11 Best science fiction books like The Nobodies by Alanna Schubach

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The Nobodies

By: Alanna Schubach

3.81

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes I wondered if I imagined it, said Nina. But deep down I knew I didn't. Jess said, We d…

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1. 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 Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • 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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2. The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Min's The Fetishist book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • 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

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4. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langan's A Better World book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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5. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Elliott's And Then She Fell book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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6. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's Exordia book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. Self-Portrait with Nothing

By: Aimee Pokwatka

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian’s fron… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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8. Daphne

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Daphne book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fiction
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9. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

Similar categories in Emi Nietfeld's Acceptance: A Memoir book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

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10. The Thing in the Snow

By: Sean Adams

3.34

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel—equal p… read more

Similar categories in Sean Adams's The Thing in the Snow book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Light Years From Home

By: Mike Chen

3.55

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. Evie Shao and her sister, K… read more

Similar categories in Mike Chen's Light Years From Home book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. What We Fed to the Manticore

By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

4.11

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur… read more

Similar categories in Talia Lakshmi Kolluri's What We Fed to the Manticore book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Work Wife

By: Alison B. Hart

3.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Alison B. Hart's The Work Wife book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

Similar categories in Emet North's In Universes book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1) by Kritika H. Rao

16. The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1)

By: Kritika H. Rao

3.59

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

Enter a lush world of cataclysmic storms, planet-wide jungles, floating cities and devastating magi… read more

Similar categories in Kritika H. Rao's The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1) book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Shore

By: Katie Runde

3.51

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight… read more

Similar categories in Katie Runde's The Shore book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. It Rides a Pale Horse

By: Andy Marino

3.39

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From a new star in horror fiction comes a terrifying novel of obsession, greed, and the shocking ac… read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's It Rides a Pale Horse book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. Follow Me to Ground

By: Sue Rainsford

3.54

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that cu… read more

Similar categories in Sue Rainsford's Follow Me to Ground book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's Assassins Anonymous book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fiction
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

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21. Please Report Your Bug Here

By: Josh Riedel

3.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a… read more

Similar categories in Josh Riedel's Please Report Your Bug Here book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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22. Olympus, Texas

By: Stacey Swann

3.74

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

A bighearted debut with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Swann's Olympus, Texas book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Being family just means we don't have the safety of fences between us."

-Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

"...those absent can feel more present, do more damage, than any warm body in the room."

-Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

"It's much easier to break a thing that has already been broken once. Mending rarely makes it stronger."

-Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

"Our reactions to most things are muddier than we admit. Yours don't have to be all good or all evil. They just are what they are. [Cole Doherty, to June Briscoe]"

-Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

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23. The Four Humors

By: Mina Seckin

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving … read more

Similar categories in Mina Seckin's The Four Humors book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Rio's Graveyard Shift book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fiction
Cover of Mother in the Dark by Kayla Maiuri

25. Mother in the Dark

By: Kayla Maiuri

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. Whe… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Maiuri's Mother in the Dark book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Honeybee Emeralds by Amy Tector

26. The Honeybee Emeralds

By: Amy Tector

3.95

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Alice Ahmadi has never been certain of where she belongs. When she discovers a famed emerald neckla… read more

Similar categories in Amy Tector's The Honeybee Emeralds book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Housebreaking by Colleen  Hubbard

27. Housebreaking

By: Colleen Hubbard

3.52

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Following a long-standing feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her ho… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Hubbard's Housebreaking book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Nobodies by Alanna  Schubach

28. The Nobodies

By: Alanna Schubach

3.81

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes I wondered if I imagined it, said Nina. But deep down I knew I didn't. Jess said, We d… read more

Similar categories in Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Moth Girl by Heather Kamins

29. The Moth Girl

By: Heather Kamins

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Anna is a regular teenaged girl. She runs track with her best friend, gets good grades, and sometim… read more

Similar categories in Heather Kamins's The Moth Girl book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1) by Sara Raasch

30. The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1)

By: Sara Raasch

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky romcom where the gol… read more

Similar categories in Sara Raasch's The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1) book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of From Blood and Ash (Part 1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Blood and Ash, #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

31. From Blood and Ash (Part 1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Blood and Ash, #1)

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.48

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Captivating and action-packed, From Blood and Ash is a sexy, addictive, and unexpected fantasy perf… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Armentrout's From Blood and Ash (Part 1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Blood and Ash, #1) book and Alanna Schubach's The Nobodies

  • fantasy

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