19 best-selling fantasy books like The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

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The Monsters We Defy

By: Leslye Penelope

4.12

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to …

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope , here is a list of 19 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 Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
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 Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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 Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

4. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"See you in the story past the story."

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

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5. Tread of Angels

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.48

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Tread of Angels book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels

Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

6. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

7. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

8. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

By: Shannon Chakraborty

4.27

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

9. The Monsters We Defy

By: Leslye Penelope

4.12

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to … read more

Similar categories in Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • urban fantasy
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

10. Ink Blood Sister Scribe

By: Emma Törzs

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's li… read more

Similar categories in Emma Törzs's Ink Blood Sister Scribe book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • urban fantasy
  • 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

Cover of The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E.M.   Anderson

11. The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher

By: E.M. Anderson

3.75

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

You're never too old for adventure. When you’re a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Anderson's The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland

12. Rust in the Root

By: Justina Ireland

4.09

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbindin… read more

Similar categories in Justina Ireland's Rust in the Root book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex  Jennings

13. The Ballad of Perilous Graves

By: Alex Jennings

3.58

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

In a fantastical version of New Orleans where music is magic, a battle for the city’s soul brews be… read more

Similar categories in Alex Jennings's The Ballad of Perilous Graves book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

14. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

15. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1) by Danielle Allen

16. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)

By: Danielle Allen

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Allen's Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1) book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

17. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

Similar categories in LaDarrion Williams's Blood at the Root book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Girl Who Kept the Castle by Ryan Graudin

18. The Girl Who Kept the Castle

By: Ryan Graudin

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Wizard West was dead for nearly an entire day before he noticed. And it is up to Faye, the daughter… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Graudin's The Girl Who Kept the Castle book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bright and the Blue (The Wilderise Tales #2) by Amy Yorke

19. The Bright and the Blue (The Wilderise Tales #2)

By: Amy Yorke

3.66

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Rinka is done with the city. She’s done with the job she’s always hated, she’s done with the never-… read more

Similar categories in Amy Yorke's The Bright and the Blue (The Wilderise Tales #2) book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • fantasy
Cover of The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko

20. The Maid and the Crocodile

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start a revolution. In the magic-soaked capital … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Ifueko's The Maid and the Crocodile book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Archangels of Funk

By: Andrea Hairston

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Run from your past. Hide from your future. Protect your present. The Water Wars have scrambled t… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Hairston's Archangels of Funk book and Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

20 must-read fiction books like The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

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

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

Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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21 Top fiction books like Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

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

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

None

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Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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