a winter river's icy slurry. A thrill shot through her neck. Then, everything on her finger closed up., tightened, sto…"

-Diane Cook, The New Wilderness

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15. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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17. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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18. Flamingo

By: Rachel Elliott

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearless In the garden, there were three flami… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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19. The Exhibitionist

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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21. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer

22. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

By: Maddie Mortimer

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Cover of The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini

23. The Bread the Devil Knead

By: Lisa Allen-Agostini

4.03

Format: 277 pages, ebook

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"Tell the truth, I was fed up with the house, fed up with the licks. Fed up with Leo and him blaming me for everything. But you ever find yourself down in a canal? It hard to climb out by yourself."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"But people does get on like if you, as a woman who have no man, you not good enough, like you's not a real woman. So if is either stay with a asshole or have no man at all, I rather stay with a assho…"

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

Cover of Fire Rush by Jacqueline  Crooks

24. Fire Rush

By: Jacqueline Crooks

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Crooks's Fire Rush book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Popisho by Leone Ross

25. Popisho

By: Leone Ross

3.82

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."

-Leone Ross, Popisho

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26. Mischief Acts

By: Zoe Gilbert

3.78

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Herne the hunter, mischief-maker, spirit of the forest, leader of the wild hunt, hurtles through th… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Gilbert's Mischief Acts book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Careless by Kirsty Capes

27. Careless

By: Kirsty Capes

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess f… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Salt Lick by Lulu Allison

28. Salt Lick

By: Lulu Allison

3.66

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy… read more

Similar categories in Lulu Allison's Salt Lick book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Homesick by Jennifer  Croft

29. Homesick

By: Jennifer Croft

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's Homesick book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide

30. Creatures of Passage

By: Morowa Yejide

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington,… read more

Similar categories in Morowa Yejide's Creatures of Passage book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two"

-Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage

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31. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Lulu Allison's Salt Lick

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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Ruth Ozeki

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3.49

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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3.70

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