17 must-read fiction books like The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

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The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction

By: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

3.46

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

The first English translation of a cult science fiction favorite by Hemendra Kumar Roy, one of the …

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1. On Bullshit

By: Harry G. Frankfurt

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more

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2. Fuzzy Nation

By: John Scalzi

4.07

Format: None pages,

Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCo… read more

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3. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. 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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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

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6. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

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  • fiction
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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7. Monkey King

By: Wu Cheng'en

4.10

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a spa… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
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9. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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10. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Running Close to the Wind

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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14. Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more

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15. The Gospel According to the New World

By: Maryse Condé

3.02

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean au… read more

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  • fiction
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16. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

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17. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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18. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Gebroken wit

By: Astrid H. Roemer

3.58

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Oma Bee, Louise, Heli, Imker, Babs, Audi. Familienaam Vanta. In Gebroken Wit zijn ze aan elkaar ver… read more

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  • fiction
"In any case, all the memories of those years full of life will soon fade; disease doesn't spare your memories; they will die the very instant she does."

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

"Amazing how sunlight makes a landscape shine in shades of ocean blue, blood red, grass green, and everything in between. A tree with orange blossoms high in its canopy of leaves; blossoms that sway i…"

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

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20. No Edges: Swahili Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

3.87

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Swahili is the future. The first collection of Swahili literature of its kind, No Edges: Swahili St… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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21. The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction

By: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

3.46

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

The first English translation of a cult science fiction favorite by Hemendra Kumar Roy, one of the … read more

Similar categories in Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay's The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction book and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay's The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction

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  • short stories
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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

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4.10

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3.34

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4.08

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4.05

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4.05

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