5 must-read short stories books like Mars by Asja Bakić

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Mars

By: Asja Bakić

3.85

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with makin…

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Cover of The State of the Art (Culture, #4) by Iain M. Banks

1. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,… read more

Similar categories in Iain M. Banks's The State of the Art (Culture, #4) book and Asja Bakić's Mars

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

2. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą

By: Bruno Schulz

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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3. The Ruined Map

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

4.09

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined M… read more

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4. Laika

By: Nick Abadzis

4.25

Format: None pages,

From the dog's point of view, follows the adventures of the dog sent into space by the Soviet Union. read more

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5. Mamut

By: Eva Baltasar

3.58

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Mamut book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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6. Permagel

By: Eva Baltasar

3.85

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Permagel és aquella part de la terra que no es desglaça mai i és la membrana que revesteix l’heroïn… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Permagel book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

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7. Disoriental

By: Négar Djavadi

4.21

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a young girl and her family, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history. Kimi… read more

Similar categories in Négar Djavadi's Disoriental book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"That's the tragedy of exile. Things, as well as people, still exist, but you have to pretend to think of them as dead."

-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental

"We had all hoped that a day would come when the five of us could live together again, free and without fear. But freedom is an illusion. The only thing that changes is the size of your prison."

-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental

"I was confronted by a world that I could see and touch but didn't know how to talk about. There were so many words and names that I just didn't have. Flowers, trees, birds, reptiles, organs. The word…"

-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental

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8. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

Similar categories in María Fernanda Ampuero's Pelea de gallos book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

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9. Yesterday

By: Juan Emar

3.55

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner. Over the course… read more

Similar categories in Juan Emar's Yesterday book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • fiction
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10. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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11. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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12. Days in the Caucasus

By: Banine

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Baku, 1905. Nascere in una famiglia scandalosamente ricca - il capostipite, Assadullah, nato contad… read more

Similar categories in Banine's Days in the Caucasus book and Asja Bakić's Mars

"Il est bon de croire ceux qui croient en vous."

-Banine, Days in the Caucasus

"S'il fallait croire les malveillants, on ne donnerait jamais la main à personne sauf à soi-même."

-Banine, Days in the Caucasus

"... comme la plupart des enfants, j'étais animiste et prêtais généreusement des âmes aux choses et aux plantes. Pour moi, des objets, inanimés pour d'autres, se peuplaient de sentiments et je courais…"

-Banine, Days in the Caucasus

"Мне вновь придется вернуться назад, прошлое про-должает удивлять меня, воспитанную одновременно в восточных, немецких и русских традициях. Мечтательная, нелюдимая, с дурным характером – все это я. По…"

-Banine, Days in the Caucasus

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13. 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 Asja Bakić's Mars

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Tierra fresca de su tumba by Giovanna Rivero

14. Tierra fresca de su tumba

By: Giovanna Rivero

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more

Similar categories in Giovanna Rivero's Tierra fresca de su tumba book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"

-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba

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15. The Naked Woman

By: Armonía Somers

3.80

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

When The Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be resp… read more

Similar categories in Armonía Somers's The Naked Woman book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
"—No lo sé exactamente —respondió ella—. Ven, toca, estoy desnuda. Tomé mi libertad y salí. He dejado los códigos atrás, las zarzas me arañaron por eso. El bosque me lanzó el aliento a la cara, la ser…"

-Armonía Somers, The Naked Woman

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16. little scratch

By: Rebecca Watson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Watson's little scratch book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • 21st century
  • feminism
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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17. Winter Love

By: Han Suyin

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her … read more

Similar categories in Han Suyin's Winter Love book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people’s rooms,…"

-Han Suyin, Winter Love

Cover of A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

18. A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.23

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a new YA fantasy duology from a bestselling genre-expanding master, about a teena… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1) book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) by Olivia Waite

19. The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3)

By: Olivia Waite

3.71

Format: 384 pages, ebook

It’s not a crime to steal a heart... Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. Aft… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Waite's The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • fiction
Cover of Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius

20. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

By: Kathryn Olivarius

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immun… read more

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21. Mars

By: Asja Bakić

3.85

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with makin… read more

Similar categories in Asja Bakić's Mars book and Asja Bakić's Mars

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • feminism
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 21st century
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction

16 must-read fiction books like Mars by Asja Bakić

Transform Your Habits

The State of the Art (Culture, #4)

Iain M. Banks

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Mamut

Eva Baltasar

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Permagel

Eva Baltasar

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Disoriental

Négar Djavadi

4.21

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16 must-read fiction books like The Naked Woman by Armonía Somers

Transform Your Habits

Éste es el mar

Mariana Enríquez

2.90

Transform Your Habits

Todo lo que no te pude decir

Cristina Peri Rossi

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Nefando

Mónica Ojeda

4.11

Transform Your Habits

La máquina de pensar en Gladys

Mario Levrero

3.75

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