12 must-read science fiction books like A Summer Beyond Your Reach by Xia Jia

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A Summer Beyond Your Reach

By: Xia Jia

4.25

Format: 310 pages, ebook

“There is perhaps no voice better suited to tell the stories of contemporary China's conflicted, la…

If you liked the science fiction plot in A Summer Beyond Your Reach by Xia Jia , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Crab-Flower Club (The Story of the Stone #2)

By: Cao Xueqin , David Hawkes

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Cao Xueqin's The Crab-Flower Club (The Story of the Stone #2) book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • china
  • fiction
  • chinese literature
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2. The Golden Days (The Story of the Stone #1)

By: Cao Xueqin , David Hawkes

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first p… read more

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  • china
  • fiction
  • chinese literature
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3. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By: Ed Yong

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more

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"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

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4. Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, s… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5) book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

5. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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6. Bloody Rose (The Band, #2)

By: Nicholas Eames

3.88

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

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7. Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.05

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've a… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7) book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Names have power. Names define things"

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"I'm not your door, but I might be my own."

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"Being a fat child meant knowing how to be own best advocate"

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"I am not your door.' After a pause for thought, she added, 'But I might be my own."

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

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8. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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9. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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10. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

By: Yu Chen

3.85

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • china
  • fantasy
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12. Remote Control

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.85

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

The new book by Nebula and Hugo Award-winner, Nnedi Okorafor."She’s the adopted daughter of the Ang… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Remote Control book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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13. Thick: And Other Essays

By: Tressie McMillan Cottom

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today'… read more

Similar categories in Tressie McMillan Cottom's Thick: And Other Essays book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

"I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me."

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"Smart is only a construct of correspondence between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization."

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"The networks of capital, be they politics or organizations, work most effeciently when your lowedst status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never be competent en…"

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

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14. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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15. Trick

By: Domenico Starnone

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy. The same blood runs through their veins. One… read more

Similar categories in Domenico Starnone's Trick book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • fiction
"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"He stared at the first one, seeming to drink it up with his eyes, an antiquated metaphor that I’ve always loved: People and things dissolve, turn to liquid, and the eyes become mouth and throat, chan…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"I have enormous affection that grows rather than diminishes with time, for the I that I painfully cose from the many, my I. How we love—all of us—our chatty little imp. The toil begins when we toss h…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"Sexual pleasure, uncoupled once and for all from reproduction, which was its original purpose, continuously leaked fluids all over the planet, in every season. And there was no controlling it, whatev…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

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16. Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction

By: Xueting Christine Ni

4.01

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A stunning collection of the best in Chinese Science Fiction, from Award-Winning legends to up-and-… read more

Similar categories in Xueting Christine Ni's Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • chinese literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • china
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17. Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.96

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinét… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1) book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You know people who love you don't hurt you like that," he says, eyes steady on me. "Love's not supposed to try to kill you."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

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18. Navigational Entanglements

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.05

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard presents yet another innovative space opera that broadens th… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Navigational Entanglements book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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19. New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction

By: Neil Clarke

4.00

Format: 268 pages, ebook

Science fiction is international in scope, but many works are often unavailable to readers because … read more

Similar categories in Neil Clarke's New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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20. A Summer Beyond Your Reach

By: Xia Jia

4.25

Format: 310 pages, ebook

“There is perhaps no voice better suited to tell the stories of contemporary China's conflicted, la… read more

Similar categories in Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • short story collection
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • chinese literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • china
  • fantasy
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21. Karla's Choice

By: Nick Harkaway

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, writ… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice book and Xia Jia's A Summer Beyond Your Reach

  • fiction

16 must-read fiction books like A Summer Beyond Your Reach by Xia Jia

Transform Your Habits

The Crab-Flower Club (The Story of the Stone #2)

Cao Xueqin , David Hawkes

4.53

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Days (The Story of the Stone #1)

Cao Xueqin , David Hawkes

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5)

James S.A. Corey

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

Seanan McGuire

4.05

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16 Best fiction books like Trick by Domenico Starnone

Transform Your Habits

The Jolly Corner

Henry James

3.13

Transform Your Habits

A Cabeça do Santo

Socorro Acioli

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

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