I’m often asked, recently, what people should be reading that’s non-American or non-British in SFF. Broad topic! Here are some I’ve loved, though. Most of them are from Finland, but you could probably have guessed that already…
FINLAND
Troll: a Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
Rabbit Back Literature Society and Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Collected Fiction and the Quantum Thief trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi
Birdbrain and Troll: a Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
The Otherling and Other Stories by Anne Leinonen
the Moomin books by Tove Jansson
CHINA
Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Selected Stories by Lu Hsun
TRINIDAD & JAMAICA & BARBADOS
Lex Talionis by RSA Garcia
Sister Mine and Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
Best of All Possible Worlds and Galaxy Game by Karen Lord
SWEDEN
Jagganath by Karin Tidbeck
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
IRELAND
Only Ever Yours and Asking For It by Louise O’Neill (the latter is fiction, not SFF)
SOUTH AFRICA
Azanian Bridges by Nick Wood
FRANCE
House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
MALAYSIA
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
SPAIN
I’ve not yet read this, but I am SUPER looking forward to the Women of Wonder compilation from Cristina Macia and co.
OTHERS
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic
Here are some other books by people who are amazing and you should read them, but I think they identify as Canadian, British, or American so they’re not listed above.
Lagoon and The Book of Phoenix and Who Fears Death and Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor
Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (He’s American but he’s amazing and you should just all read these stories omg.)
Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam (also American, but also amazing collection)
Irregular Verbs by Matthew Johnson
