17 must-read science fiction books like Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee

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Combustion Hour

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.43

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

This story is about the eschatology of shadow puppets.At the publisher's request, this title is bei…

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Cover of A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

1. A Dead Djinn in Cairo

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.66

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantm… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Everything That Isn't Winter

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.96

Format: None pages, ebook

Does a renewed world still have a place for those who only know how to destroy? While defending a t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
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3. A Kiss With Teeth

By: Max Gladstone

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

Vlad has grown distant from his wife. His son has trouble at school. And he has to keep his sharp t… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles

By: Kij Johnson

3.78

Format: None pages, ebook

The heroic quest of a single cat. When a fire destroys her home and scatters her colony, Small Cat … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. That Game We Played During the War

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.12

Format: None pages, ebook

The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

6. Anyway: Angie

By: Daniel José Older

4.31

Format: 517 pages, ebook

Free online fiction from tor.com. Reza's job has put her in the face of every kind of death. Thanks… read more

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7. A Cup of Salt Tears

By: Isabel Yap

3.71

Format: 234 pages,

Makino's mother taught her caution, showed her how to carve her name into cucumbers, and insisted t… read more

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8. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

By: Fumio Sasaki , None

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert; he's just a regular guy who was stressed at w… read more

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9. Cold Wind

By: Nicola Griffith

3.62

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"Cold Wind", by Nicola Griffith, is a dark fantasy tale about a woman who enters a Seattle bar on a… read more

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10. The Insects of Love

By: Genevieve Valentine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, ebook

The Insects of Love,by Genevieve Valentine, is a dream-like science fiction/fantasy puzzle about tw… read more

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11. As Good as New

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.47

Format: None pages, ebook

From the author of the Hugo-winning "Six Months, Three Days," a new wrinkle on the old story of thr… read more

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12. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)

By: Rebecca Thorne

3.82

Format: 388 pages, ebook

All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

13. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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14. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

Cover of Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) by L.M. Sagas

16. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)

By: L.M. Sagas

3.92

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space
  • fiction
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17. The Counterworld

By: James Bradley

2.51

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased as if he had never e… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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18. Grow

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.86

Format: 31 pages, ebook

For over 35 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpower… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3) by Carrie Vaughn

19. Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3)

By: Carrie Vaughn

4.27

Format: 24 pages, ebook

Graff isn’t quite human. His people move through the galaxy collecting memories and experiences, re… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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20. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

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21. The Splinter in the Sky

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) about a … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Splinter in the Sky book and Yoon Ha Lee's Combustion Hour

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. 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 Yoon Ha Lee's Combustion Hour

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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23. A Better Way of Saying

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.35

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A Better Way of Saying by Sarah Pinsker is a fantasy about a young man, who in 1915, is hired to sh… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's A Better Way of Saying book and Yoon Ha Lee's Combustion Hour

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. An Easy Job

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.99

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

An Easy Job is a short story from Carrie Vaughn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Kitty… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. #Selfcare

By: Annalee Newitz

3.54

Format: 30 pages, ebook

From the Lambda award-winning author of Autonomous comes Annalee Newitz's Tor.com Original short st… read more

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

26. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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27. The Sufficient Loss Protocol

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.41

Format: 29 pages, ebook

When an alien entity sneaks aboard a corporate spaceship, with no motive besides sabotaging the mis… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Sinew and Steel and What They Told (Graff, #2) by Carrie Vaughn

28. Sinew and Steel and What They Told (Graff, #2)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.85

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Pilot Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirat… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space
  • fiction
Cover of Yellow and the Perception of Reality by Maureen F. McHugh

29. Yellow and the Perception of Reality

By: Maureen F. McHugh

3.75

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee

30. Combustion Hour

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.43

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

This story is about the eschatology of shadow puppets.At the publisher's request, this title is bei… read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Combustion Hour book and Yoon Ha Lee's Combustion Hour

  • fairy tales
  • literary fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 205, October 2023 by Neil Clarke

31. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 205, October 2023

By: Neil Clarke

3.57

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

October 2023 issue (#205) contains: Original fiction by Suzanne Palmer ("Possibly Just About A C… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy

21 must-read fiction books like Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee

Transform Your Habits

A Dead Djinn in Cairo

P. Djèlí Clark

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Everything That Isn't Winter

Margaret Killjoy

3.96

Transform Your Habits

A Kiss With Teeth

Max Gladstone

4.21

The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles

Kij Johnson

3.78

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17 Top fiction books like Sinew and Steel and What They Told (Graff, #2) by Carrie Vaughn

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

Martha Wells

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Little Witch

M. Rickert

3.59

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