14 best-selling science fiction books like Zed by Joanna Kavenna

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Zed

By: Joanna Kavenna

3.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life …

If you liked the science fiction plot in Zed by Joanna Kavenna , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. The Flight of the Silvers (Silvers #1)

By: Daniel Price

3.80

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This is an alternate cover edition for . Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and… read more

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2. City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Michael Moorcock

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You h… read more

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3. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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4. Harrow

By: Joy Williams

3.19

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary … read more

Similar categories in Joy Williams's Harrow book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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5. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

Similar categories in Hiron Ennes's Leech book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

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6. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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7. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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8. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

Similar categories in Sin Blaché's Prophet book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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9. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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10. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Parade

By: Dave Eggers

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far fro… read more

Similar categories in Dave Eggers's The Parade book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"No man should have to endure another man quoting poetry."

-Dave Eggers, The Parade

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12. Tell the Machine Goodnight

By: Katie Williams

3.46

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommenda… read more

Similar categories in Katie Williams's Tell the Machine Goodnight book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"Lo, Elliott was an artist. No crucible of hardship, no spiritual calling. Art was just something he was good at, therefore something he was praised for, therefore something he kept doing."

-Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

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13. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

14. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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15. The Garden of Time

By: J.G. Ballard

4.05

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

None read more

Similar categories in J.G. Ballard's The Garden of Time book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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16. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

Similar categories in Keanu Reeves's The Book of Elsewhere book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Femlandia

By: Christina Dalcher

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A chilling look into an alternate near future where a woman and her daughter seek refuge in a women… read more

Similar categories in Christina Dalcher's Femlandia book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"Curiosity is what we need if we want to know what's real, terrifying or not."

-Christina Dalcher, Femlandia

"Choice is such a tricky concept, maybe a little like freedom. Freedom is fine, until you add another word at the end of it all. You're free to do what you want... but. Sure, go ahead... unless. Some …"

-Christina Dalcher, Femlandia

"Women are shamed for this kind of curiosity, cursed for its devastating, world-ruining effects. Much more than men, I think, as I feel the cool metal of the doorknob in my fist. Where are the Bible s…"

-Christina Dalcher, Femlandia

Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

18. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Cox's Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • audiobook
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19. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Zed by Joanna Kavenna

20. Zed

By: Joanna Kavenna

3.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Kavenna's Zed book and Joanna Kavenna's Zed

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Absolution (Southern Reach, #4) by Jeff VanderMeer

21. Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.00

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s bl… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult

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