The Love We Share Without Knowing

10 best books like The Love We Share Without Knowing (Christopher Barzak): Territory of Light, How We Fight For Our Lives, Blonde with a Wand, Elysium, Black Rain, Are You Listening?, Against a Dark Background, The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Sarah Canary, Cristallisation Secrète

Territory of Light

Author	Yūko Tsushima
ISBN	0241312191

Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-year-old daughter. Its twelve, stand-alone fragments follow the first year of her separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming...

How We Fight For Our Lives

Author	Saeed Jones
ISBN	1501132733

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to...

Blonde with a Wand

Author	Vicki Lewis Thompson
ISBN	0451228928

View our feature on Vicki Lewis Thompson’s Blonde with a Wand.From the Wild & Hexy imagination of a New York Times bestselling author

Sexy witch Anica Revere has one rule: never under any circumstances get involved with a man before telling him she's a witch. Still, what's one silly rule?...

Elysium

Author	Jennifer Marie Brissett
ISBN	1619760533

Well this was a mess of a book in so many ways. I think I sort of see what the author was trying to do with it, but the story came across as a confusing jumble of scenes that danced around the main theme and had a conclusion that was downright unsatisfying and anti-climatic.

I think the author wanted...

Black Rain

Author

Masuji Ibuse

What Are We Now?

Only in Japan could the dropping of the atomic bomb be written about in the same even tone as the stocking of fish in the local lake. The details of death, injury, radiation sickness and physical destruction are given equal billing with the care and feeding of farmed carp, their...

Are You Listening?

Author	Tillie Walden
ISBN	1250207568

Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou.

This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things follow them wherever they go. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world, a mysterious cat joins them, and they are haunted by a group of threatening men. To...

Against a Dark Background

Author	Iain M. Banks
ISBN	1857230310

She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families.

Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. On an island with a glass shore - relic of some even more ancient...

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

Author	Kai Ashante Wilson
ISBN	0765385244

Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors' artifacts in hand, the Sorcerer follows the Captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight.

The two of them are the descendants of the gods who abandoned...

Sarah Canary

Author	Karen Joy Fowler
ISBN	0452286476

Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler's captivating historical novel--a New York Times Notable Book.

When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to...

Cristallisation Secrète

Author	Yōko Ogawa
ISBN	2742788298

L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...