"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.

1. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
2. There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
3. There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
4. Push by Sapphire
5. Cruddy by Lynda Barry
6. The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
7. The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
8. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
9. The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
10. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
11. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
12. 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.)