Best Kelly Link Books

The best books by Kelly Link — 5 titles spanning Sci-Fi, Literature & Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, averaging 3.60 BLT stars.

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Kelly Link occupies a strange and singular corner of contemporary fiction — her work dissolves genre boundaries so completely that calling it fantasy or horror or literary fiction feels beside the point. Stories from White Cat, Black Dog drift between fairy tale logic and domestic realism with an eerie, dreamlike confidence, never quite explaining themselves and never needing to. Her prose is precise and strange in equal measure: each sentence lands cleanly, but the accumulated effect is deeply unsettling. The Book of Love shows her expanding that sensibility into longer form without losing the uncanny compression that makes her short fiction so memorable. Link is essential reading for anyone who finds conventional genre fiction too tidy — readers who want their stories to leave a residue of unease long after the last page.

Kelly Link's highest-rated book in our collection is Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute (3.8 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

Where to Start with Kelly Link

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    Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute cover

    Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute

    by Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger, Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga, David Morrell, Thomas F. Monteleone, Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally, Joe Meno, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu

    3.80 BLT Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.9K)
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    White Cat, Black Dog: Stories cover

    White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

    by Kelly Link, Shaun Tan

    3.75 BLT Score (7.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.79 Goodreads (7.7K)
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    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 cover

    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

    Kyle Murchison Booth • Book 4

    by Paula Guran, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Stewart O'Nan, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Barbara Roden, Lucius Shepard, Peter Straub, Michael Shea, Kelly Link, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Gerard Houarner, Gemma Files, Kurt Dinan, Elizabeth Bear, Roby Davies, Maura McHugh, Dale Bailey, Deborah Biancotti, Gary McMahon, Holly Phillips, John Mantooth, Marc Laidlaw, Margo Lanagan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Peter Atkins, Sarah Monette, Seth Fried, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Duffy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Langan

    3.60 BLT Score (431 ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (431)
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    The Book of Love cover

    The Book of Love

    by Kelly Link

    3.49 BLT Score (11.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.49 Goodreads (11.1K)
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    Zombies: The Recent Dead cover

    Zombies: The Recent Dead

    by Paula Guran, Steve Duffy, Max Brooks, Nik Houser, Andy Duncan, David J. Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Alice Sola Kim, Gary A. Braunbeck, Francesca Lia Block, Tobias S. Buckell, David Wellington, Tim Waggoner, Kit Reed, Brian Keene, Kelly Link, Gary McMahon, Scott Edelman, Kevin Veale, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, David Prill

    3.34 BLT Score (939 ratings)
    ★ 3.66 Goodreads (939)

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