13 Top fiction books like Ripples by Wai Wai Pang

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Ripples

By: Wai Wai Pang

4.03

Format: 150 pages, Unknown Binding

A detective story, like if Twin Peaks was less scary and more bizarre in a cute way. And in Britain…

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Cover of Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus

1. Kitchen

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

Format: 296 pages,

Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Nimona by None

2. Nimona

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically accl… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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3. Through the Woods

By: Emily Carroll

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

4. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

5. No One Belongs Here More Than You

By: Miranda July

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more

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6. The World

By: Valentin Seiche

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An illustrated documentation of the memories from The World, during and after the great war between… read more

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7. Fair Play

By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more

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8. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • fiction
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

9. Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more

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10. The Guest Cat

By: Takashi Hiraide , Eric Selland

2.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the ac… read more

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11. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

12. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki

13. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.86

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
"Have faith in yourself to know what's right for you. Whatever answer you need, it's inside you somewhere."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Of course, I know there are LGBTQIA activists out there who fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this"

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you. It’s true that giving can be a part of love, but contrary to popular belief, your love should never take from you."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Cover of The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

14. The Memory Police

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.72

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more

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  • fiction
"No one can erase the stories!"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"Few people here have any need of novels"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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15. Thieves

By: Lucie Bryon

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
"I'm not just your friend when everything is going well. I'm your friend through the crappy times too."

-Lucie Bryon, Thieves

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16. Crushing

By: Sophie Burrows

3.86

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Life is full of connections – if you know how to make them.  Crushing  follows two people -- one de… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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17. Dragman

By: Steven Appleby

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Appleby comes a superhero epic like no other--an ordinary man gains superpowers by donning wom… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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18. A frog in the fall (and later on)

By: Linnea Sterte

4.59

Format: 338 pages, ebook

A young frog (hatched this spring) encounters two toads, who have captured the ghost of a Shungiku … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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19. Skip

By: Molly Mendoza

4.00

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A colorful, unpredictable postapocalyptic world comes alive in Skip, when two unlikely friends, Blo… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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20. Heat

By: Jean Wei

4.43

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

A naked, 8-foot fire-demon crash-lands in your field one hot summer night: what do you do? Well, if… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Ripples by Wai Wai Pang

21. Ripples

By: Wai Wai Pang

4.03

Format: 150 pages, Unknown Binding

A detective story, like if Twin Peaks was less scary and more bizarre in a cute way. And in Britain… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Last Chance to Find Duke by Shang Zhang

22. Last Chance to Find Duke

By: Shang Zhang

4.31

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Insect researcher No. 063 has one last chance to find "Duke,", a rare species of cricket whose chir… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics

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None

4.00

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Through the Woods

Emily Carroll

3.94

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

4.08

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The Magic Fish

Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

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Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Mona Awad

3.56

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3.72

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