5 best-selling speculative fiction books like Ghost Species by James Bradley

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Ghost Species

By: James Bradley

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An exquisitely beautiful and deeply affecting exploration of connection and loss in an age of plane…

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Ghost Species by James Bradley , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Never Say Die (Alex Rider, #11) by Anthony Horowitz

1. Never Say Die (Alex Rider, #11)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.33

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Five weeks after the events of Scorpia Rising, Alex is living in San Francisco, slowly recovering f… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family by Cameron Bloom, Bradley Trevor Greive

2. Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

By: Cameron Bloom , Bradley Trevor Greive

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's ex… read more

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  • australia
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3. The Harp in the South

By: Ruth Park

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Paperback

Since it was first published in 1948, this compassionate novel has become a favourite with generati… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
Cover of Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz

4. Skeleton Key

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terror… read more

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  • fiction

5. Scorpia Rising

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Scorpia has dogged Alex Rider for most of his life. They killed his parents, they did their best to… read more

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6. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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7. The Kraken Wakes

By: John Wyndham

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

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8. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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9. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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10. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • novels
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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13. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • tasmania
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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14. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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15. All the Words We Know

By: Bruce Nash

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A wickedly funny and genuinely moving novel about memory, language and love, perfect for fans of Ri… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) by Margaret Hickey

16. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Merking

By: Fríða Ísberg

3.70

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Skáldsagan Merking er margradda verk sem fjallar um afstöðu og pólaríseringu, fordóma og samkennd. … read more

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  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cutters End (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1) by Margaret Hickey

18. Cutters End (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1)

By: Margaret Hickey

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterio… read more

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  • novels
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Black Water Sister

By: Zen Cho

3.86

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Ma… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe that was what true love meant: a bitterness that stayed on the tongue when everything else faded."

-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister

"What a thing a bad death was. It made a mythology that caught up in its wake old trees and young women alike, the violence of it reverberating through the years."

-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister

Cover of Nightshade (Alex Rider, #13) by Anthony Horowitz

20. Nightshade (Alex Rider, #13)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.45

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

Get ready for action, adrenaline and adventure in this explosive, brand new Alex Rider mission by b… read more

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  • fiction
"That wasn’t bad,"

-Anthony Horowitz, Nightshade (Alex Rider, #13)

"Don't be sorry. Our lives don't belong to us, so we can't complain if they're taken away."

-Anthony Horowitz, Nightshade (Alex Rider, #13)

"I sent a car to pick you up at school, Alex. I thought you might like a lift. I didn't expect a declaration of war."

-Anthony Horowitz, Nightshade (Alex Rider, #13)

"It’s easy enough to change your personality, to become evil. The trouble is, it stays with you. And it damages you."

-Anthony Horowitz, Nightshade (Alex Rider, #13)

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21. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

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  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What I Would Do to You by Georgia  Harper

23. What I Would Do to You

By: Georgia Harper

3.92

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

A near-future Australia. The death penalty is back. But if the victim’s family wants the perpetr… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Titanic Survivors Book Club by Timothy Schaffert

24. The Titanic Survivors Book Club

By: Timothy Schaffert

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose sur… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."

-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club

Cover of Ancestral Night (White Space, #1) by Elizabeth Bear

25. Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.79

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. She is wrong. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Rest,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I felt even more hollow than I had."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"Good thing for me you’re not a murderer."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I was raised in a clade. There is no real me."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

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26. The Caretaker

By: Gabriel Bergmoser

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

An isolated, empty ski resort in the off-season. A woman who doesn't want to be found. A man who ma… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
Cover of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

27. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Work by Bri Lee

28. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Four Seasons in Japan by Nick  Bradley

29. Four Seasons in Japan

By: Nick Bradley

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

Cover of Ghost Species by James  Bradley

30. Ghost Species

By: James Bradley

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An exquisitely beautiful and deeply affecting exploration of connection and loss in an age of plane… read more

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  • audiobook
  • dystopia
  • australia
  • fiction
  • climate change fiction
  • climate change
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • tasmania
  • science fiction
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31. The Honeyeater

By: Jessie Tu

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook

26 Top fiction books like Ghost Species by James Bradley

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Never Say Die (Alex Rider, #11)

Anthony Horowitz

4.33

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The Harp in the South

Ruth Park

4.27

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Skeleton Key

Anthony Horowitz

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The Kraken Wakes

John Wyndham

3.76

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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