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The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
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*Cage of Souls* and *Service Model* by Tchaikovsky are very engaging dying-earth standalones. SM is fairly amusing. CoS is fairly bleak but very unique.
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I just finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (admittedly, I’m behind the times on that) and loved it. If you haven’t read it yet, I cannot recommend it enough.
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Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
Seriously, it’s everything you want and more.
It’s a little bit of everything — murder mystery/police procedural, alternative history in which not all indigenous people in the US have been slaughtered and the city in which the action takes place has a municipal government controlled by indigenous folks, and is the only city in the US in which that’s the case, the protagonist had a Black father and an indigenous mother and was raised in one of those mission schools that try to erase history from non-white kids, so he doesn’t fit in anywhere, doesn’t know the language, so the politics is fascinating, and there’s a little romance, too.
If you’ve read and liked Colson Whitehead’s first book, The Intuitionist, this is a good one — the atmosphere feels much the same.
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Sisters of Jade, by James Downe. Fantastic.
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
11/22/63
Read Frankenstein now reading The Lord of the Rings
Tress of the emerald sea
The hobbit
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
*Cage of Souls* and *Service Model* by Tchaikovsky are very engaging dying-earth standalones. SM is fairly amusing. CoS is fairly bleak but very unique.
I just finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (admittedly, I’m behind the times on that) and loved it. If you haven’t read it yet, I cannot recommend it enough.
The Frozen River
You might also like The Goldfinch by Donna Tart, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi or The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alex E. Harrow
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
Seriously, it’s everything you want and more.
It’s a little bit of everything — murder mystery/police procedural, alternative history in which not all indigenous people in the US have been slaughtered and the city in which the action takes place has a municipal government controlled by indigenous folks, and is the only city in the US in which that’s the case, the protagonist had a Black father and an indigenous mother and was raised in one of those mission schools that try to erase history from non-white kids, so he doesn’t fit in anywhere, doesn’t know the language, so the politics is fascinating, and there’s a little romance, too.
If you’ve read and liked Colson Whitehead’s first book, The Intuitionist, this is a good one — the atmosphere feels much the same.