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Books like The City We Became
A fierce, reality-bending love letter to the messy, beating heart of a metropolis under siege. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The City We Became.
- kinetic
- surreal
- urgent
- gritty
- 01
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
N. K. Jemisin · 2010
A lush, dangerous plunge into a floating palace where captive gods and ruthless mortals play a deadly game of succession.
- 02
The Kingdom of Gods
N. K. Jemisin
A bittersweet, mythic journey that strips a trickster god of his immortality to explore the terrifying, beautiful vulnerability of being human.
- 03
The City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty
A lush, politically charged plunge into a hidden world of djinn where every glittering surface hides centuries of simmering resentment.
- 04
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
A dark, modern fairy tale that transforms the very real anxieties of new parenthood into a terrifying, magical odyssey through the hidden realms of New York City.
- 05
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A hypnotic, puzzle-box journal of a beautiful, flooded labyrinth that slowly reveals a heartbreaking mystery.
- 06
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
A fierce, grief-fueled collision of Southern Black history and Arthurian legend hidden within an elite college campus.
- 07
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
A lush, labyrinthine love letter to stories and the people who lose themselves in them, wrapped in a dreamscape of honey, keys, and hidden doors.
- 08
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
A haunting exploration of radical empathy and toxic devotion set against the harsh extremes of a tidally locked world.
- 09
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
A lush, defiant love letter to the magic of storytelling and the hidden thresholds that lead us to where we belong.
- 10
New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
A sprawling, hopeful love letter to a drowned but defiant metropolis.
- 11
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
A pulp-infused road trip where the cosmic horrors of the occult pale in comparison to the everyday terrors of Jim Crow America.
- 12
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
A brilliant, paranoid plunge into the seductive heart of an expansionist empire, where poetry is a weapon and memory is a ghost.
