19 must-read science fiction books like The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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The Ten Percent Thief

By: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, th…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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2. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
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3. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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4. 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 Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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5. 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

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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6. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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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

Similar categories in Samit Basu's The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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

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8. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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9. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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10. More Perfect

By: Temi Oh

3.69

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, for fans of Becky Chambers and William Gib… read more

Similar categories in Temi Oh's More Perfect book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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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

Similar categories in Jeff Noon's Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #1) book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. Navola

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.92

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Wind-Up Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping li… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Bacigalupi's Navola book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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13. Lost Ark Dreaming

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.69

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high… read more

Similar categories in Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Lost Ark Dreaming book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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14. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Waidner's Corey Fah Does Social Mobility book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Failures (The Wanderlands, #1)

By: Benjamin Liar

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

From a debut voice comes a genre-breaking blend of apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy about a scat… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Liar's The Failures (The Wanderlands, #1) book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar

16. The Circumference of the World

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notoriou… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Circumference of the World book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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17. 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 Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

18. The Ten Percent Thief

By: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, th… read more

Similar categories in Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • india
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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19. The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar

By: Indra Das

4.22

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

Ru is a boy from nowhere. Though he lives somewhere—the city of Calcutta—his classmates in school r… read more

Similar categories in Indra Das's The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction fantasy
  • india
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point book and Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

20 must-read fiction books like The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz

3.37

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The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

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7 best-selling lgbt books like The Failures (The Wanderlands, #1) by Benjamin Liar

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The Sky on Fire

Jenn Lyons

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

Charlotte Bond

3.78

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The Failures (The Wanderlands, #1)

Benjamin Liar

4.20

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The Stars Too Fondly

Emily Hamilton

3.80

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