17 Best fantasy books like Last Exit by Max Gladstone

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Last Exit

By: Max Gladstone

3.65

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, Zelda led a band of merry adventurers whose knacks let them travel to alternate real…

"Zelda’s eyes were so wide and so trusting. No trace of doubt that Sarah would fix this, because Sarah was her friend, and friends were omnipotent. Sarah would make everything okay."

-Max Gladstone, Last Exit

"Zelda’s eyes were so wide and so trusting. No trace of doubt that Sarah would fix this, because Sarah was her friend, and friends were omnipotent. Sarah would make everything okay."

-Max Gladstone, Last Exit

"What if you could peel a pearl? Take a fine knife and a magnifying glass and strip the layers of glint and glimmer year by year, until at last you reached the bit of wrong that had birthed the shine. But you’d have no pearl left."

-Max Gladstone, Last Exit

"What if you could peel a pearl? Take a fine knife and a magnifying glass and strip the layers of glint and glimmer year by year, until at last you reached the bit of wrong that had birthed the shine. But you’d have no pearl left."

-Max Gladstone, Last Exit

If you liked the fantasy plot in Last Exit by Max Gladstone , here is a list of 17 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 Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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2. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's Spear book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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3. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

Cover of Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) by Tamsyn Muir

4. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Love and freedom don't coexist."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Cover of Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) by Mur Lafferty

5. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Furious Heaven (The Sun Chronicles, #2) by Kate Elliott

6. Furious Heaven (The Sun Chronicles, #2)

By: Kate Elliott

4.25

Format: 1081 pages, Kindle Edition

Non-stop action, space battles and intrigue abound in the second in a galactic-scale, gender-swappe… read more

Similar categories in Kate Elliott's Furious Heaven (The Sun Chronicles, #2) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. 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 Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science 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 The Grief of Stones  (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) by Katherine Addison

8. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Addison's The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. 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 Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

Cover of Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3) by Charles Stross

11. Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)

By: Charles Stross

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Lovecraftian Laundry Files se… read more

Similar categories in Charles Stross's Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5) by Charles Stross

12. Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

By: Charles Stross

3.93

Format: 81 pages, Hardcover

Regular readers of Charles Stross's Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard's absence from the … read more

Similar categories in Charles Stross's Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There's enough irony in my situation that a skilled blacksmith could turn it into a katana."

-Charles Stross, Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

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13. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's Exordia book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Under Fortunate Stars

By: Ren Hutchings

3.93

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's f… read more

Similar categories in Ren Hutchings's Under Fortunate Stars book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

15. Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

A god wages war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the Founders … read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It'll just go on. More fixes gone awry. The mad pride of men who think themselves engineers of all creation."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

"No. There are people in this world who learned the lessons I never did, the lessons that our son has learned all too late - that you are right. There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be …"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

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16. A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

Cover of Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2) by Lina Rather

17. Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2)

By: Lina Rather

3.81

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Thousand Eyes  (The Serpent Gates, #2) by A.K. Larkwood

18. The Thousand Eyes (The Serpent Gates, #2)

By: A.K. Larkwood

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to A. K. Larkwood's stunning debut fantasy, The Unspoken Name, The Thousand Eyes continu… read more

Similar categories in A.K. Larkwood's The Thousand Eyes (The Serpent Gates, #2) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"If there ever comes a day when anyone gets what they deserve…then I would still get you, and you would still get me"

-A.K. Larkwood, The Thousand Eyes (The Serpent Gates, #2)

Cover of Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2) by Seanan McGuire

19. Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.83

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fra… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2) book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Last Exit by Max Gladstone

20. Last Exit

By: Max Gladstone

3.65

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, Zelda led a band of merry adventurers whose knacks let them travel to alternate real… read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Last Exit book and Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • urban fantasy
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Zelda’s eyes were so wide and so trusting. No trace of doubt that Sarah would fix this, because Sarah was her friend, and friends were omnipotent. Sarah would make everything okay."

-Max Gladstone, Last Exit

"What if you could peel a pearl? Take a fine knife and a magnifying glass and strip the layers of glint and glimmer year by year, until at last you reached the bit of wrong that had birthed the shine.…"

-Max Gladstone, Last Exit

"She did feel everything she’d said. The despair. Who wouldn’t, if they were paying attention? But you didn’t feel it all the time. You walled it up with purpose. With friendship. With vows and work. …"

-Max Gladstone, Last Exit

Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

21. 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 Max Gladstone's Last Exit

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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