14 best-selling fantasy books like A Brief History of Living Forever by Jaroslav Kalfar

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A Brief History of Living Forever

By: Jaroslav Kalfar

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a nativist near-future America obsessed with eternal life and under the increasing threat of tec…

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1. The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more

Similar categories in Nick Fuller Googins's The Great Transition book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

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2. City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more

Similar categories in Temim Fruchter's City of Laughter book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. A Brief History of Living Forever

By: Jaroslav Kalfar

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a nativist near-future America obsessed with eternal life and under the increasing threat of tec… read more

Similar categories in Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • literary fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. Camp Zero

By: Michelle Min Sterling

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intert… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Min Sterling's Camp Zero book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

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5. Těla

By: Klára Vlasáková

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Matky a dcery. Jejich těla, jejich pouto, jejich rozepře, jejich strachy. Ovdovělá šedesátnice Mari… read more

Similar categories in Klára Vlasáková's Těla book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • fiction
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6. 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
  • thriller
  • 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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7. Bridge

By: Lauren Beukes

3.68

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Beukes's Bridge book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. Šikmý kostel 3: románová kronika ztraceného města, léta 1945–1961

By: Karin Lednická

4.71

Format: 696 pages, Hardcover

Jak dlouho trvá válka po tom, co skončí? Navždy, pokud jí člověk prošel. Ptejme se spíše, jak může… read more

Similar categories in Karin Lednická's Šikmý kostel 3: románová kronika ztraceného města, léta 1945–1961 book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • fiction
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9. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

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10. More Perfect

By: Temi Oh

3.69

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, for fans of Becky Chambers and William Gib… read more

Similar categories in Temi Oh's More Perfect book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. 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 Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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12. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

Similar categories in Jinwoo Chong's Flux book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Píseň L.

By: Veronika Opatřilová

4.42

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Šlechtický sirotek na anglickém středověkém hrabství má život předem nalinkovaný: Odejde do klášter… read more

Similar categories in Veronika Opatřilová's Píseň L. book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • fiction
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14. The Endless Vessel

By: Charles Soule

3.79

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of “depression plague” that p… read more

Similar categories in Charles Soule's The Endless Vessel book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Desert Creatures

By: Kay Chronister

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. … read more

Similar categories in Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. A Likely Story

By: Leigh McMullan Abramson

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything s… read more

Similar categories in Leigh McMullan Abramson's A Likely Story book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"People who publish are writers. No one says, 'I'm a lawyer' because they act out imaginary court scenes in their bedrooms."

-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story

"The flip side of her steady dependability was that she had no margin for error. If Claire forgot a birthday or was five minutes late, it was intolerable precisely because it happened so infrequently.…"

-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story

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17. Please Report Your Bug Here

By: Josh Riedel

3.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a… read more

Similar categories in Josh Riedel's Please Report Your Bug Here book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. Loneliness & Company

By: Charlee Dyroff

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely, beautifully observed debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who find… read more

Similar categories in Charlee Dyroff's Loneliness & Company book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • literary fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"We open our mouths and let the world fall out."

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"We cannot see the world without seeing pieces of ourselves"

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"A person to think with is the most intimate thing someone can have. And she has it, this connection that outlasts the body’s demise, the heart’s tantrums."

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"I guess I feel anxious in a good way, too. It's a weird cycle: Do I do things all the time because they are important? Or because they make me feel important?"

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

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19. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

Similar categories in John Vercher's Devil Is Fine book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

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21. Vladimír Beneš: Mé cesty do hlubin mozku

By: Vladimír Beneš

4.44

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Upřímná zpověď našeho nejznámějšího neurochirurga. O životě, smrti, naději i zázracích moderní me… read more

Similar categories in Vladimír Beneš's Vladimír Beneš: Mé cesty do hlubin mozku book and Jaroslav Kalfar's A Brief History of Living Forever

  • audiobook

20 Top fiction books like A Brief History of Living Forever by Jaroslav Kalfar

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The Great Transition

Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

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3.78

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3.53

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3.21

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4.09

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3.31

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3.37

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