7 must-read science fiction books like Red Dust, White Snow by Pan Huiting

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Red Dust, White Snow

By: Pan Huiting

3.07

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Who is to say dreams are insubstantial when whole lives can be lived in their pursuit? When an offi…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Red Dust, White Snow by Pan Huiting , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Spirits Abroad

By: Zen Cho

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more

Similar categories in Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

2. Autumn Story

By: Jill Barklem

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bad weather is on the way and the autumn crops are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of … read more

Similar categories in Jill Barklem's Autumn Story book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

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3. DallerGut Dream Department Store

By: Lee Mi-ye

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD|| In a mysterious town that lies h… read more

Similar categories in Lee Mi-ye's DallerGut Dream Department Store book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I don't think humans are some self-driving car racing toward the finish line. We must own our lives, start the engine ourselves, and sometimes put on brakes."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I believe there are two ways to love your life, Penny. The first is to work hard to change your life when you feel unsatisfied.' 'That seems about right.' Penny nods. 'The second option may look easi…"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

Cover of The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1) by Gabriela Romero Lacruz

4. The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

By: Gabriela Romero Lacruz

3.33

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

In a lush world inspired by the history and folklore of South America, a sweeping epic fantasy of c… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Romero Lacruz's The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1) book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I thought tinieblas were nothing but a story—just a word for shadows. Tales to scare children into obedience. Horror tales are inspired by reality."

-Gabriela Romero Lacruz, The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

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5. Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By: Malorie Blackman

4.53

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more

Similar categories in Malorie Blackman's Just Sayin': My Life In Words book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."

-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words

Cover of The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) by Hisashi Kashiwai

6. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more

Similar categories in Hisashi Kashiwai's The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

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7. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

Cover of The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1) by Sophie Kim

8. The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1)

By: Sophie Kim

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Kim's The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1) book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi

9. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

Similar categories in Emi Yagi's Diary of a Void book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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10. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Cover of Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

11. Bangkok Wakes to Rain

By: Pitchaya Sudbanthad

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A house in Bangkok is the confluence of lives shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. A m… read more

Similar categories in Pitchaya Sudbanthad's Bangkok Wakes to Rain book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"In Thai, to say sorry was to ask for punishment that wouldn't ordinarily be meted out."

-Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

"Pig owes her much more than she could ever pay back. It had felt much less burdensome to feel like she would always be the one to so generously give."

-Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

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12. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Incendiary (Hollow Crown, #1) by Zoraida Córdova

13. Incendiary (Hollow Crown, #1)

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.87

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

As a memory thief– the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria– Renata was used by the crown to… read more

Similar categories in Zoraida Córdova's Incendiary (Hollow Crown, #1) book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Floating Hotel

By: Grace Curtis

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery … read more

Similar categories in Grace Curtis's Floating Hotel book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Perilous Times

By: Thomas D. Lee

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polar… read more

Similar categories in Thomas D. Lee's Perilous Times book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Oi!' says the squirrel. 'Get your filthy hands off me! I'll fucking have you!"

-Thomas D. Lee, Perilous Times

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16. Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

By: Daisy Johnson

3.75

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impos… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Johnson's Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Frontier

By: Grace Curtis

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Saints and preachers, librarians and horse thieves, lawmakers and lawbreakers, and a crash-survivin… read more

Similar categories in Grace Curtis's Frontier book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change by Bee Wilson

18. The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

By: Bee Wilson

4.06

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

An award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats - and shows us how we… read more

Similar categories in Bee Wilson's The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
"But in most places, the new global diet has involved a narrowing down of what people eat. Our world contains around seven thousand edible crops, yet 95 per cent of what we eat comes from just thirty …"

-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

"Then I realised the very question I was asking was wrong. The whole point is that in the 1960s, there was no such thing as an average eater across most countries, just lots of specific and wildly div…"

-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

"A survey of more than three hundred international policymakers found that 90 per cent of them still believed that personal motivation – aka willpower – was a very strong cause of obesity.6 This is ab…"

-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

"It is only now that we can, following Khoury, speak of a Global Standard Eater, because it is only now that humans have come to eat in such startlingly similar ways. Perhaps the biggest change is in …"

-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

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19. Gifts

By: Laura Barnett

3.49

Format: 308 pages, ebook

TWELVE PEOPLE... TWELVE GIFTS... ONE CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER... Maddy runs the bookshop on Marke… read more

Similar categories in Laura Barnett's Gifts book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Weirn Books, Vol. 1: Be Wary of the Silent Woods (Volume 1) (The Weirn Books, 1) by Svetlana Chmakova

20. The Weirn Books, Vol. 1: Be Wary of the Silent Woods (Volume 1) (The Weirn Books, 1)

By: Svetlana Chmakova

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the Night Realm, vampires, shifters, weirns, and other night things passing for human prowl the … read more

Similar categories in Svetlana Chmakova's The Weirn Books, Vol. 1: Be Wary of the Silent Woods (Volume 1) (The Weirn Books, 1) book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fantasy
Cover of The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable

21. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Munroe Bergdorf

22. Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

By: Munroe Bergdorf

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioni… read more

Similar categories in Munroe Bergdorf's Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
"Everything is an attempt to flee if you can't love who you are."

-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

"You can't run away from yourself. The destination will always be you. I only stopped running away when I made myself into the home I no longer wanted to run away from. I wish I'd come to that realisa…"

-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

"Being conscious of our trauma, and recognising how it unavoidably manifests itself within our approach to romantic and platonic relations, skies is to strategise our connections. It helps us to it he…"

-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

"We all transition. It's what binds us, not what separates us. Be it through moving from childhood into adolescence, our sexuality, our gender, in our relationship with love, our racial identity or in…"

-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

Cover of Open Up by Thomas    Morris

23. Open Up

By: Thomas Morris

3.77

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Morris's Open Up book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Country Without Humans, Vol. 2 (The Country Without Humans, #2) by Iwatobineko

24. The Country Without Humans, Vol. 2 (The Country Without Humans, #2)

By: Iwatobineko

3.94

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS, BUT STILL ALONE After the catastrophe in the library, Teefa takes Shii to… read more

Similar categories in Iwatobineko's The Country Without Humans, Vol. 2 (The Country Without Humans, #2) book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher

25. Not for the Faint of Heart

By: Lex Croucher

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Beloved author Lex Croucher's second queer historical YA romance, with all the swoons, laughs, and … read more

Similar categories in Lex Croucher's Not for the Faint of Heart book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

26. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

Cover of The Phoenix Keeper by S.A.  MacLean

27. The Phoenix Keeper

By: S.A. MacLean

4.01

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens,… read more

Similar categories in S.A. MacLean's The Phoenix Keeper book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

28. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of The Punkhawala and the Prostitute by Wesley Leon Aroozoo

29. The Punkhawala and the Prostitute

By: Wesley Leon Aroozoo

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Beneath the façade of a land golden with oppor… read more

Similar categories in Wesley Leon Aroozoo's The Punkhawala and the Prostitute book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fiction
Cover of Red Dust, White Snow by Pan Huiting

30. Red Dust, White Snow

By: Pan Huiting

3.07

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Who is to say dreams are insubstantial when whole lives can be lived in their pursuit? When an offi… read more

Similar categories in Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley

31. Barrowbeck

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, h… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Barrowbeck book and Pan Huiting's Red Dust, White Snow

  • fiction

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Zen Cho

4.35

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Lee Mi-ye

3.79

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The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

Gabriela Romero Lacruz

3.33

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

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La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom

Kim Ho-yeon

4.04

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Lee Mi-ye

3.79

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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

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