15 Best science fiction books like The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by P. Djèlí Clark

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The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.34

Format: 13 pages, ebook

Fireside Magazine February 2018 Nebula Winner, Best Short Story in 2018

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by P. Djèlí Clark , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

By: Patricia A. McKillip

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Sixteen when a baby is brought to her to raise, Sybel has grown up on Eld Mountain. Her only playma… read more

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2. Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage

By: Alix E. Harrow

4.42

Format: None pages, ebook

Original Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Novelette || Oona's blood is a river delta blending east and… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

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3. Baba Yaga's Assistant

By: Emily Carroll , Marika McCoola

3.88

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

ASSISTANT WANTED ASAP Must have skills in hauling, obeying orders, cooking, and cleaning. Magical … read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's Baba Yaga's Assistant book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves."

-Emily Carroll, Baba Yaga's Assistant

4. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Elric, #2)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Leaving his cousin Yrkoon sitting as regent upon the Ruby Throne of Melnibone, leaving his cousin C… read more

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5. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

By: Philip K. Dick

3.65

Format: 192 pages, ebook

He awoke--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Gre… read more

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6. Flight to Canada

By: Ishmael Reed

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye view of the Civil War. Three slaves infe… read more

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7. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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8. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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9. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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10. Carmilla: The First Vampire

By: Amy Chu

3.40

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1… read more

Similar categories in Amy Chu's Carmilla: The First Vampire book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • paranormal
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11. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a … read more

Similar categories in Django Wexler's How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

By: Justina Ireland

4.16

Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition

The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After… read more

Similar categories in Justina Ireland's Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • historical
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Daniel Redfern laughs, the first real laugh I've ever heard from him, and I am put out. I am much funnier than Katherine. - Jane"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

"Things were good, and by the time we ended up in Denver we were sharing more than just stories. Unlike so much else in our lives, it felt... easy. I guess falling for someone always is. It's the stay…"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

"You're a heartbreaker, Katherine Devereaux." "That has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them," I say, blowing on my coffee before sipping it. There's chicory in the brew and I drink it…"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

Cover of Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 by Jason Sizemore

13. Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

By: Jason Sizemore

4.49

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-b… read more

Similar categories in Jason Sizemore's Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"I’m not a natural rule-follower. I roll through stop signs, I swear in public, I lie on online personality tests so I get the answers I want (Hermione, Arya Stark, Jo March)."

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"He took The Runaway Prince home and renewed it twice online, at which point a gray pop-up box that looks like an emissary from 1995 tells you, “the renewal limit for this item has been reached."

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"The boy returned at ten-thirty on a Tuesday morning. It’s official library policy to report truants to the high school, because the school board felt we were becoming 'a haven for unsupervised and il…"

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"God save me from the yearners. The insatiable, the inconsolable, the ones who chafe and claw against the edges of the world. No book can save them. (That’s a lie. There are Books potent enough to sav…"

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

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14. The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1

By: G. Willow Wilson

4.21

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Hugo- and World Fantasy Award–winning writer G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel, Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy… read more

Similar categories in G. Willow Wilson's The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1 book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Open House on Haunted Hill

By: John Wiswell

4.14

Format: 13 pages, ebook

Author’s Note: At the World Fantasy Convention in 2018, I went to dinner with some lovely people wh… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Open House on Haunted Hill book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. The Monsters We Defy

By: Leslye Penelope

4.12

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to … read more

Similar categories in Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • paranormal
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17. The Paper Menagerie

By: Ken Liu

4.58

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Ken Liu's incredible story "Paper Menagerie" just became the first work of fiction to win all three… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"She told me about American men who wanted Asian wives. If I can cook, clean, and take care of my American husband, he'll give me a good life. It was the only hope I had. And that was how I got into t…"

-Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie

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18. Two Truths and a Lie

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.79

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Two Truths and a Lie book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."

-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie

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19. Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The truth is never skin deep.   It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City… read more

Similar categories in Kellye Garrett's Missing White Woman book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • fiction
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20. The River Judge

By: S.L. Huang

4.01

Format: 42 pages, ebook

In this prequel novelette to the critically acclaimed The Water Outlaws, nine-year-old Li Li is int… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's The River Judge book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. When Jackals Storm the Walls (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #5)

By: Bradley P. Beaulieu

4.16

Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth book in The Song of the Shattered Sands series--an epic fantasy with a desert setting, fi… read more

Similar categories in Bradley P. Beaulieu's When Jackals Storm the Walls (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #5) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. A Veil of Spears (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #3)

By: Bradley P. Beaulieu

4.22

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

The third book in The Song of Shattered Sands series—an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled … read more

Similar categories in Bradley P. Beaulieu's A Veil of Spears (The Song of the Shattered Sands, #3) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Well-Fed Companion by Congyun "Mu Ming" Gu

23. A Well-Fed Companion

By: Congyun "Mu Ming" Gu

3.38

Format: 36 pages, ebook

In a future where human souls take the form of animal companions, Hairuo struggles to keep her cat … read more

Similar categories in Congyun "Mu Ming" Gu's A Well-Fed Companion book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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24. Nine Billion Turing Tests

By: Chris Willrich

3.89

Format: 44 pages, ebook

In a post-nuclear event Silicon Valley, a man grieving the loss of his wife struggles to find comfo… read more

Similar categories in Chris Willrich's Nine Billion Turing Tests book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of You Don't Belong Where You Don't Belong by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

25. You Don't Belong Where You Don't Belong

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.49

Format: 25 pages, ebook

With her friends vanishing and her home planet of Ayeshij crushed under the weight of occupation, g… read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's You Don't Belong Where You Don't Belong book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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26. Median

By: Kelly Robson

3.69

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A professional caregiver’s commute takes an unsettling detour when car trouble forces her to pull o… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Robson's Median book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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27. The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.34

Format: 13 pages, ebook

Fireside Magazine February 2018 Nebula Winner, Best Short Story in 2018 read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • science fiction fantasy
  • alternate history
  • short stories
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer

28. The Year Without Sunshine

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.23

Format: 35 pages, ebook

Hugo Voter Packet edition. read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's The Year Without Sunshine book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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29. In the Moon's House (Lady Astronaut)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.95

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

A new Lady Astronaut story! Dawn struggles to fit in with the rest of her team--the backup crew for… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's In the Moon's House (Lady Astronaut) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • alternate history
  • short stories
  • historical fiction

30. Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.04

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

A tour guide leads virtual reality "experiences" for tourists who want to know what it's like to be… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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31. The Alice Run

By: Nancy Kress

3.69

Format: 35 pages, ebook

A comatose patient undergoes an experimental procedure that uses favorite childhood stories to pull… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Kress's The Alice Run book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington

  • science fiction
  • short stories

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Emily Carroll , Marika McCoola

3.88

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Nghi Vo

4.24

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Rivers Solomon

3.78

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4.34

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Ultimate Invasion

Jonathan Hickman

3.68

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Patrick Horvath

4.21

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3.78

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