9 best-selling fantasy books like Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch

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Thrust

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins--vulnerable h…

"Memory is proof that imagination is a real place."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

"Women have been outsmarting their counter-genders since the dawn of time. I do wonder, though, when women will tire of their part in the story and revolt. I imagine the bloodbath."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

"Miles of information... so that questions might be answered, so that judgements might be made, so that stories would not be lost, so that memory might outlive slaughter. So that crimes against humanity could be witnessed by the humanity that survived them."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

If you liked the fantasy plot in Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. The Last Days of Magic

By: None

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess stru… read more

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2. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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3. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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4. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

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5. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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6. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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7. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

Similar categories in Téa Obreht's The Morningside book and Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
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8. Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

3.77

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more

Similar categories in Ed Park's Same Bed Different Dreams book and Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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9. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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10. The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more

Similar categories in Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose book and Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

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11. 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 Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Tidal Creatures (Alchemical Journeys, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City… New York Times bestselling author Seanan M… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Tidal Creatures (Alchemical Journeys, #3) book and Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

Similar categories in Jinwoo Chong's Flux book and Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • time travel
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14. Wish I Was Here

By: M. John Harrison

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'Is M John Harrison the best writer at work today? He's certainly among the deftest and most origin… read more

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"Much of life, you will never know what happened to you at all, let alone to anyone else."

-M. John Harrison, Wish I Was Here

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15. What We Fed to the Manticore

By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

4.11

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R.F. Kuang

16. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

By: R.F. Kuang

3.68

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"

-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

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17. Thrust

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins--vulnerable h… read more

Similar categories in Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust book and Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • time travel
  • historical
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Memory is proof that imagination is a real place."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

"Women have been outsmarting their counter-genders since the dawn of time. I do wonder, though, when women will tire of their part in the story and revolt. I imagine the bloodbath."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

"Miles of information... so that questions might be answered, so that judgements might be made, so that stories would not be lost, so that memory might outlive slaughter. So that crimes against humani…"

-Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust

Cover of State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

18. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Lidia Yuknavitch's Thrust

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of L'isola dove volano le femmine by Marta Lamalfa

19. L'isola dove volano le femmine

By: Marta Lamalfa

3.90

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

«Un'isola siciliana tra le rocce, cielo e miseria. Un romanzo intenso fatto di carne e di sangue, d… read more

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20. La vita profonda

By: Martina Faedda

4.38

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

A diciott’anni Olivia comincia una nuova vita a Torino, in una casa divisa in due come la sua famig… read more

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21. A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

By: Charlie J Stephens

4.49

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

A dark yet hopeful tale about a child's search for love and safety.  "A pulsing novel filled with s… read more

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  • fiction

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Miranda July

3.81

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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Liberation Day

George Saunders

4.00

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Melissa Broder

3.49

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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Annalee Newitz

3.37

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Nick Harkaway

4.03

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