18 Top fantasy books like Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher

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Minor Mage

By: T. Kingfisher

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Oliver was a very minor mage. His familiar reminded him of this several times a day. He only kne…

"You’re a cynical kid,"

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"Can I ask a question?"

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"They didn’t know there would be ghuls, and they didn’t really mean to send me off the way they did. They were scared, that’s all."

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"What good was such a short article? Why didn’t it tell you what you really needed to know, like how far a ghul would follow you, or if they were attached to their home territories? The entry for unicorns was twice as long, and what good was that to anybody? Unicorns were cowards and only dangerous in packs. Every now and then you’d get one hanging around the village trash heap, but it’d run off if you yelled at it. But there it was, six whole paragraphs, and meanwhile he knew no more about ghuls than he had an hour ago."

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

If you liked the fantasy plot in Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew

By: Ursula Vernon

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Nurk is a quiet homebody of a shrew. But when a mysterious plea for help arrives in the mail, he in… read more

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2. Black Dogs Part One: The House of Diamond

By: Ursula Vernon

4.26

Format: 168 pages,

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3. Castle Hangnail

By: Ursula Vernon

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Dragonbreath comes a tale of witches, minions, and one fantastic castle, just r… read more

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4. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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5. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • novella
  • humor
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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6. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

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7. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

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8. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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9. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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10. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

11. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

12. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

Cover of Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2) by Olivia Atwater

13. Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

By: Olivia Atwater

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea wh… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A faerie told me that true love's kiss could wake Miss Buckley," Effie told him. "I cannot think of any truer or more unconditional love than that of a dog."

-Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

"Lady Panovar made mention of her French maid about a dozen times last night," Mrs Sedgewick informed the staff tiredly. "Lady Culver ended the night in a fury. She has insisted that I should find her…"

-Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

14. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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15. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) by Django Wexler

16. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a … read more

Similar categories in Django Wexler's How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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17. Minor Mage

By: T. Kingfisher

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Oliver was a very minor mage. His familiar reminded him of this several times a day. He only kne… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • novella
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"You’re a cynical kid,"

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"Can I ask a question?"

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"They didn’t know there would be ghuls, and they didn’t really mean to send me off the way they did. They were scared, that’s all."

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"What good was such a short article? Why didn’t it tell you what you really needed to know, like how far a ghul would follow you, or if they were attached to their home territories? The entry for unic…"

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

Cover of The Mountain of Iron (Black Dogs, #2) by Ursula Vernon

18. The Mountain of Iron (Black Dogs, #2)

By: Ursula Vernon

4.29

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Black Dogs: The Mountain of Iron is the second of two volumes chronicling the adventures of young L… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Vernon's The Mountain of Iron (Black Dogs, #2) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
Cover of The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

19. The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.16

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul. Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark … read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Veils and Villains (The Weary Dragon Inn, #6) by S. Usher Evans

20. Veils and Villains (The Weary Dragon Inn, #6)

By: S. Usher Evans

4.21

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the wedding of the year in Pigsend, at least if you talk to Vicky Hamblin. The bride-to-be is … read more

Similar categories in S. Usher Evans's Veils and Villains (The Weary Dragon Inn, #6) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • fantasy
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

21. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) book and T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage

  • adventure
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy

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