Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
- What it is
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A long road where every step counts · it stays with you
- Genre
- Science fiction Classics
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to The left hand of darkness
Coming from The left hand of darkness? Start with Cold mountain, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Buried Giant. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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It stays with you and the long road
Cold mountain
Charles Frazier 1997
It stays with you, but in literary fiction
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro 2001
It stays with you, but in fantasy
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It stays with you and cerebral
3 books · Alike in just one
Only it stays with you
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel 2014
Readers put them together in Science fiction with a soul
The summer book
Tove Jansson 2000
It leaves you thinking · a small, intimate story
Devil's Day
Andrew Michael Hurley 2017
It leaves you thinking, but in horror
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Only the long road
Spear
Nicola Griffith 2022
In common with yours: the long road · love in the middle of danger
News of the World ARE
Paulette Jiles 2016
Tender and sad at once, but in historical fiction
Devils
Joe Abercrombie 2025
In common with yours: the long road · it tells it with no filter
Parable Of The Sower
Octavia E. Butler 1993
Like yours: the long road · fierce and defiant
The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce 2012
Tender and sad at once, but in literary fiction
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard 2000
In common with yours: the long road · a world to get lost in
22 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
Solaris
Stanisław Lem 2002
Readers put them together in Science fiction with a soul
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin 2020
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll want to talk it over with someone
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany 1967
Properly strange · you'll keep turning it over for days
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine 2019
Nothing is quite what it seems · a mystery you want to solve
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
Frank Herbert 1965
A world to get lost in · full of big ideas
Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gene Wolfe 1999
It messes with your head · it changes how you see things
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley 2004
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
In Ascension
Martin MacInnes 2023
Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells 2015
Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke 1953
Full of big ideas · nothing is quite what it seems
Count Zero
William Gibson 1986
It messes with your head · a threat that keeps growing
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
Tender and sad at once · full of big ideas
Zone One
Colson Whitehead 2011
It messes with your head · an epidemic changes everything
Roadside Picnic
Strugatsky 1978
It messes with your head · it's hiding a secret
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang 2010
Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Galatea 2. 2
Richard Powers 1995
Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
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It gets under your skin · a society that controls everything
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Grouped with yours in Science fiction with a soul
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A world to get lost in · strangers who become a family
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I Who Have Never Known Men
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Melancholic and unhurried · a place nobody can leave
Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh 2018
It ties your stomach in a knot · a place nobody can leave
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin 2008
One to read slowly · a small, intimate story
Circe
Madeline Miller 2018
As atmospheric and tender as yours, only more bittersweet and defiant
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