15 Top fiction books like South by Babak Lakghomi

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South

By: Babak Lakghomi

3.61

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

South is a haunting and hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and a…

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1. The Meursault Investigation

By: John Cullen , Kamel Daoud

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic … read more

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2. 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

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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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3. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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4. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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5. South

By: Babak Lakghomi

3.61

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

South is a haunting and hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • iran
  • fantasy
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6. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
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7. All the Horses of Iceland

By: Sarah Tolmie

3.53

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"While Eyvind never became a literate man, he saw as he went on that books contained words that could transform men into priests and kings and healers."

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

"That was the way it was with languages, Eyvind had observed once he left home and realized how many there were: some he could see into and some he could not. Listening to them was like looking down i…"

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

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8. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • 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

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9. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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10. 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
  • fiction
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11. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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12. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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  • short stories
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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13. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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14. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Someone Who Isn’t Me

By: Geoff Rickly

4.60

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."

-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me

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16. Beyond the Door of No Return

By: David Diop

3.66

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrilling and deeply moving new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize. … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Despite all my efforts to block it out, the ordeal on the pier in Gorée, after our brief escape beyond the door to the voyage of no return, came back to me intact. I realized then that painting and m…"

-David Diop, Beyond the Door of No Return

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17. Vigil Harbor

By: Julia Glass

3.68

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award winner, a symphonic communal novel about a small coastal town where cl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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18. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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19. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. r i t u a l

By: Sean Kilpatrick

4.83

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

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21. The Bliss House

By: Jim Bartley

3.40

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Two young men bringing up a small child in the middle of nowhere. Everything could be fine, but str… read more

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  • fiction

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