7 must-read fantasy books like Subdivision by J. Robert Lennon

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Subdivision

By: J. Robert Lennon

3.77

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

A heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting …

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1. Get in Trouble

By: Kelly Link

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."

-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

"Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb."

-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

"The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a …"

-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

"Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, sa…"

-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

2. How to Behave in a Crowd

By: Camille Bordas

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

An absorbing, darkly comedic novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks … read more

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3. Dead On Arrival

By: Matt Richtel

4.10

Format: None pages, ebook

A mysterious disorder threatens to destroy the world in this high-concept thriller from Pulitzer Pr… read more

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4. Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

3.88

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

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5. Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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6. Our Country Friends

By: Gary Shteyngart

3.21

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Russian was a language built around the exhalation of warmth and pain...."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

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7. Gods of Want: Stories

By: K-Ming Chang

3.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"

-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

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8. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • adult
  • fiction
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9. The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Min's The Fetishist book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Dayswork

By: Chris Bachelder

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. 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 J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

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15. An Island

By: Karen Jennings

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with … read more

Similar categories in Karen Jennings's An Island book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Intimacies

By: Katie Kitamura

3.65

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"

-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

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17. Big Time

By: Ben H. Winters

3.43

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Ben Winters, whom critics attest  "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

By: Debra Magpie Earling

3.66

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges pr… read more

Similar categories in Debra Magpie Earling's The Lost Journals of Sacajewea book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"Do not trust anyone who tells you there is only one story. If there were only one story or one way of seeing things all stories would die."

-Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

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19. 2 A.M. in Little America

By: Ken Kalfus

3.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Counterweight

By: Djuna

3.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. The Shamshine Blind

By: Paz Pardo

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon an… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Blessed Water (Sister Holiday Mystery #2)

By: Margot Douaihy

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, an… read more

Similar categories in Margot Douaihy's Blessed Water (Sister Holiday Mystery #2) book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Libertie

By: Kaitlyn Greenidge

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns w… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Being a mother means being someone's God, if only briefly."

-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie

"If I burn her words, I will be free of whatever she wants of me. Instead I stuffed the papers back in my drawer."

-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie

"And I decided when you were born that I would hide my heart from you, because I worried I would love you into nervous oblivion."

-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie

"The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another."

-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie

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24. Edenville

By: Sam Rebelein

3.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror … read more

Similar categories in Sam Rebelein's Edenville book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. The Electric Hotel

By: Dominic Smith

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dominic Smith’s The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Auburn Conference

By: Tom Piazza

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic yo… read more

Similar categories in Tom Piazza's The Auburn Conference book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. My Volcano

By: John Elizabeth Stintzi

3.54

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock is spotted by a jogger growing from the Central Park Reservoi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"His Farsi laden with a mat of nostalgia"

-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

"And so here - after then, and after that - we are"

-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

"In his little apartment, alone, Ash set his cocktail of alarms"

-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

"On that page, they began to write a new book - a book without research. A book about a mountain. A volcano . Their volcano."

-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

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28. Subdivision

By: J. Robert Lennon

3.77

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

A heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting … read more

Similar categories in J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • unfinished
  • adult
  • fiction
  • dark
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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29. In Concrete

By: Anne Garréta

3.31

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Garreta’s first new novel in a decade follows two young sisters who are dragged into one adventure … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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30. Nervous System

By: Lina Meruane

3.35

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

An electrifying novel about illness, displacement, and what holds us together, by the author of See… read more

Similar categories in Lina Meruane's Nervous System book and J. Robert Lennon's Subdivision

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Confession of Copeland Cane

By: Keenan Norris

3.71

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive… H… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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