8 Top short stories books like Vincentka vs garbage water by Helen Oyeyemi

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Vincentka vs garbage water

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.38

Format: 3 pages, None

A chance meeting while waiting for a Prague tram and the gift of an ‘almost sister’… a seasonal sho…

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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

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2. The Gilda Stories

By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more

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3. The Cybernetic Tea Shop

By: Meredith Katz

3.90

Format: 205 pages, ebook

Clara Gutierrez is a highly-skilled technician specializing in the popular 'Raise' AI companions. H… read more

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4. Bearly a Lady

By: Cassandra Khaw

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

Zelda McCartney (almost) has it all: a badass superhero name, an awesome vampire roommate, and her … read more

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5. Her Scales Shine Like Music

By: Rajnar Vajra

3.81

Format: 320 pages,

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6. Dragon Pearl

By: Yoon Ha Lee

4.75

Format: 118 pages,

Space opera based on Korean mythology. A standalone middle grade novel starring Min, a teenage fox … read more

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7. Four Roads Cross (Craft Sequence, #5)

By: Max Gladstone

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Hardcover

The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and… read more

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8. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

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"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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9. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

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"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

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10. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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11. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

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  • short stories
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

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12. 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
"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

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13. Light from Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

4.06

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more

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"Lindsey Stirling?"

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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14. Tiger Honor (Thousand Worlds, #2)

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Sebin, a young tiger spirit from the Juhwang Clan, wants nothing more than to join the Thousand Wor… read more

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15. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

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16. Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3)

By: C.L. Polk

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, ro… read more

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17. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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18. Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)

By: C.L. Polk

3.87

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigu… read more

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19. Dead Country (The Craft Wars, #1)

By: Max Gladstone

4.17

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

Since her village chased her out with pitchforks, Tara Abernathy has resurrected gods, pulled down … read more

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20. In the Watchful City

By: S. Qiouyi Lu

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the Watchful City explores borders, power, diaspora, and transformation in an Asian-inspired mos… read more

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  • short stories
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21. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.00

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more

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"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

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22. The Monsters We Defy

By: Leslye Penelope

4.12

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to … read more

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23. The Bone Shard War (The Drowning Empire, #3)

By: Andrea Stewart

3.94

Format: 611 pages, Hardcover

The Bone Shard War is the epic finale to the unmissable, action-packed and magic-laced Drowning Emp… read more

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24. The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

By: Andrea Stewart

4.08

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Andrea Stewart returns with The Bone Shard Emperor, the second installment of this unmissable, act… read more

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25. Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022

By: Lynne M. Thomas

4.17

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

The November/December 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction b… read more

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  • short stories
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26. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.18

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more

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  • short stories
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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27. Fox Snare (Thousand Worlds, #3)

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.99

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a third space opera starring Korean animal spirits by Yoo… read more

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28. Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (Dragons and Blades, #2)

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.16

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the critically acclaimed Dominion of the Fallen trilogy comes a sparkling new ro… read more

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29. Vincentka vs garbage water

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.38

Format: 3 pages, None

A chance meeting while waiting for a Prague tram and the gift of an ‘almost sister’… a seasonal sho… read more

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  • short stories
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30. The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper

By: A.J. Fitzwater

3.84

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Dapper. Lesbian. Capybara. Pirate. Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs… read more

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  • short stories
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31. Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 144, May 2022

By: John Joseph Adams

3.77

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

TABLE OF CONTENTS Issue 144, May 2022 FROM THE EDITOR – “Editorial: May 2022” by John Joseph A… read more

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15 Top high fantasy books like The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2) by Andrea Stewart

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Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Hannah Kaner

3.90

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Fonda Lee

3.90

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Richard Swan

4.01

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