Books like The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
12 books with a reading profile close to The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Saga, Volume 3
narrative, science fiction
In the third volume of this space opera, fugitive parents Alana and Marko continue their flight from the authorities of Landfall and Wreath.
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Station Eleven
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, science fiction
The narrative begins with a stage actor dying of a heart attack during a production of King Lear, moments before a Georgia Flu pandemic kills most of the global population.
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3
How High We Go in the Dark
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, science fiction
The narrative begins in the Siberian permafrost, where researchers inadvertently release an ancient "Arctic Plague" from a prehistoric corpse.
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Saga, Volume 1
narrative, science fiction
Alana and Marko come from warring worlds: the high-tech Landfall and its magical moon, Wreath.
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5
The Age of Miracles
narrative, science fiction
On an ordinary Saturday, the earth’s rotation begins to slow, an event known as "the slowing." Julia, an eleven-year-old living in California, watches as gravity shifts and birds fall from the sky.
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Also contemplative · narrative, science fiction
Ariadne is an astronaut on a four-person crew, the Lawki mission, traveling to study four potentially habitable worlds.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
When a middle-aged man returns to his childhood home for a funeral, he wanders to the neighboring farmhouse where he met Lettie Hempstock decades earlier.
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8
The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in a nameless Balkan country recovering from war, the narrative follows Natalia, a young doctor on a mission to deliver medicine to an orphanage.
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9
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
Also contemplative · narrative, literary
In 1920s Alaska, homesteaders Jack and Mabel struggle with the isolation of the frontier and the grief of their childless marriage.
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10
The Spear Cuts Through Water
narrative, literary
In the Strangled Empire, three oppressive princes rule through terror and magical birthrights under their father, the Old Emperor.
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11
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in a reimagined medieval Spain, the story traces the collision of three rival cultures: the Asharites, the Jaddites, and the Kindath.
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Tales from Earthsea
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
This collection consists of five stories and a factual appendix documenting the history and mechanics of the archipelago.
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