The Bread We Eat in Dreams
10 best books like The Bread We Eat in Dreams (Catherynne M. Valente): Archivist Wasp, How To Be Happy, North American Lake Monsters, Lady Oracle, Empress of Forever, A Guide to Being Born: Stories, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering, One Hundred Ablutions, Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
| Author | Nicole Kornher-Stace |
| ISBN | 1618730975 |
Wasp's job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-lost ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his pre-apocalyptic...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1606997408 |
Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow,...
North American Lake Monsters
| Author | Nathan Ballingrud |
| ISBN | 1618730592 |
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491085 |
Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto,...
| Author | Max Gladstone |
| ISBN | 0765395819 |
A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy—a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure of a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits, dangerous renegades, and enhanced outlaws in a war-torn future.
A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical...
A Guide to Being Born: Stories
| Author | Ramona Ausubel |
| ISBN | 1594487952 |
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.
Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016, combines the otherworldly...
| Author | Kij Johnson |
| ISBN | 1931520801 |
A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy...
No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1937006859 |
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. In No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration for transforming suffering and finding true joy. Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from...
This is a short story (maybe 30 pages) that I'd been meaning to read for years, but only just recently got to do so. It's a really quick read, although it takes a while to let it sink in.
Dala's people, the Keren, are in service to the Shaladan. While they're slaves, the Keren don't seem to mind it too terribly....
| Author | John Scalzi |
| ISBN | 1596068124 |
The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly...
