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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

10 best books like Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City (Andrew Ross): Revenant Gun, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, A Bride's Story, Vol. 1, In the Vanishers’ Palace, Perelandra, Out of the Silent Planet, A Kiss With Teeth, The Okay Witch, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality

Revenant Gun
AuthorYoon Ha Lee
ISBN1781086079
Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion!

When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cadet--but his body belongs to a man decades...
A Wizard of Earthsea
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0553383043
”The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”


The Folio Society edition is superbly illustrated by David Lupton.

The boy is born on the island of Gont in the archipelago of Earthsea. This is a world infused with magic. Not everyone can control this magic, but those...
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
AuthorAlix E. Harrow
ISBN0316421995
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke,...
A Bride's Story, Vol. 1
AuthorKaoru Mori
ISBN0316180998
Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior. Coping with cultural differences, blossoming feelings for her...
In the Vanishers’ Palace
AuthorAliette de Bodard
In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land...

A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world.

A dragon, among the last of her kind,...
Perelandra
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0007157169
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil...
Out of the Silent Planet
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0007157150
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures...
A Kiss With Teeth
AuthorMax Gladstone
I'm upping my rating from 4.5 stars to 5 stars on rereading this Tor.com online freebie. I love this story! Vlad the vampire is married to a human (in fact, the woman who was originally hunting him down!). They have a young son, and Vlad tries to live like a regular human, denying his darker self and powers....
The Okay Witch
AuthorEmma Steinkellner
ISBN1534431454
Sabrina the Teenage Witch meets Roller Girl in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind graphic novel about a half-witch who has just discovered the truth about herself, her family, and her town and is doing her best to survive middle school now that she knows everything!

Magic is harder than it looks.
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The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
AuthorJulie Sondra Decker
ISBN1631440020
What if you weren't sexually attracted to anyone?

A growing number of people are identifying as asexual. They aren't sexually attracted to anyone, and they consider it a sexual orientation—like gay, straight, or bisexual.

Asexuality is the invisible orientation. Most people...
The Weapon Makers
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0441131530
Following the success of the stories that formed The Weapon Shops of Isher, van Vogt wrote the novel, The Weapon Makers, in 1943, to enlarge the story of human immortality, the conflict between a controlling government, The House of Isher, the mysterious Weapon Shops and man's place in the universe....
Blood of the Mantis
AuthorAdrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN0230704166
This is the third book in the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

He’s one of my favourite authors. If you're reluctant to dive into a long series without first getting to know an author, I've got a few recommendations. Fantasy: Guns of the Dawn (Austen's Elizabeth Bennet goes...
Ghost Hedgehog
AuthorNina Kiriki Hoffman


Some of the shades had colors in them and looked more like people. Those were the ones I’d been ducking since I learned to walk.

Although I remembered one shady fady lady who had hovered near my bed when I was really little and told me all kinds of strange stories I couldn’t understand...
The Magicians: Alice's Story
AuthorLilah Sturges
ISBN1684150213
THE MAGICIANS: ALICE’S STORY is an all new chapter set in the world of The Magicians trilogy of novels by New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman that retells the events of the first novel through fan-favorite character Alice Quinn.

Alice Quinn is manifestly brilliant, and she’s...
The Ascent to Godhood
AuthorJ.Y. Yang
ISBN1250165881
The Protector is dead.

For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead....
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