13 Best fantasy books like Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) by Marlon James

Cover of Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) by Marlon James

Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

By: Marlon James

4.18

Format: 626 pages, ebook

From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, …

"No thought is wise just because you have it, girl."

-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

"No thought is wise just because you have it, girl."

-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

"The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women."

-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

"The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women."

-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

If you liked the fantasy plot in Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) by Marlon James , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse

2. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.19

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

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3. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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4. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) by Rebecca Roanhorse

5. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

Cover of The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) by N.K. Jemisin

6. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Dread works best in complete silence."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

Cover of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

7. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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8. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

Similar categories in George Saunders's Liberation Day book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

Cover of Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) by Colson Whitehead

9. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

Cover of The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

10. The Spear Cuts Through Water

By: Simon Jimenez

4.19

Format: 525 pages, Hardcover

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more

Similar categories in Simon Jimenez's The Spear Cuts Through Water book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

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11. Sea of Tranquility

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.07

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more

Similar categories in Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

Cover of The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) by N.K. Jemisin

12. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

13. 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 Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

14. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) by Marlon James

15. Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

By: Marlon James

4.18

Format: 626 pages, ebook

From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, … read more

Similar categories in Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • africa
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"No thought is wise just because you have it, girl."

-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

"The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women."

-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

"Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one."

-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

"Word is divine wish, they say. Word is invisible to all but the gods. So when woman or man write words, they dare to look at the divine."

-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

Cover of On a Woman's Madness by Astrid H. Roemer

16. On a Woman's Madness

By: Astrid H. Roemer

3.43

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in… read more

Similar categories in Astrid H. Roemer's On a Woman's Madness book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer

17. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

By: Soraya Palmer

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in… read more

Similar categories in Soraya Palmer's The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Village Weavers by Myriam J. A. Chancy

18. Village Weavers

By: Myriam J. A. Chancy

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two fami… read more

Similar categories in Myriam J. A. Chancy's Village Weavers book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Gebroken wit by Astrid H. Roemer

19. Gebroken wit

By: Astrid H. Roemer

3.58

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Oma Bee, Louise, Heli, Imker, Babs, Audi. Familienaam Vanta. In Gebroken Wit zijn ze aan elkaar ver… read more

Similar categories in Astrid H. Roemer's Gebroken wit book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • fiction
"In any case, all the memories of those years full of life will soon fade; disease doesn't spare your memories; they will die the very instant she does."

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

"Amazing how sunlight makes a landscape shine in shades of ocean blue, blood red, grass green, and everything in between. A tree with orange blossoms high in its canopy of leaves; blossoms that sway i…"

-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

Cover of Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma

20. Book of the Little Axe

By: Lauren Francis-Sharma

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Francis-Sharma's Book of the Little Axe book and Marlon James's Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Antoine des Gommiers by Lyonel Trouillot

21. Antoine des Gommiers

By: Lyonel Trouillot

4.27

Format: 208 pages, ebook

De ces deux frères, Franky et Ti Tony, l'un est attaché aux mots et aux figures de style quand l'au… read more

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20 Best fiction books like Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) by Marlon James

Transform Your Habits

The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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Transform Your Habits

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

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Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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