18 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like The City Inside by Samit Basu

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The City Inside

By: Samit Basu

3.31

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

“They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”Joey is a Reali…

"They're on display. Indi's making sure her body catches the light as it changes colour off his smartatt reads, always a spectacular angle, never missing a beat, turning and placing his partner in an impressive sequence of positions, switching every few minutes in response to some internal timer, performing as ever for whoever his audience is: does he see his own life in third-person? Their bodies are impeccable, their movements in perfect sync, he wants to give them full marks, share, subscribe. This isn't their first time, and he has many questions: is this another Flow that they're secretly recording, or is this how the audience-obsessed behave even when they're alone?"

-Samit Basu, The City Inside

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1. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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2. 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 fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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3. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
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4. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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5. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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6. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. 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
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. The City Inside

By: Samit Basu

3.31

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

“They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”Joey is a Reali… read more

Similar categories in Samit Basu's The City Inside book and Samit Basu's The City Inside

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • india
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They're on display. Indi's making sure her body catches the light as it changes colour off his smartatt reads, always a spectacular angle, never missing a beat, turning and placing his partner in an …"

-Samit Basu, The City Inside

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10. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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12. Emergent Properties

By: Aimee Ogden

3.57

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brew… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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13. The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

3.71

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."

-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

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14. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By: Eddie Robson

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

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15. A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

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16. The Death I Gave Him

By: Em X. Liu

3.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) by Micaiah Johnson

17. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

By: Micaiah Johnson

4.15

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."

-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

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18. Neom

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Machines roam the desert in search of purpose; works of art can be deadlier than weapons, and impro… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. January Fifteenth

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“One of the best speculative writers of the last decade.”—John Scalzi January Fifteenth—the day … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) by Cadwell Turnbull

20. We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In We Are the Crisis—the second book in the Convergence Saga from award-winning author Cadwell Turn… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. The Ten Percent Thief

By: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, th… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • india
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

21 must-read fiction books like The City Inside by Samit Basu

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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