6 must-read science fiction books like The Book of Dog by Lark Benobi

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The Book of Dog

By: Lark Benobi

3.91

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

It’s the night of the Yellow Puff-Ball Mushroom Cloud and a mysterious yellow fog is making its way…

"It was a town mostly populated with elderly John Wayne fans and their caregivers."

-Lark Benobi, The Book of Dog

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Book of Dog by Lark Benobi , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain, Gallic Books

1. The President's Hat

By: Antoine Laurain , Gallic Books

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eye… read more

Similar categories in Antoine Laurain's The President's Hat book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • humor
  • fiction

2. Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

By: Alissa Nutting

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are in… read more

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3. 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 Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

Similar categories in V.V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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7. Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)

By: Attica Locke

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and p… read more

Similar categories in Attica Locke's Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Chouette book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

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9. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Poor Deer book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

Cover of You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

10. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

Similar categories in Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

11. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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12. Wolf at the Table

By: Adam Rapp

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a … read more

Similar categories in Adam Rapp's Wolf at the Table book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Memory of Animals

By: Claire Fuller

3.61

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Un… read more

Similar categories in Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans."

-Claire Fuller, The Memory of Animals

Cover of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee

14. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

Similar categories in Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

16. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Bright Sword

By: Lev Grossman

4.06

Format: 673 pages, Hardcover

A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more

Similar categories in Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

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18. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Absolution (Southern Reach, #4) by Jeff VanderMeer

19. Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.00

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s bl… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Absolution (Southern Reach, #4) book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Mother Naked

By: Glen James Brown

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain t… read more

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Cover of The Book of Dog by Lark Benobi

21. The Book of Dog

By: Lark Benobi

3.91

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

It’s the night of the Yellow Puff-Ball Mushroom Cloud and a mysterious yellow fog is making its way… read more

Similar categories in Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog book and Lark Benobi's The Book of Dog

  • feminism
  • politics
  • humor
  • animals
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It was a town mostly populated with elderly John Wayne fans and their caregivers."

-Lark Benobi, The Book of Dog

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Antoine Laurain , Gallic Books

3.66

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Nghi Vo

4.24

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Brotherless Night

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Kate Atkinson

3.71

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