Books like The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne

H. G. Wells’ classic tales the narrator builds a machine, journeys 800,000 years ahead to a seemingly utopian future that hides a savage underground society.

After a catastrophic pandemic, former actress Kirsten Raymonde joins a traveling troupe that performs Shakespeare for scattered communities, only to confront a ruthless prophet in a desperate quest for survival.

In a future where corporations weaponize genetic engineering, Paolo Bacigalupi’s *The Windup Girl* explores the ethical and societal consequences of bioterrorism and gene hacking.

ix, 340 pages : 20 cm

Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

Freshwater is a powerful, culturally grounded exploration of trauma and identity in a Nigerian context, told through the eyes of a non-binary protagonist who navigates grief, self‑harm, and dissociation.

In the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, Aster, a dark‑skinned sharecropper aboard a space vessel resembling the antebellum South, contends with brutal overseers and relentless labels, discovering a possible way to spark a civil war and change her fate.

Patricia Cowan, an elderly woman in 2015, wrestles with fragments of alternate memories—different marriages, children, and a fatal 1963 bomb—questioning her own past and the nature of reality.

A woman's story spanning the pivotal moments of the 20th century from the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919 to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.

In this award‑winning collection, Dubravka Ugresic reimagines the Baba Yaga legend, weaving it into contemporary themes of femininity, ageing, identity, secrets, storytelling, and love.

Three women—Bethanne, her daughter Annie, and Ruth—embark on a cross-country road trip to Florida for a high‑school reunion, discovering new friendships, revisiting past loves, and confronting life‑changing decisions along the way.

"A surreal and shockingly original debut novel set in a dystopian world shaped by language--literally. Vanja, a government worker, leaves her home city of Essre for the austere, wintry colony of Amatka on a research assignment. It takes some adjusting: people act differently in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion. Intending to stay just a short while, Vanja finds herself falling in love with her housemate, Nina, and decides to stick around. But when she stumbles on evidence of a growing threat to the colony and a cover-up by its administration, she begins an investigation that puts her at tremendous risk. In Karin Tidbeck's dystopic imagining, language has the power to shape reality. Unless objects, buildings, and the surrounding landscape are repeatedly named, and named properly, everything will fall apart. Trapped in the repressive colony, Vanja dreams of using language to break free, but her individualism may well threaten the very fabric of reality. Amatka is a beguiling and wholly original novel about freedom, love, and artistic creation by an idiosyncratic new voice"--

Set in the early 1900s Northwest frontier, Wild Life follows Charlotte Bridger Drummond, a pioneering woman writer, as she seeks a lost child in the wilderness and discovers a mysterious, wild‑man community, blending adventure with feminist insight.

A collection of short stories set in a speculative universe where women bear the label of "fems" and are blamed for a world‑ending devastation known as the Wasting.