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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Before the Coffee Gets Cold #1

Toshikazu Kawaguchi with Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)

213 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold #1

Toshikazu Kawaguchi with Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)

213 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi with Jonathan Wright (Translator)

288 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction horror magical realism challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Frankenstein in Baghdad

Ahmed Saadawi with Jonathan Wright (Translator)

288 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction horror magical realism challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits
Del Valle Family #3

Isabel Allende with Magda Bogin (Translator)

448 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction historical literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced

The House of the Spirits

Del Valle Family #3

Isabel Allende with Magda Bogin (Translator)

448 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction historical literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced

All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka with Alexander O. Smith (Translator)

201 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous dark tense fast-paced

All You Need Is Kill

Hiroshi Sakurazaka with Alexander O. Smith (Translator)

201 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation #1

Ken Liu with Chen Qiufan (Contributor), Xia Jia (Contributor), Ma Boyong (Contributor), Hao Jingfang (Contributor), Tang Fei (Contributor), Cheng Jingbo (Contributor), Cixin Liu (Contributor)

383 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories speculative fiction adventurous medium-paced

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation #1

Ken Liu with Chen Qiufan (Contributor), Xia Jia (Contributor), Ma Boyong (Contributor), Hao Jingfang (Contributor), Tang Fei (Contributor), Cheng Jingbo (Contributor), Cixin Liu (Contributor)

383 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories speculative fiction adventurous medium-paced

Sisyphean
Dempow Torishima with Daniel Huddleston (Translator)

429 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction horror science fiction speculative fiction challenging dark slow-paced

Sisyphean

Dempow Torishima with Daniel Huddleston (Translator)

429 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction horror science fiction speculative fiction challenging dark slow-paced

Dawn
Legend of the Galactic Heroes #1

Yoshiki Tanaka with Tyran Grillo, Daniel Huddleston (Translator), Matt Treyvaud, Tim Gerard Reynolds (Narrator)

11 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous slow-paced

Dawn

Legend of the Galactic Heroes #1

Yoshiki Tanaka with Tyran Grillo, Daniel Huddleston (Translator), Matt Treyvaud, Tim Gerard Reynolds (Narrator)

11 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous slow-paced

Condomnauts
Yoss with David Frye (Translator)

208 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous slow-paced

Condomnauts

Yoss with David Frye (Translator)

208 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous slow-paced

A Planet for Rent
Yoss

347 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories adventurous dark medium-paced

A Planet for Rent

Yoss

347 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories adventurous dark medium-paced

The Three-Body Problem
Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu with Ken Liu (Translator)

399 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

The Three-Body Problem

Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu with Ken Liu (Translator)

399 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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