17 must-read fantasy books like A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

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A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the…

"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

If you liked the fantasy plot in A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. 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 Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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2. 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 Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(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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3. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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4. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) by Emma Mieko Candon

6. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

Similar categories in Emma Mieko Candon's The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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11. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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13. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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15. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By: Eddie Robson

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

Cover of A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

16. A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

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17. Neom

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Machines roam the desert in search of purpose; works of art can be deadlier than weapons, and impro… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Neom book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

18. The Genesis of Misery

By: Neon Yang

3.44

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy from Neon Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven, full … read more

Similar categories in Neon Yang's The Genesis of Misery book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. Lady Eve's Last Con

By: Rebecca Fraimow

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hearts will race and anti-grav boots will fly in this scifi rom-com perfect for fans of WINTER'S OR… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Fraimow's Lady Eve's Last Con book and Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. The Splinter in the Sky

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) about a … read more

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

20 Top fiction books like A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

Mur Lafferty

3.71

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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