14 Best science fiction books like Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders

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Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.05

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

Before the success of her debut SF-and-fantasy novel All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

1. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more

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Cover of Loosed upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction by John Joseph Adams, Vandana Singh, Seanan McGuire, Gregory Benford, Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Jim Shepard, Margaret Atwood, Alan Dean Foster, Tobias S. Buckell, Nancy Kress, Kim Stanley Robinson, Chen Qiufan, Chris Bachelder, Sean McMullen, Cat Sparks, Karl Schroeder, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jason Gurley, None, Craig DeLancey, None, None, None, None, None, None

2. Loosed upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction

By: John Joseph Adams , Vandana Singh , Seanan McGuire , Gregory Benford , Ken Liu , Charlie Jane Anders , Jim Shepard , Margaret Atwood , Alan Dean Foster , Tobias S. Buckell , Nancy Kress , Kim Stanley Robinson , Chen Qiufan , Chris Bachelder , Sean McMullen , Cat Sparks , Karl Schroeder , Paolo Bacigalupi , Jason Gurley , None , Craig DeLancey , None , None , None , None , None , None

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Collected by the editor of the award-winning Lightspeed magazine, one of the first anthologies of c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, Edward Gorey

3. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

By: T.S. Eliot , Edward Gorey

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3) by Seanan McGuire

4. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.85

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more

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  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

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5. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

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  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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6. Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.03

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a be… read more

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  • fantasy
  • short stories
  • magic
  • fiction
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7. Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciou… read more

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  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"You're not tall, but you walk like you are."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"New things are the best kind of magic there is."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"I have a reservoir filled with lightning under my heart."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"When a scientist speaks, it behooves the ordinary soul to listen."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

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8. In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.92

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible … read more

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  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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10. Gods of Want: Stories

By: K-Ming Chang

3.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"

-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

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11. Blue Skies

By: T.C. Boyle

3.81

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary A… read more

Similar categories in T.C. Boyle's Blue Skies book and Charlie Jane Anders's Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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12. The Infinity Particle

By: Wendy Xu

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous graphic novel by Wendy Xu, co-creator of the award-winning Mooncakes, a young inve… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Far Sector

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.23

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

For the past six months, newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein has been protecting the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The world isn't fair -- but you can want it to be. That's a kind of hunger, too."

-N.K. Jemisin, Far Sector

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14. Upright Women Wanted

By: Sarah Gailey

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Just because he needed killing doesn't mean I can sleep easy."

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"You really believe all that? About how there’s only one end in sight for people like you?"

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she."

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the on…"

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

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15. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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16. The Quiet Room (Rabbits, #2)

By: Terry Miles

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The lore and legends around the underground game known as Rabbits gain new dimensions in this twist… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.16

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather … read more

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  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

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18. 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

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  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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19. The Keeper's Six

By: Kate Elliott

3.63

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Kate Elliott's action-packed The Keeper's Six features a world-hopping, bad-ass, spell-slinging mot… read more

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  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Here and Now and Then

By: Mike Chen

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere—and any-when…Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working… read more

Similar categories in Mike Chen's Here and Now and Then book and Charlie Jane Anders's Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

  • time travel
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I’m fourteen. I know how the world works."

-Mike Chen, Here and Now and Then

"We’re all different people all through our lives, but that’s okay, as long as you remember all the people you used to be."

-Mike Chen, Here and Now and Then

Cover of Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1) by Maiga Doocy

21. Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)

By: Maiga Doocy

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Desperate to undo the curse binding them to each other, an impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly … read more

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  • queer
  • magic
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
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22. On Earth as It Is on Television

By: Emily Jane

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane’s novel of the sudde… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch

23. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

By: Gretchen McCulloch

4.05

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. … read more

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"Irony is a linguistic trust fall."

-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

"Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project."

-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

"The appeal of having friends in your pocket is unlikely to go away."

-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

"We've had the right to adapt longer than we've had the right to prevent copying."

-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Cover of Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5) by Seanan McGuire

24. Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

In the course of every great adventure there are multiple side-quests. All too often these go unrep… read more

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  • fantasy
  • short stories
  • magic
  • fiction
"All stories are weapons, and children’s stories are doubly so, for children have not yet learned how to be careful."

-Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds (Wayward Children, #4.5)

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25. Content Warning: Everything

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.94

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Content Warning: Everything book and Charlie Jane Anders's Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy

26. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Damian Duffy

3.99

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to #1 New York Times Bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E.… read more

Similar categories in Damian Duffy's Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation book and Charlie Jane Anders's Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of La bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono

27. La bastarda

By: Trifonia Melibea Obono

3.55

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

La protagonista, Okomo, una adolescente de etnia fang, atrapada en un sistema de valores que no le … read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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28. No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

By: Julian Aguon

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disast… read more

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29. Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

By: Eddie Ahn

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving … read more

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30. Made for You

By: Jenna Satterthwaite

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Hi. My name is Julia. I’m a Synth. And I’m here to find love… Synthetic woman Julia Walden was d… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders

31. Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.05

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

Before the success of her debut SF-and-fantasy novel All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's Six Months, Three Days, Five Others book and Charlie Jane Anders's Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

  • time travel
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

25 Top fiction books like Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders

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Loosed upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction

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4.08

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4.29

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Seanan McGuire

3.85

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3.87

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Ariana Harwicz

3.92

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2.77

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Niviaq Korneliussen

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