These are books I've read that have settings that feel wild and beautiful and wholly original.
created by nonhoration
last updated March, 2026
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Archivist Wasp (Archivist Wasp Saga, #1)
Nicole Kornher-Stace
Empress of Forever
Max Gladstone
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
The Deep
Rivers Solomon
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
Marina Dyachenko
The Good Luck Girls (The Good Luck Girls, #1)
Charlotte Nicole Davis
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
Tade Thompson
The Outside (The Outside, #1)
Ada Hoffmann
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
William Gibson
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Viscera
Gabrielle Squailia
Pet (Pet, #1)
Akwaeke Emezi
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
China Miéville
The Stars Are Legion
Kameron Hurley
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
The City & the City
Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)
Fonda Lee
The Vanished Birds
How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) (Monster Girlfriend, #1)
Marie Cardno
Dead Boys
Carrion Saints
Hiyodori Hiyodori
The Works of Vermin
Hiron Ennes
Mad Sisters of Esi
Tashan Mehta
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
Nghi Vo
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