14 best-selling science fiction books like A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

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A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.23

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a new YA fantasy duology from a bestselling genre-expanding master, about a teena…

If you liked the science fiction plot in A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

1. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

2. The White-Throated Transmigrant

By: E. Lily Yu

3.89

Format: 266 pages, ebook

After a bird fatally collides with her car, a troubled young woman's life changes irrevocably. read more

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3. The Ghost Notebooks

By: Ben Dolnick

3.92

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in … read more

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4. Passing Strange

By: Ellen Klages

4.23

Format: 11 pages, ebook

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the ci… read more

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5. Star Eater

By: Kerstin Hall

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

All martyrdoms are difficult. Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way o… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee

6. Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

By: Alec Nevala-Lee

4.21

Format: 544 pages, ebook

“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. No Flight Without the Shatter

By: Brooke Bolander

3.76

Format: 32 pages, ebook

From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Hatching is not the end of what lies inside the egg, only the end of the shell around it. There’s no flight without the shatter, and no flock without the flight. What we’re made of will go on. A fled…"

-Brooke Bolander, No Flight Without the Shatter

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8. 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
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Buried Deep and Other Stories

By: Naomi Novik

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. The Necessary Arthur

By: Garth Nix

3.75

Format: 41 pages, ebook

The Necessary Arthur, a Tor.com Original, is a delightful science fantasy novelette from internatio… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

11. A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.23

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a new YA fantasy duology from a bestselling genre-expanding master, about a teena… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1) book and Jeff VanderMeer's A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)

  • unfinished
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Trouble the Saints

By: Alaya Dawn Johnson

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Undergroun… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1) by Aliette de Bodard

13. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.85

Format: 122 pages, ebook

Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhe… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1) book and Jeff VanderMeer's A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)

  • magic
  • fantasy
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14. Wait for Night

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.90

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones is horror story about a day laborer hired to help clean up a… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Beyond the Dragon's Gate

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.73

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. If You Take My Meaning

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.66

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sh… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

17. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4) by Emma Newman

18. Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4)

By: Emma Newman

4.10

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about ven… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Mars

By: Asja Bakić

3.85

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with makin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael  Zapata

20. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

By: Michael Zapata

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"His father was a pirate."

-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

"Every telling of an event is a portrait of the teller and not the event itself."

-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

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21. Anthropocene Rag

By: Alexander C. Irvine

3.35

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Anthropocene Rag is "a rare distillation of nanotech, apocalypse, and mythic Americana into a heady… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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  • fantasy

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