29 Top fiction books like In the Empty Quarter by G. Willow Wilson

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In the Empty Quarter

By: G. Willow Wilson

3.79

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s journey to self-discovery collides with the ancient legends of the Rubʿ al-Khali desert i…

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1. The Strange Talent of Luther Strode

By: Justin Jordan , Tradd Moore , Felipe Sobreiro

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Luther Strode is just your average geek - until he sends for an exercise course from the back of an… read more

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2. Love the Way You Lie (House of Crows, #4)

By: Lisa Unger

4.04

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

What's drawn four damaged people back to haunted land? The answer could destroy them all in a gripp… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Love the Way You Lie (House of Crows, #4) book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. The Lover

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.80

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, i… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Lover book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. Bloody Summer

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.70

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What do children know that adults can’t begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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7. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. Murder at the Royal Ruby

By: Nita Prose

3.17

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

The curtain rises, and the chandelier falls—taking the star of the show down with it. An ambitious … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Signal Moon: A Short Story

By: Kate Quinn

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition

A short story about an impossible connection across two centuries that could make the difference be… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It fucking matters. What I do, our kind, signal technicians—it descends straight from you guys."

-Kate Quinn, Signal Moon: A Short Story

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10. Slot Machine Fever Dreams

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.14

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s called Sin City for a reason. Dark secrets emerge when a young bartender meets a stranger on a… read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's Slot Machine Fever Dreams book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Mosquito

By: B.A. Paris

3.63

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

After his marriage fails, he hopes a vacation in France will relax and restore him. But fate has so… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Just a Girl

By: Alyssa Cole

3.49

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

Social media can be a dangerous game. A young woman’s world teeters on the verge of implosion when … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Visit (Black Stars, #1)

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.95

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a … read more

Similar categories in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Visit (Black Stars, #1) book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. The Tiger Came to the Mountains

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexico, 1917. On a farm during the violent tumult of revolution, a more immediate threat prowls in … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Tiger Came to the Mountains book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Cleaners (Faraway Collection)

By: Ken Liu

3.48

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Touch the past or wash it away? Two sisters have a choice in this unforgettable short story of ever… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.78

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

By fate and fire, a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary Afr… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2) book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

3.63

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman posing as a medium who can channel the spirit world comes face to face with the truth in th… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4) book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She tried to lie back down, but her heart took a while to slow, and when it did, she found herself lying awake. She was exhausted, but her body was restless, humming like the wires that webbed the sk…"

-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

"He looked disheveled, still in his clothes, and there was a packet of papers in his hands. She moved to the side of the hall, giving him ample room to pass to the earth closet, but he was still watch…"

-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

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18. The Wedding Setup: A Short Story

By: Sonali Dev

3.78

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

From USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev comes a heartfelt short story about one woman’s journe… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection)

By: Nic Stone

3.47

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

Two anxious young lovers lost in the woods. A beckoning mansion in a dark clearing. A short modern-… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Hazel and Gray (Faraway Collection) book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Zikora

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.27

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a mov… read more

Similar categories in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Zikora book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You can’t nice your way to being loved."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

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21. The Heart of a Mother

By: Julie Clark

3.67

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

A fateful decision from the past haunts a wealthy Californian. Desperate to make things right, she … read more

Similar categories in Julie Clark's The Heart of a Mother book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Backbone of the World

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.93

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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23. The Prince and the Troll (Faraway Collection)

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.26

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

A charming everyman and a mysterious something-under-the-bridge cross paths in a short fairy tale b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Shortest Day

By: Colm Tóibín

3.78

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

In Ireland, a man of reason is drawn to a true mystery older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge in th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But did they have gods? Or believe in an afterlife?"

-Colm Tóibín, The Shortest Day

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25. Themes and Variations

By: David Sedaris

4.21

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In this Kindle-exclusive essay, international bestselling humor writer David Sedaris shares the rew… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of The Princess Game (Faraway Collection) by Soman Chainani

26. The Princess Game (Faraway Collection)

By: Soman Chainani

3.51

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no happy endings for the Princesses of Chaminade High in this short, twisty tale of teena… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wickeds (Faraway Collection) by Gayle Forman

27. The Wickeds (Faraway Collection)

By: Gayle Forman

3.67

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

The reviled villainesses of Snow White, Cinderella, and Rapunzel team up to set the record straight… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. A Scandal in Brooklyn

By: Lauren Wilkinson

3.11

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

A classic Holmesian detective untangles a locked-room mystery with a very modern twist in this veno… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Parsnips in Love by Porochista Khakpour

29. Parsnips in Love

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.57

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning Iranian author Porochista Khakpour comes a tender fable about the shapes love ta… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Empty Quarter by G. Willow Wilson

30. In the Empty Quarter

By: G. Willow Wilson

3.79

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s journey to self-discovery collides with the ancient legends of the Rubʿ al-Khali desert i… read more

Similar categories in G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter book and G. Willow Wilson's In the Empty Quarter

  • historical fantasy
  • adult
  • supernatural
  • religion
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask For Mercy Season One: The Key To Forever (comiXology Originals) by Richard Starkings

31. Ask For Mercy Season One: The Key To Forever (comiXology Originals)

By: Richard Starkings

3.68

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

An action-packed and artistically stunning dark fantasy story from Elephantmen creator, Richard Sta… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

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