21 Best fiction books like In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

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Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• retellings
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

"See you in the story past the story."

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

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• fiction
• science fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"They supposedly had golden hair, like yours, the color of sunlight."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"Well, this isn't the part of the story where you ask questions. So kindly keep them to yourself."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"If we let it, memory can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• adult
• fantasy
• fiction
• audiobook

"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Victoria Schwab's The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1) book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

"A head gets lost, but a heart knows home."

-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

"Is it possible to have a death wish when you know you cannot die?"

-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

"Just because we do not carry on doesn't mean we haven't been. We live a life, we leave a legacy. But the river runs one way and we are carried on it."

-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

"I always wanted one. I don't know why. It wasn't ego. Some women just want to see their own reflection. I wanted to know what it felt like. To make another person. And then, when she was here, I want…"

-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"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)

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• adult
• fantasy
• fiction
• audiobook

" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"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)

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

Similar categories in T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• audiobook
• retellings
• lgbt
• dystopia
• fiction
• science fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

"Hap?"

-T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

"I found you. I fixed you. I saved you, but you did the same for me."

-T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

"Humans were foolish. Careless. Cruel. But only a few. Most were full of light."

-T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

"I've made my choice. I need you to make yours. You're not a puppet. Not anymore."

-T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Similar categories in Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• adult
• fantasy
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Emma Törzs's Ink Blood Sister Scribe book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Secrets were currency and Isabel intended to stay rich."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"...the closet of her sexual subconscious was full of petticoats."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's The Unmaking of June Farrow book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped w…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no b…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would …"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

Similar categories in Sangu Mandanna's The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches book and T.J. Klune's In the Lives of Puppets

• romance
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• audiobook

"The thing is, being a witch is extraordinary,"

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"That was some excellent Mary Poppins shit right there."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"I can’t transform the world, Jamie. The world’s too big and too messy and too stubborn."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"Trust is earned.' 'It is. But that’s only possible if someone’s willing to give you a chance."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches