21 Best fiction books like The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3) by A.J. Hackwith

Cover of The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3) by A.J. Hackwith

The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

By: A.J. Hackwith

4.20

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

To save the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, former librarian Claire and her allies may have to de…

"I won't know the right words..... No writer ever does. The words will be right eventually."

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"A library does not have a name; a library has all of them. A library is not a place; a library is a purpose. A library does not have eyes, a library has I's."

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"Listen. That's the part of the librarian's job that everyone forgets. Listen. Listen to your books, listen to your patrons. Listen to your enemies, even; when they're maddest is when you know you're doing something right. A librarian's job is to listen. A library's job is to be a place where the hopeless can feel seen and heard too."

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"The patron god of the library is the one who needs it, who claims the necessity of a place of stories and souls and is willing to build it. Sometimes that's the librarians and curators, sometimes that's the storytellers, but sometimes? Sometimes it's just you. You, the reader, who found your wild and winding way to the pages. You have a library inside you, do you not? Stories, told and untold. That is the power of gods."

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

If you liked the fiction plot in The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3) by A.J. Hackwith , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) by Hannah Kaner

1. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kaner's Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) book and A.J. Hackwith's The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
"But gods love martyrs."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Cover of Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) by Seanan McGuire

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

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

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

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

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

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

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

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

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

Cover of Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1) by Rebecca  Thorne

3. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)

By: Rebecca Thorne

3.82

Format: 388 pages, ebook

All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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

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

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

Cover of The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) by Mark  Lawrence

5. The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Woul… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lawrence's The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) book and A.J. Hackwith's The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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6. 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

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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 Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) by Seanan McGuire

7. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) book and A.J. Hackwith's The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

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8. The Book Eaters

By: Sunyi Dean

3.64

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain al… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • queer
"None of us are truly good,"

-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

"How did one give shape to absence? Fill a black hole with light?"

-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

"Love has no cost for our children. Living or dead, here or gone."

-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

"I am not those people and I’m also not me. I can’t ever be me, I’m too full of other lives."

-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

Cover of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

9. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) book and A.J. Hackwith's The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

Cover of The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2) by Garth Nix

10. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2) book and A.J. Hackwith's The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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 Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3) by Olivie Blake

12. The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

By: Olivie Blake

2.90

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Is this actually possible?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"It means the archives are “alive"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I will spend my life orbiting your,"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I'm constantly at risk for peril. Ask anyone!"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

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13. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

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  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

Cover of The Untold Story (The Invisible Library, #8) by Genevieve Cogman

14. The Untold Story (The Invisible Library, #8)

By: Genevieve Cogman

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In this thrilling historical fantasy, time-traveling Librarian spy Irene will need to delve deep in… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Stories are like that. They’ll wait for you until you can come back to them."

-Genevieve Cogman, The Untold Story (The Invisible Library, #8)

Cover of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark  Lawrence

15. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

By: Mark Lawrence

None

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than ci… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • books about books
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16. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.94

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
"Some things are done out of love."

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

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17. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

Cover of Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2) by T.L. Huchu

18. Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2)

By: T.L. Huchu

3.92

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

“Alluring, shadowy Edinburgh with its hints of sophisticated academic magic will draw you in, but i… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3) by A.J. Hackwith

19. The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

By: A.J. Hackwith

4.20

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

To save the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, former librarian Claire and her allies may have to de… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • books about books
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
"I won't know the right words..... No writer ever does. The words will be right eventually."

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"A library does not have a name; a library has all of them. A library is not a place; a library is a purpose. A library does not have eyes, a library has I's."

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"Listen. That's the part of the librarian's job that everyone forgets. Listen. Listen to your books, listen to your patrons. Listen to your enemies, even; when they're maddest is when you know you're …"

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"The patron god of the library is the one who needs it, who claims the necessity of a place of stories and souls and is willing to build it. Sometimes that's the librarians and curators, sometimes tha…"

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

Cover of The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle (Edinburgh Nights, #3) by T.L. Huchu

20. The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle (Edinburgh Nights, #3)

By: T.L. Huchu

3.92

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Everyone’s favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptica… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Engines of Oblivion (The Memory War, #2) by Karen Osborne

21. Engines of Oblivion (The Memory War, #2)

By: Karen Osborne

3.78

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Karen Osborne continues her science fiction action and adventure series the Memory War with Engines… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

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Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)

Rebecca Thorne

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