"What books have you read like Irkadura? I really loved it." — Katherine

Dear Katherine, I'm ecstatic that you loved it! Irkadura is not an easy book to love. People either love it to death, or can't read it at all. I have already sent you a list via email, but then I thought, "Wait a minute. This is a great list to share with my readers." So here you go, darlings. The books below are not exactly like Irkadura, and many have made a powerful impact on the world literature unlike Irkadura, which hardly compares, but they have the same kind of darkness and bite and directness and yearning, and I loved every one of them, so I'm sure you will too. There is no particular order to how I've listed them, I was just typing titles as they came to mind.

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Push by Sapphire
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova

This should keep you busy. Till Janna. Because Janna will trump Irkadura. I think. Or maybe not. You will tell me, I'm sure. Oh, and if you think there are other books that I have missed, please tell me! I would love to read them. (Never mind my reading list of 300+ books, I CAN ALWAYS ADD MORE.)