5 must-read science fiction books like Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare

Cover of Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare

Yume

By: Sifton Tracey Anipare

3.36

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

A modern-day fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan.Cybell…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Hell Screen by Jay Rubin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

1. Hell Screen

By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

4.20

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more

Similar categories in Jay Rubin's Hell Screen book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • asia
  • fiction
  • japan
"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."

-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen

"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."

-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen

"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"

-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen

"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"

-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen

Cover of Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda

2. Honeybees and Distant Thunder

By: Riku Onda

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Tender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and riv… read more

Similar categories in Riku Onda's Honeybees and Distant Thunder book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • japan
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The highest form of human achievement was music. Human beings might have dirty, repulsive aspects to them, but out of the sordid swamp that was humanity - no, it was precisely because of this chaotic…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"Music always had to be of the now. It couldn't just be something preserved in a museum, and it was meaningless unless it was alive in the present. If you were satisfied with merely unearthing a lovel…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"What kind of job was it to be a musician? What sort of vocation was it, anyway? Vocation - that was the perfect word for it. It really was a calling, a living calling. It didn't fill your stomach, di…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"What a strange thing music was. It was just one small individual up there performing, and the notes created by those fingers were here one moment and gone the next. Yet what was there was almost the …"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Cover of How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa

3. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more

Similar categories in Souvankham Thammavongsa's How to Pronounce Knife: Stories book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • asia
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

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4. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • science fiction
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

Cover of The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley

5. The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.60

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with the wondrous and bizarre world of fungi - from a childh… read more

Similar categories in Aliya Whiteley's The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

"This particular orchid gets all its energy from fungi, sometimes from different kinds of fungi simultaneously. It never even begins to turn to the sun. No photosynthesis here. It relies utterly on it…"

-Aliya Whiteley, The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World

Cover of Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1) by Mariely Lares

6. Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)

By: Mariely Lares

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving… read more

Similar categories in Mariely Lares's Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1) book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When no one is around to talk in your ear, then you can hear the only voice that really matters. Your own."

-Mariely Lares, Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)

Cover of Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

7. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Cover of Spy x Family: The Official Guide―Eyes Only by Tatsuya Endo

8. Spy x Family: The Official Guide―Eyes Only

By: Tatsuya Endo

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

The official guide to the hit manga Spy x Family!The intimate secrets of the Forger family are reve… read more

Similar categories in Tatsuya Endo's Spy x Family: The Official Guide―Eyes Only book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

9. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

Cover of Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel

10. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Daniel's Daughters of the Deer book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Story of Us by Catherine  Hernandez

11. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui

12. Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants

By: Ann Hui

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there … read more

Similar categories in Ann Hui's Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

Cover of The Witcher: Ronin by Rafał Jaki

13. The Witcher: Ronin

By: Rafał Jaki

3.74

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

An original comic set in an ancient-Japanese-inspired world where monster slayer Geralt trails the … read more

Similar categories in Rafał Jaki's The Witcher: Ronin book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • japan
Cover of Persephone Station by Stina Leicht

14. Persephone Station

By: Stina Leicht

3.47

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Hugo award-nominated author Stina Leicht has created a take on space opera for fans of The Mandalor… read more

Similar categories in Stina Leicht's Persephone Station book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of とんがり帽子のアトリエ 12 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 12] by Kamome Shirahama

15. とんがり帽子のアトリエ 12 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 12]

By: Kamome Shirahama

4.52

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

銀夜行列でココの晴れ舞台が成功に終わった喜びも束の間、エズレストの街に突如巨大な怪物が出現。 島民たちが混乱の渦に陥る中、魔警団だけでなく島王や賢者までもが被害を食い止めるために奔走する。 一方… read more

Similar categories in Kamome Shirahama's とんがり帽子のアトリエ 12 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 12] book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Citadel by C.M. Alongi

16. Citadel

By: C.M. Alongi

4.35

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Citadel, the only city on the planet Edalide, has a holy mission: exterminate the demons from the F… read more

Similar categories in C.M. Alongi's Citadel book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Phoenix King (The Ravence Trilogy, #1) by Aparna Verma

17. The Phoenix King (The Ravence Trilogy, #1)

By: Aparna Verma

3.69

Format: 513 pages, Paperback

The fate of a desert kingdom rests in the hands of a princess desperate for power and an assassin w… read more

Similar categories in Aparna Verma's The Phoenix King (The Ravence Trilogy, #1) book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He wished he could tell her how beautiful she looked. How, when she danced, she morphed into something more, something ethereal, timeless."

-Aparna Verma, The Phoenix King (The Ravence Trilogy, #1)

Cover of The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher

18. The Skin and Its Girl

By: Sarah Cypher

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Cypher's The Skin and Its Girl book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

Cover of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

19. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare

20. Yume

By: Sifton Tracey Anipare

3.36

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

A modern-day fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan.Cybell… read more

Similar categories in Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • asia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • japan
Cover of デキる猫は今日も憂鬱 7 [Dekiru Neko wa Kyō mo Yūutsu 7] by Hitsuji Yamada

21. デキる猫は今日も憂鬱 7 [Dekiru Neko wa Kyō mo Yūutsu 7]

By: Hitsuji Yamada

4.42

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

ONE COOL CAT Remember that little kitten that Yukichi and Yume found? Well, after his loving fam… read more

Similar categories in Hitsuji Yamada's デキる猫は今日も憂鬱 7 [Dekiru Neko wa Kyō mo Yūutsu 7] book and Sifton Tracey Anipare's Yume

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • japan

18 must-read fiction books like Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare

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Hell Screen

Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

4.20

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Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Riku Onda

3.94

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How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1)

S. Jae-Jones

3.51

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A Crane Among Wolves

June Hur

4.03

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A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

Ava Reid

3.78

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Hafsah Faizal

3.57

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