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Across War & Military, Linguistics, Language Arts & Disciplines, and Military — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu.

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Ball Lightning — in theme, mood, or literary style.

86–EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 5 (light Novel) Death, Be Not Proud — Asato Asato

86–EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 5 (light Novel) Death, Be Not Proud

Themes: War & Military • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Crest of the Stars Volumes 1-3 Collector’s Edition (Light Novel) — Hiroyuki Morioka

Crest of the Stars Volumes 1-3 Collector’s Edition (Light Novel)

Hiroyuki Morioka

Themes: War & Military • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Mountains Sing Runner-Up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize — Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

The Mountains Sing Runner-Up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Themes: War & Military • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Wrong Goodbye — Toshihiko Yahagi

The Wrong Goodbye

Toshihiko Yahagi

Themes: War & Military • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Alan M. Turing Centenary Edition — Sara Turing

Alan M. Turing Centenary Edition

Themes: War & Military • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Serve the People! — Yan Lianke

Serve the People!

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Into the Quagmire Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War — Brian VanDeMark

Into the Quagmire Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War

Brian VanDeMark

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace — Ira Chernus

Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Clausewitz’s Puzzle The Political Theory of War — Andreas Herberg-Rothe

Clausewitz’s Puzzle The Political Theory of War

Andreas Herberg-Rothe

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Meanings of War and Peace — Francis A. Beer

Meanings of War and Peace

Francis A. Beer

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Swear Like a Trooper A Dictionary of Military Terms and Phrases — William L. Priest

Swear Like a Trooper A Dictionary of Military Terms and Phrases

William L. Priest

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

The Iliad and the Odyssey The Trojan War: Tragedy and Aftermath — Jan Parker

The Iliad and the Odyssey The Trojan War: Tragedy and Aftermath

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Road Traffic Law — Simon Cooper

Road Traffic Law — Simon Cooper

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Optimism Over Despair On Capitalism, Empire and Social Change — Noam Chomsky

Optimism Over Despair On Capitalism, Empire and Social Change

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Manipulating Masculinity War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature — K. Phillips

Manipulating Masculinity War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered Beyond Modern Memory — P. Quinn

The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered Beyond Modern Memory

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

‘Far, Far from Home’ The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers — Richard Wright Simpson

‘Far, Far from Home’ The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers

Richard Wright Simpson

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Fetish, Recognition, Revolution — James T. Siegel

Fetish, Recognition, Revolution

James T. Siegel

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings — Thomas Paine

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Military

The Ghosts of Trappist — K. B. Wagers

The Ghosts of Trappist

Themes: War & Military • Military • Science Fiction

StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel’Naga Blizzard Legends — Gabriel Mesta

StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel’Naga Blizzard Legends

Themes: War & Military • Military • Science Fiction

The Last Oracle A Sigma Force Novel — James Rollins

The Last Oracle A Sigma Force Novel

Themes: War & Military • Military • Science Fiction

Maelstrom Destroyermen — Taylor Anderson

Maelstrom Destroyermen

Taylor Anderson

Themes: War & Military • Military • Science Fiction

Bofuri: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense. , Vol. 13 (light Novel) — Yuumikan (Author)

Bofuri: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense. , Vol. 13 (light Novel)

Yuumikan (Author)

Themes: Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines • Science Fiction

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of War & Military, Linguistics, Language Arts & Disciplines — the same threads that run through Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu. Among the authors featured: Asato Asato, Hiroyuki Morioka, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Toshihiko Yahagi, and others.

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Three-Body Problem Boxed Set (The Three-Body Problem, the Dark Forest, Death’s End) — Cixin Liu

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