7 must-read science fiction fantasy books like Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri

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Homesick: Stories

By: Nino Cipri

4.08

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme o…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, Annie Wu

1. The Refrigerator Monologues

By: Catherynne M. Valente , Annie Wu

4.05

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women i… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Refrigerator Monologues book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

"Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy. "

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

"Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

"Falling in love is embarrassing. It is not hardcore. It is not part of the scene."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

Cover of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Jericho Brown, None, Chen Chen

2. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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3. The Grief Keeper

By: Alexandra Villasante

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Putnam has acquired Alex Villasante's The Grief Keeper, about sisters Marisol and Gabriella Morales… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

4. Archivist Wasp

By: Nicole Kornher-Stace

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wasp's job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate a… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Kornher-Stace's Archivist Wasp book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

5. Coffee Boy

By: Austin Chant

4.32

Format: 80 pages, ebook

After graduation, Kieran expected to go straight into a career of flipping burgers--only to be offe… read more

Similar categories in Austin Chant's Coffee Boy book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

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6. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

7. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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8. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

9. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

10. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Cover of Open Throat by Henry Hoke

11. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily R. Austin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Interesting Facts about Space book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

Cover of The Seep by Chana Porter

13. The Seep

By: Chana Porter

3.66

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more

Similar categories in Chana Porter's The Seep book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Grief is happy memories."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"

-Chana Porter, The Seep

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14. Corps vivante

By: Julie Delporte

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

En 1990, Julie Delporte n’a encore jamais vu de butch, mais sa tante préférée chasse et fume le cig… read more

Similar categories in Julie Delporte's Corps vivante book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
"On entend dire que le sexe est bon pour la santé, mais la moitié du monde autour de moi a été violée."

-Julie Delporte, Corps vivante

Cover of The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southbourne, #2) by Tade Thompson

15. The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southbourne, #2)

By: Tade Thompson

3.60

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tade Thompson returns to his "bloody exploration of of identity and self in a changed world" (Publi… read more

Similar categories in Tade Thompson's The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southbourne, #2) book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) by Micaiah Johnson

16. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

By: Micaiah Johnson

4.15

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more

Similar categories in Micaiah Johnson's Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."

-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Cover of Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) by Emily Tesh

17. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado

18. The Low, Low Woods

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.95

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search fo… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's The Low, Low Woods book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. Darryl

By: Jackie Ess

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Ess's Darryl book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

Cover of Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin  Starling

20. Last to Leave the Room

By: Caitlin Starling

3.51

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from the acclaimed author of The Death of Jane Lawr… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's Last to Leave the Room book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker

21. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

By: Sarah Pinsker

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn reader… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Fragile Animals by Genevieve Jagger

22. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

23. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of In Universes by Emet North

24. 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 Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

25. Friday Black

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.05

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"We’re in How-It-Was class."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"Buy One Get One stops for no one."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

Cover of This Is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara

26. This Is Salvaged

By: Vauhini Vara

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more

Similar categories in Vauhini Vara's This Is Salvaged book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair by Lucy Knisley

27. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair

By: Lucy Knisley

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Library Binding

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Knisley's Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • adult
Cover of Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey  Wood

28. Bang Bang Bodhisattva

By: Aubrey Wood

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Someone wants trans girl hacker-for-hire Kiera Umehara in prison or dead—but for what? Failing to f… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Wood's Bang Bang Bodhisattva book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri

29. Homesick: Stories

By: Nino Cipri

4.08

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme o… read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Distant Gardens: Ten Stories of Exploration, Biodiversity, and Found Family by J.S.  Fields

30. Distant Gardens: Ten Stories of Exploration, Biodiversity, and Found Family

By: J.S. Fields

3.93

Format: 397 pages, Paperback

Rules were made to be broken. From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds whe… read more

Similar categories in J.S. Fields's Distant Gardens: Ten Stories of Exploration, Biodiversity, and Found Family book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad

31. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

By: Isabella Hammad

4.74

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative book and Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories

19 must-read fantasy books like Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri

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The Refrigerator Monologues

Catherynne M. Valente , Annie Wu

4.05

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Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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Lost in the Garden

Adam S. Leslie

3.73

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Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

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Elle Nash

3.95

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