14 must-read fantasy books like If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu

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If Found, Return to Hell

By: Em X. Liu

3.83

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yell…

If you liked the fantasy plot in If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu , here is a list of 14 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 Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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2. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2) book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5)

By: Cat Sebastian

4.20

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

North Carolina, 1953 Billy Reardon’s spent the past five years trying and failing to keep his te… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5) book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • novella
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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4. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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5. 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 Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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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6. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. The Mars House

By: Natasha Pulley

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Mars House book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. Death in the Spires

By: K.J. Charles

4.42

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby d… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Death in the Spires book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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9. A Theory of Haunting

By: Sarah Monette

3.95

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Kyle Murchison Booth, archivist at the Parrington Museum, has heard of Thirdhop Scarp. Everyone has… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Monette's A Theory of Haunting book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
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10. 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 Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • fiction
  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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12. 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 Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • urban fantasy
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Wanted, A Gentleman by K.J. Charles

13. Wanted, A Gentleman

By: K.J. Charles

4.07

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Theodore Swann is a jobbing writer, proprietor of the Matrimonial Advertiser lonely hearts gazette,… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Wanted, A Gentleman book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • novella
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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14. 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 Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Cover of If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu

16. If Found, Return to Hell

By: Em X. Liu

3.83

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yell… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • urban fantasy
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • magic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. Running Close to the Wind

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Running Close to the Wind book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. 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 Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. The Shabti

By: Megaera C. Lorenz

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Can you flimflam a ghost? It’s 1934. Former medium Dashiel Quicke travels the country debunking spi… read more

Similar categories in Megaera C. Lorenz's The Shabti book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • queer
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20. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's I Am AI: A Novelette book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2) by K.J. Charles

21. The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Don't miss the second thrilling Regency romance in the Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series by KJ … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2) book and Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

21 best-selling fiction books like If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

K.J. Charles

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5)

Cat Sebastian

4.20

Transform Your Habits

A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

Freya Marske

4.29

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You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

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The Mars House

Natasha Pulley

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Death in the Spires

K.J. Charles

4.42

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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

K.J. Charles

4.17

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