The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction
By: Tarun K. Saint
3.28
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Singular visions of the future that will thrill, amuse, startle and intrigue On an ordinary mor…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. 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
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3. Human Acts
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more
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- fiction
4. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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- short stories
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6. She Will Build Him a City
By: Raj Kamal Jha
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As night falls in Delhi, a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Now grown up… read more
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- india
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7. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
By: Ann Leckie
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more
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8. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more
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9. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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- fiction
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
10. Silence
By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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11. The Moor's Last Sigh
By: Salman Rushdie
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the… read more
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12. Third Eye
By: Felicia Day
4.14
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Once upon a time, in the magical land of San Francisco, there lived a not-so-ordinary girl named La… read more
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13. Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
3.23
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more
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"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
14. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.03
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more
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"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
15. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.02
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more
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- fantasy
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
16. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
17. Untethered Sky
By: Fonda Lee
3.90
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more
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- short stories
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- science fiction
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"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky
"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky
"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky
18. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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19. Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It
By: April Dunford
4.26
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
You know your product is awesome—but does anybody else? Forget everything you thought you knew abou… read more
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20. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
By: Wole Talabi
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning Nigerian author presents a mythic tale of disgruntled… read more
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- fantasy
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21. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
22. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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23. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
24. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
25. Everything the Light Touches
By: Janice Pariat
3.75
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious nov… read more
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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
26. Winter in Sokcho
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more
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- fiction
"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
27. The Return of Faraz Ali
By: Aamina Ahmad
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more
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- fiction
28. The Red Scholar's Wake
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just … read more
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29. Latitudes of Longing
By: Shubhangi Swarup
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a ma… read more
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- indian literature
- india
- fantasy
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"What is the purpose of belief if even god can't put the world back the way you worshipped it ?"-Shubhangi Swarup, Latitudes of Longing
30. Fair Trade (Liaden Universe, #24)
By: Sharon Lee
4.31
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW ENTRY IN THE LANDMARK LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIES Jethri Gobelyn has risen far: from despised young… read more
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31. The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction
By: Tarun K. Saint
3.28
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Singular visions of the future that will thrill, amuse, startle and intrigue On an ordinary mor… read more
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