The House of Rust
By: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage t…
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1. Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Angélica Gorodischer
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
This is the first of Argentinean writer Angelica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be t… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
2. A Taste of Honey
By: Kai Ashante Wilson
4.35
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluca, the emperor brought his… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
3. 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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- science fiction fantasy
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
4. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
By: Wole Talabi
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning Nigerian author presents a mythic tale of disgruntled… read more
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- africa
- fantasy
- fiction
5. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf
By: Malika Moustadraf
3.83
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrat… read more
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- africa
- fiction
6. The Spear Cuts Through Water
By: Simon Jimenez
4.19
Format: 525 pages, Hardcover
Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
7. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
By: Samit Basu
3.59
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
8. The Havoc of Choice
By: Wanjiru Koinange
4.31
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
2007, Kenya Long held captive by her father’s shadow of corruption, Kavata has spent her life su… read more
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- africa
- novels
- african literature
- fiction
- kenya
9. Arboreality
By: Rebecca Campbell
4.06
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. … read more
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- fiction
10. The Past Is Red
By: Catherynne M. Valente
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Ci… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"The day I met her I knew I was never gonna be the girl from before I heard her voice ever again."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that’s waiting on the other side of five years from now. That’s a stranger waiting to ambush you, and …"-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"She listens, and I wish I could give her a little gold trophy for it, but I can’t, because of all the things Fuckwits gave trophies for, they never thought listening like nothing exists but time and …"-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
11. Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #1)
By: Jeff Noon
3.72
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
In a distant, tattered future an old woman, a young girl and mechanical man embark on a slow voyage… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
12. Arca
By: Van Jensen
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The planet is dying, the rich are escaping, and absolutely nothing is what it seems in this thrilli… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
13. Confessions of Nairobi Men
By: Joan Thatiah
4.34
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Confessions of Nairobi Men is a culmination of three years Joan Thatiah has spent listening to stor… read more
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14. The House of Rust
By: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage t… read more
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- africa
- magical realism
- novels
- coming of age
- science fiction fantasy
- young adult
- fiction
- kenya
- african literature
- fantasy
15. The Magical Language of Others
By: E.J. Koh
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daugh… read more
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16. The Wings Upon Her Back
By: Samantha Mills
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A loyal warrior in a crisis of faith must fight to regain her place and begin her life again while … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
17. After the Dragons
By: Cynthia Zhang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Dragons were fire and terror to the Western world, but in the East they brought life-giving rain… … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"But it’s not fair. You shouldn’t be the only one —"-Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons
"Five thousand years of history and this is what we have to show for it. All our ancestral animals hunted near extinction or bred into pets."-Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons
"At the temple, the monks had told stories of the first emperor, how Heaven saw his noble deeds and so turned him into a dragon on his death. For centuries, it was said the people of his nation were t…"-Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons
"That's the way with anything worth doing, isn't it? You work and work, and there's always a risk of whether it's enough or not, of whether any of this is going to make a difference or if it's just mo…"-Cynthia Zhang, After the Dragons
18. How To Be a Revolutionary
By: C.A. Davids
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences Fleeing her … read more
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- africa
- fiction
19. The Dragonfly Sea: A novel
By: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
3.90
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stu… read more
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- africa
- magical realism
- coming of age
- fiction
- kenya
- african literature
"On the map she looked at, there was no place marker for Pate Island. No color brown or green to suggest her own existence within the sea. So she wanted to know about places that could be rendered inv…"-Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, The Dragonfly Sea: A novel
20. The West Passage
By: Jared Pechaček
3.96
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to s… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
21. She Who Knows (She Who Knows #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
4.13
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Part science fiction, part fantasy, and entirely infused with West African culture and spirituality… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
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