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Rahul Kanakia’s second novel, WE ARE TOTALLY NORMAL, is out in March 2020 from HarperTeen. Her first book, ENTER TITLE HERE (Disney '16) was a Junior Library Guild selection and was reviewed by the New York Times. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, F&SF, and others. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and daughter. ...more

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Average rating: 3.42 · 13,288 ratings · 3,121 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Thousand Beginnings and Endings 3.77 avg rating — 6,129 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are Totally Normal 2.60 avg rating — 3,801 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enter Title Here 3.43 avg rating — 1,646 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diverse Energies by Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Monti (Editor), Ursula K. Le Guin 3.65 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We See a Different Frontier: A postcolonial speculative fiction anthology by Fábio Fernandes (Goodreads Author), Djibril al-Ayad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.99 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 by Rich Horton (Editor), Maggie Clark, M.L. Clark (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling by Jaym Gates (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Monica Valentinelli (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Valya Dudycz Lupescu (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2020 (F&SF, #747) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alexander C. Irvine, Essa Hansen (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 66, November 2015 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rahul Kanakia (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Brian M. Stableford (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A House, Drifting Sideways 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Henry James: The Complete Novellas and Tales (Centaur Classics)

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“The thing no one understands about me is that sometimes, once in a while, I get this feeling like I can do anything, and that feeling is so rare and so beautiful that it's really hard not to simply surrender to it.”
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“It was a Machiavellian scheme. I am a Machiavelli. I'm like twelve Machiavellis, in fact."

"You are no Machiavelli. You are one gossipy little bitch.”
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“I'm not a sympathetic main character. My quirks are not lovable. I am not clumsy. I am not overwhelmed by life. I am not unlucky in love.”
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“Frey, James, How to Write a Damn Good Novel. Helpful emphasis on the three C’s of Premise: character, conflict, and conclusion; useful throughout. One of the damn best books on the subject.”
― Renni Browne, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

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“I left, stifling my generous impulse, for I have often observed that while a charitable act may do no harm to the benefactor, it is death to the one who receives it.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

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“Stein, Sol, Stein on Writing. Perhaps the best book ever written on the overall craft of fiction. Straightforward, practical, easily absorbed.”
― Renni Browne, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

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“Did he live in a false world, a world that had grown simply to suit him, and was his present slight irritation—in the face now of Jim's silence in particular—but the alarm of the vain thing menaced by the touch of the real?”
― Henry James, The Wings of the Dove + The Ambassadors + What Maisie Knew + The Turn of the Screw:

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“I’d imagined that just because he was so good-looking, he must be extra good inside too. See, that’s the thing about our species. We can kind of tell the difference between looks and personality, but only kind of. We’re always getting the two things mixed up in our heads, even when we know better.”
― Sonya Mukherjee, Gemini

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