5 Top speculative fiction books like The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens

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The Visitors

By: Jessi Jezewska Stevens

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

C can’t pay her debts. Once a renowned textile artist, her husband has left her sole proprietor of …

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1. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

2. City of Illusions

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

1.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and n… read more

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3. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more

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"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."

-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

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4. Mamut

By: Eva Baltasar

3.58

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
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5. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

Cover of Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin

6. Vladivostok Circus

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Geneva

By: Richard Armitage

3.64

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alz… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of No es un río by Selva Almada

8. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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10. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Cover of Termush by Sven Holm

11. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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12. Saint Sebastian's Abyss

By: Mark Haber

3.71

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"

-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss

Cover of Dr. No by Percival Everett

13. Dr. No

By: Percival Everett

3.71

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

Cover of The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

14. The Body Scout

By: Lincoln Michel

3.63

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister lo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"...People had been predicting the death of the city for years. Would that finally drive all the people out of this sinking island? I imagined office buildings filled with screeches instead of confere…"

-Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout

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15. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
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16. Lublin

By: Manya Wilkinson

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Elya is the lad with the vision, and Elya has the map. Ziv and Kiva aren’t so sure. The water may r… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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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

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"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 The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens

18. The Visitors

By: Jessi Jezewska Stevens

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

C can’t pay her debts. Once a renowned textile artist, her husband has left her sole proprietor of … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
Cover of Bad Eminence by James   Greer

19. Bad Eminence

By: James Greer

3.22

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealt… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Mice 1961 by Stacey Levine

20. Mice 1961

By: Stacey Levine

3.70

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Stacey Levine's new novel recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two orphaned sister… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing by Robin McLean

21. Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing

By: Robin McLean

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of R… read more

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  • fiction
"Nothing was better for forgetting than making plans."

-Robin McLean, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing

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Transform Your Habits

The City & the City

China Miéville

3.90

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Mamut

Eva Baltasar

3.58

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Boulder

Eva Baltasar

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Vladivostok Circus

Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

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Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

Irene Solà

3.91

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Boulder

Eva Baltasar

3.89

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Canto yo y la montaña baila

Irene Solà

4.24

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Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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