14 best-selling fantasy books like The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

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The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to …

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1. Binti (Binti, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.95

Format: 145 pages, ebook

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more

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2. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
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3. 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 P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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4. 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 P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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6. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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7. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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8. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

By: Nghi Vo

4.18

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

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10. The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

By: Saad Z. Hossain

4.06

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Cuando Melek Ahmar, uno de los siete Señores Djinn, despierta de su encierro milenario, apenas reco… read more

Similar categories in Saad Z. Hossain's The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Gurung smiled. "I know just where to find many people needing decapitation. But first, a nap."

-Saad Z. Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

"Vomit, piss, blood, and unlikely amounts of semen pooled on almost every level surface, accompanied by lewd graffiti and knife marks gouging the walls, as well as various fist-sized holes, burns, aci…"

-Saad Z. Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

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11. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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12. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • historical
  • novella
  • alternate history
  • steampunk
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. La quinta bruja

By: Angela Slatter

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Las calles de Whitechapel destilan secretos, brujería y muerte. Kit Caswell es una joven policía… read more

Similar categories in Angela Slatter's La quinta bruja book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • historical
  • fiction
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15. Intermnemosis

By: Celia Corral-Vázquez

4.09

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Ya no hay vuelta atrás. Han secuestrado una nave, a una doctora y al último espécimen que queda de … read more

Similar categories in Celia Corral-Vázquez's Intermnemosis book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • science fiction
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16. The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.17

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi returns to his Forever Desert series with The Truth of the Aleke , continuing his e… read more

Similar categories in Moses Ose Utomi's The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2) book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. El velo

By: Greta Mustieles Salvador

3.94

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Mi nombre es Sidaya, hija de Yrea, nacida en Isla Verde. Guerrera de las huestes de Riela, superviv… read more

Similar categories in Greta Mustieles Salvador's El velo book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • fantasy
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18. La sonrisa del escorpión

By: Celia Añó

4.04

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Un juego de lo más retorcido. Doce participantes. Y una serie de misteriosos asesinatos. En el p… read more

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19. Budapest

By: Nieves Mories

3.69

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Un brindis a la salud de las historias amargas con finales trágicos La Ciudad. La otra orilla. H… read more

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20. The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar

By: Indra Das

4.22

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

Ru is a boy from nowhere. Though he lives somewhere—the city of Calcutta—his classmates in school r… read more

Similar categories in Indra Das's The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar book and P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. La canción de arena

By: David Mancera

3.63

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Somos el pueblo que estuvo y estará. Nosotros cantamos la canción del mundo...» Cuando su pad… read more

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  • fantasy

9 Top audiobook books like The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Transform Your Habits

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

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

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

Nghi Vo

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Untethered Sky

Fonda Lee

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Deep

Rivers Solomon

3.78

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21 best-selling fiction books like When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2) by Nghi Vo

Transform Your Habits

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

Seanan McGuire

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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