Books like An unkindness of ghosts

An unkindness of ghosts by Rivers Solomon reads as haunting, bleak. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Bloodchild and other stories

Octavia E. Butler · 1995

Both explore race & gender

60% genome match

The Stone Sky

N.K. Jemisin · 2017

Same sci-fi feel

58% genome match

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

Nisi Shawl · 2019

Both explore race & identity

69% genome match

The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood

Same sci-fi feel

62% genome match

Sorrowland

Rivers Solomon · 2021

Both explore race & trauma

64% genome match

Four Ways to Forgiveness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Both explore freedom & race

62% genome match

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James · 2019

Both explore identity

60% genome match

The Black Tides of Heaven

Neon Yang · 2017

Both explore gender & identity

60% genome match

The Book of Phoenix

Nnedi Okorafor · 2015

Both explore freedom & identity

61% genome match

The Beauty

Aliya Whiteley · 2014

Both explore gender

61% genome match

Alien Sex

Ellen Datlow · 1990

Both explore identity

61% genome match

Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson · 1998

Both explore identity

58% genome match