Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
By: Akil Kumarasamy
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens…
Want to Read $ 11.99"The refugees continued to cross the sea and we tried to map out the violence, the peaks and the falls, through time. When does a war begin? Is it with a public declaration broadcast in the morning hours in the president’s voice, or is it more private, watching your village burn down, your family slaughtered in their sleep by salaried soldiers?"-Akil Kumarasamy, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
"The refugees continued to cross the sea and we tried to map out the violence, the peaks and the falls, through time. When does a war begin? Is it with a public declaration broadcast in the morning hours in the president’s voice, or is it more private, watching your village burn down, your family slaughtered in their sleep by salaried soldiers?"-Akil Kumarasamy, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
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1. The Great Transition
By: Nick Fuller Googins
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more
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- adult
- dystopia
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"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition
"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition
2. 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
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3. Swim Home to the Vanished
By: Brendan Shay Basham
3.35
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the river swallowed Kai, Damien’s little brother didn’t die so much as vanish. As the unbea… read more
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4. Arboreality
By: Rebecca Campbell
4.06
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. … read more
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- science fiction
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5. Singer Distance
By: Ethan Chatagnier
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Station Eleven and Light from Other Stars, Ethan Chatagnier’s propulsive, genre-bending… read more
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- science fiction
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"A road can be the connection between places or the distance between them"-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
"a constellation is formed by points of light that are not connected to each other by anything other than the observer"-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
"I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but they would testify to something."-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
"Crystal owed the two of us so many apologies, but I’d spent enough years imagining extracting those from my father to know that wringing someone else out didn’t make you any fuller."-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
6. 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
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- literary fiction
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"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
7. 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
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8. Birds of Maine
By: Michael DeForge
4.25
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Take flight to this post-apocalyptic utopia filled with birds. Birds roam freely around the Moon c… read more
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9. The Parliament
By: Aimee Pokwatka
3.74
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
The Birds meets The Princess Bride in this tale of friendship, responsibility, and the primal force… read more
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10. The Sea Elephants
By: Shastri Akella
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a you… read more
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"He sat down on the porch, chuckling, and I wanted to be that sound in his throat, to be that decibel that corresponded so precisely to his pleasure."-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
"Once upon a time, the gods took away the first ancestor of the sea elephants, coveting him for his exceptional beauty— tusks blue, body ivory. The trauma of that original separation haunts every sea …"-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
"Time...is a rocking horse. When Krishna was a child, he pulled its ear, released it, and walked away, laughing. It creaked, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Noisy nonstop. We worship K…"-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
11. Ten Planets: Stories
By: Yuri Herrera
3.54
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vul… read more
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12. Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us
By: Joseph Andras
4.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France … read more
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13. My Name Is Iris
By: Brando Skyhorse
3.37
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more
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- dystopia
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
14. 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 fantasy
- dystopia
- fiction
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"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
15. Wolfish
By: Christiane M. Andrews
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Inquisitor’s Tale meets The Book of Boy in this adventurous fantasy inspired by the myth of Rom… read more
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16. Maria, Maria and Other Stories
By: Marytza K. Rubio
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against… read more
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17. Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
By: Akil Kumarasamy
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"The refugees continued to cross the sea and we tried to map out the violence, the peaks and the falls, through time. When does a war begin? Is it with a public declaration broadcast in the morning ho…"-Akil Kumarasamy, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
18. The Unraveling
By: Benjamin Rosenbaum
3.95
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
In the distant future somewhere in the galaxy, a society has emerged where everyone has multiple bo… read more
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19. Toward Eternity
By: Anton Hur
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more
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20. Brother Alive
By: Zain Khalid
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following th… read more
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