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A devastating, beautiful exploration of memory, magic, and the immigrant experience that will break your heart and carefully fold it back together. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories.
- bittersweet
- haunting
- tender
- sorrowful
- 01
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
A collection of mind-bending thought experiments that quietly break your heart while expanding your understanding of the universe.
- 02
Invisible Planets
Ken Liu
A kaleidoscopic journey through surreal futures and alternate realities that holds a mirror up to the complexities of modern society.
- 03
Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi
A visceral, dirt-under-the-fingernails plunge into broken futures where humanity has engineered its own obsolescence.
- 04
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 05
To Hold Up the Sky
Cixin Liu
A mind-expanding journey that juxtaposes the fragile, mundane struggles of humanity with the cold, staggering majesty of the cosmos.
- 06
The Weird
Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
A massive, labyrinthine cabinet of curiosities that will permanently tilt your perception of reality.
- 07
Six months, three days, five others
Charlie Jane Anders
A wry, offbeat collection of speculative tales that uses the bizarre to illuminate the deeply human.
- 08
A People's Future of the United States
Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah and others
A defiant, electrifying collection of speculative visions that dares to imagine marginalized communities surviving, resisting, and thriving in the face of systemic collapse.
- 09
Beyond the rift
Peter Watts
A gorgeously saturnine collection of edgy science fiction that blurs the line between the known and the alien.
- 10
The Red Threads of Fortune
Neon Yang
A fierce, grief-stricken hunt through a silkpunk wasteland where running from the past collides with the terrifying beauty of healing.
- 11
Octavia's Brood
Adrienne Maree Brown, Walidah Imarisha
A visionary anthology that wields speculative fiction as a radical tool to dream up new, liberated worlds.
- 12
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
A dizzying descent into a library of infinite mirrors, where reality, time, and identity constantly shift and dissolve.
