5 best-selling urban fantasy books like Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai

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Bitter Medicine

By: Mia Tsai

3.69

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

In this xianxia-inspired contemporary fantasy, a Chinese immortal and a French elf navigate romance…

"She tries to speak, but he licks the words from her."

-Mia Tsai, Bitter Medicine

"Luc: After hundreds of years I have found the only other terrible prospect who understands me. She's brave and funny, but she thinks she's only valued for what she can do instead of who she is. After a dramatic life event she's convinced I don't want her. I have no useful skills to benefit her, and a job that constantly disrupts my life. I'm also going to outlive her by a hundred years. Elle: Yeah, that's pretty terrible. Luc: Maybe even 200 years. Elle: Don't rub it in. You can join the club. The San Francisco chapter of Terrible Prospects International."

-Mia Tsai, Bitter Medicine

If you liked the urban fantasy plot in Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

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 Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

2. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • magic
  • 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

Cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

3. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

Similar categories in Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Capture the Sun (Starlight's Shadow, #3) by Jessie Mihalik

4. Capture the Sun (Starlight's Shadow, #3)

By: Jessie Mihalik

3.76

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed author Jessie Mihalik returns with the thrilling conclusion to her Starlight’s Shadow tri… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Mihalik's Capture the Sun (Starlight's Shadow, #3) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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)

Cover of The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

6. The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more

Similar categories in Justinian Huang's The Emperor and the Endless Palace book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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7. 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 Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • lgbt
  • 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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8. 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 Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

9. 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 Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Ebony Gate (Phoenix Hoard, #1) by Julia Vee

10. Ebony Gate (Phoenix Hoard, #1)

By: Julia Vee

3.85

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemp… read more

Similar categories in Julia Vee's Ebony Gate (Phoenix Hoard, #1) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Some people have cats. I have a lion."

-Julia Vee, Ebony Gate (Phoenix Hoard, #1)

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

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 Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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. 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 Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • magic
  • 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)

Cover of The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1) by Sophie Kim

13. The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1)

By: Sophie Kim

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Kim's The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1) by Moses Ose Utomi

14. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.21

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more

Similar categories in Moses Ose Utomi's The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu

15. 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 Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • urban fantasy
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
Cover of The Marquis Who Mustn't (Wedgeford Trials, #2) by Courtney Milan

16. The Marquis Who Mustn't (Wedgeford Trials, #2)

By: Courtney Milan

4.25

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

One good fraud deserves another… Miss Naomi Kwan has long wanted to take ambulance classes so that … read more

Similar categories in Courtney Milan's The Marquis Who Mustn't (Wedgeford Trials, #2) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Mortal Follies by Alexis  Hall

17. Mortal Follies

By: Alexis Hall

3.43

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A young noblewoman must pair up with a rumoured witch to ward off a curse. It is the year 1814 a… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Hall's Mortal Follies book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I’ve half a mind to seek her out right now and tell her to corrupt my daughter immediately"

-Alexis Hall, Mortal Follies

Cover of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1) by Amélie Wen Zhao

18. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

By: Amélie Wen Zhao

3.80

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation’s past—and u… read more

Similar categories in Amélie Wen Zhao's Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A sword's purpose may be determined by its wielder, but take the weapon away entirely, and neither the merciful nor the cruel may draw blood with it."

-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

"What use are tears? Ying had murmured to her once, back when they had just crossed their twelfth cycle of life and the wounds of Lan’s losses still cut deep every night. The dead will neither feel th…"

-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

"What use are tears? Ying had murmured to her once, back when they had just crossed their twelfth cycle of life and the wounds of Lan’s losses still cut deep every night. The dead will neither feel th…"

-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

Cover of Calamity (Uncharted Hearts, #1) by Constance Fay

19. Calamity (Uncharted Hearts, #1)

By: Constance Fay

3.79

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Bramble's inaugural debut is equal parts steamy interstellar romance and sci-fi adventure, perfect … read more

Similar categories in Constance Fay's Calamity (Uncharted Hearts, #1) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai

20. Bitter Medicine

By: Mia Tsai

3.69

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

In this xianxia-inspired contemporary fantasy, a Chinese immortal and a French elf navigate romance… read more

Similar categories in Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"She tries to speak, but he licks the words from her."

-Mia Tsai, Bitter Medicine

"Luc: After hundreds of years I have found the only other terrible prospect who understands me. She's brave and funny, but she thinks she's only valued for what she can do instead of who she is. After…"

-Mia Tsai, Bitter Medicine

Cover of Splintered Mind (Shattered World Book 1) by W.R. Gingell

21. Splintered Mind (Shattered World Book 1)

By: W.R. Gingell

4.70

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Viv just wants work—any work. Well, not quite any work. But she’s desperate enough to accept a job … read more

Similar categories in W.R. Gingell's Splintered Mind (Shattered World Book 1) book and Mia Tsai's Bitter Medicine

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

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4.17

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Olivia Dade

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K.J. Charles

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