9 must-read short stories books like The Last Catastrophe: Stories by Allegra Hyde

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The Last Catastrophe: Stories

By: Allegra Hyde

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Last Catastrophe: Stories by Allegra Hyde , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Rain by Kirsty Gunn

1. Rain

By: Kirsty Gunn

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Twelve-year-old Janey and her younger brother, Jim, spend summers at a lake with their parents. Ign… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Gunn's Rain book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction

2. Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before h… read more

Similar categories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

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3. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

Cover of White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

4. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog: Stories book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

Cover of Out There by Kate  Folk

5. Out There

By: Kate Folk

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kate Folk's Out There book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

6. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • lgbt
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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7. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Parade by Rachel Cusk

8. 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

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
"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 Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis

9. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

Similar categories in Juli Min's Shanghailanders book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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11. Hangman

By: Maya Binyam

3.59

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more

Similar categories in Maya Binyam's Hangman book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott

12. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more

Similar categories in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Disruptions by Steven Millhauser

13. Disruptions

By: Steven Millhauser

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culminatio… read more

Similar categories in Steven Millhauser's Disruptions book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • adult
  • short stories
Cover of This Is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara

14. This Is Salvaged

By: Vauhini Vara

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more

Similar categories in Vauhini Vara's This Is Salvaged book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

15. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • short stories
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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16. Glassworks

By: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four gene… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's Glassworks book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Last Catastrophe: Stories by Allegra Hyde

17. The Last Catastrophe: Stories

By: Allegra Hyde

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by… read more

Similar categories in Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

18. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

19. 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 Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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 Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Burn by Peter Heller

21. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe: Stories

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • adult
  • fiction

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Kirsty Gunn

3.67

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Ling Ma

3.91

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3.84

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Lisa Ko

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