An International Speculative Fiction Reading List
Michael Andreasen
The Sea Beast Takes a Lover
Penguin, 2018
Yoshio Aramaki
The Sacred Era
Trans. Baryon Tensor Posadas
University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Lesley Nneka Arimah
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Riverhead Books, 2017
Kawamata Chiaki
Death Sentences
Trans. Thomas Lamarre & Kazuko Y. Behrens
University of Minnesota Press, 2012
Berit Ellingsen
Vessel and Solsvart
Snuggly Books, 2017
John M. Keller
The Box and the Briefcase, the Moleque and the Old Man and the First Coming of the Second Son of God
Dr. Cicero Books, 2014
Leena Krohn
Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction
Cheeky Frawg, 2015
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
Intro. by China Miéville
Orion Books, 2017
Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem
Trans. Ken Liu
Tor Books, 2016
Ken Liu
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Saga Press, 2016
Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties
Graywolf Press, 2017
Nnedi Okorafor
Who Fears Death
DAW Books, 2010
Helen Oyeyemi
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Hamish Hamilton, 2016
Michelle Pretorius
The Monster’s Daughter
Melville House, 2016
Ahmed Saadawi
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Trans. Jonathan Wright
Penguin Books, 2018
Del Samatar & Sofia Samatar
Monster Portraits
Rose Metal Press, 2018
Johanna Sinisalo
The Core of the Sun
Trans. Lola Rogers
Black Cat, 2016
Chandler Klang Smith
The Sky Is Yours
Hogarth, 2018
Anna Starobinets
An Awkward Age
Trans. Hugh Aplin
Hesperus Press, 2011
Drew Hayden Taylor
Take Us to Your Chief
Douglas & McIntyre, 2017
Karen Tidbeck
Amatka
Vintage, 2017
Élisabeth Vonarburg
Blood out of a Stone
Trans. Élisabeth Vonarburg, Howard Scott, & Others
Intro. by Ursula K. Le Guin
Nanopress, 2009
Zoran Živković
Impossible Stories
Trans. Alice Copple-Tošić
Cadmus Press, 2016
Anthologies
Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century after the Invasion
Ed. Hassan Blasim
Comma Press, 2016
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History
Ed. Rose Fox & Daniel José Older
Crosssed Genres Publications, 2014
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
Ed. Casey Plett & Cat Fitzpatrick
Topside Press, 2017
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Ed. Ann Vandemeer & Jeff Vandemeer
PM Press, 2015
Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy
Ed. Matthew David Goodwin
Wings Press, 2017
Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction
Ed. Yvonne Howell, Anne O. Fisher
Trans. Anne O. Fisher
Russian Life Books, 2015
The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction
Ed. Mingwei Song & Theodore Huters
Columbia University Press, (forthcoming)
