12 must-read mystery books like The Municipalists by Seth Fried

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The Municipalists

By: Seth Fried

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the …

"Just my luck. The first colleague I'd befriended at the agency and it was an alcoholic supercomputer."

-Seth Fried, The Municipalists

"Just my luck. The first colleague I'd befriended at the agency and it was an alcoholic supercomputer."

-Seth Fried, The Municipalists

"Here, pay attention, what I'm about to tell you is the truest, most important thing: None of us is right."

-Seth Fried, The Municipalists

"Here, pay attention, what I'm about to tell you is the truest, most important thing: None of us is right."

-Seth Fried, The Municipalists

If you liked the mystery plot in The Municipalists by Seth Fried , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

1. The Book of Joan

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending… read more

Similar categories in Lidia Yuknavitch's The Book of Joan book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

2. Early Riser

By: Jasper Fforde

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies danger… read more

Similar categories in Jasper Fforde's Early Riser book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • humor
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook

3. Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina

By: Barbara Hambly , Kevin J. Anderson , Timothy Zahn , Dave Wolverton , Jennifer Roberson , Rebecca Moesta , Tom Veitch , David Bischoff , Kathy Tyers , Garfield Reeves-Stevens , A.C. Crispin , M. Shayne Bell , Jerry Oltion , None , Judith Reeves-Stevens , Kenneth C. Flint , Daniel Keys Moran , None

3.67

Format: 117 pages,

Sixteen stories from the most infamous cantina in the universe...by some of today's leading writers… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Hambly's Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

4. Startup

By: Doree Shafrir

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that… read more

Similar categories in Doree Shafrir's Startup book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

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5. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's The Future book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

Cover of The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

6. The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

4.01

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Fox Wife book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

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7. Camp Zero

By: Michelle Min Sterling

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intert… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Min Sterling's Camp Zero book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

Cover of The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

8. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

Cover of Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

9. Dragonfruit

By: Makiia Lucier

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythol… read more

Similar categories in Makiia Lucier's Dragonfruit book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"May Taga find your spirit and guide you home to the sea beyond. In clear water where danger will never catch you. Among the coral and caves where the bounty is full. Alongside your ancestors and thei…"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

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10. The Helsinki Affair

By: Anna Pitoniak

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

CIA agent Amanda Cole is thrust into an international conspiracy involving high-profile assassinati… read more

Similar categories in Anna Pitoniak's The Helsinki Affair book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers by Victor LaValle

11. A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

By: Victor LaValle

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love come… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women." She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"Father sat in his easy chair, occasionally shaking his head and saying how this was just the way the cycle worked—one time they vote for what they believe themselves to be and the next they get angry…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"It’s quiet for a second and so I start to think. About how people take from each other. They take and take. Our world itself is a great big taking. And life is just giving. We give away everything we…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

Cover of The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen

12. The Kingdom of Sweets

By: Erika Johansen

3.24

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author of the Queen of the Tearling series, Erika Johansen, journeys to a new kingdom i… read more

Similar categories in Erika Johansen's The Kingdom of Sweets book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Names are only a lessening, child. They do not describe us. Before my real life began, I was enslaved, but I have left that time behind. In the years since, I have been called many things by many peo…"

-Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

Cover of Ascension by Nicholas Binge

13. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of DeadEndia: The Divine Order (DeadEndia, #3) by Hamish Steele

14. DeadEndia: The Divine Order (DeadEndia, #3)

By: Hamish Steele

4.67

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Eisner Award–winning creator Hamish Steele’s DeadEndia series is Steven Universe meets Adventure Ti… read more

Similar categories in Hamish Steele's DeadEndia: The Divine Order (DeadEndia, #3) book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • fantasy
Cover of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

15. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

Similar categories in Sierra Greer's Annie Bot book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Counterweight by Djuna

16. Counterweight

By: Djuna

3.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more

Similar categories in Djuna's Counterweight book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Chilling Effect (Chilling Effect, #1) by Valerie Valdes

17. Chilling Effect (Chilling Effect, #1)

By: Valerie Valdes

3.53

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and … read more

Similar categories in Valerie Valdes's Chilling Effect (Chilling Effect, #1) book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • humor
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. Golden State

By: Ben H. Winters

3.47

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Golden State book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"They are Librarians, and they do not fuck around."

-Ben H. Winters, Golden State

"After all, they'll tell you, everything that happens belongs to the State, and a thought is just an event that happens in your head."

-Ben H. Winters, Golden State

"What we know of the past is enough to be afraid, enough to build this world, our good and golden world, around preventing a repeat of the mistakes that destroyed the world before."

-Ben H. Winters, Golden State

"Because just imagine--just imaging the alternative, the world in which a man encounters some scrap of information, about the murder rate in his neighborhood, or about the presence of troops on the no…"

-Ben H. Winters, Golden State

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19. The Wilderwomen

By: Ruth Emmie Lang

3.50

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Ohioana Book Award finalist Ruth Emmie Lang returns with a new cast of ordinary characters with ext… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Emmie Lang's The Wilderwomen book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Middletide by Sarah Crouch

20. Middletide

By: Sarah Crouch

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Crouch's Middletide book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet

21. Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Jennine Capó Crucet

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to … read more

Similar categories in Jennine Capó Crucet's Say Hello to My Little Friend book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Bronze Drum by Phong  Nguyen

22. Bronze Drum

By: Phong Nguyen

3.37

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A stunning novel of ancient Vietnam based on the true story of two warrior sisters who raised an ar… read more

Similar categories in Phong Nguyen's Bronze Drum book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lin's Here After book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • audiobook
Cover of Yellow cab by Christophe Chabouté

24. Yellow cab

By: Christophe Chabouté

3.66

Format: None pages, None

Kristof Šabute je jedan od najznačajnijih predstavnika francuskog autorskog stripa. Njegov najnovij… read more

Similar categories in Christophe Chabouté's Yellow cab book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • fiction
Cover of We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen

25. We Could Be Heroes

By: Mike Chen

3.43

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary and emotional adventure about unlikely friends and the power of choosing who you w… read more

Similar categories in Mike Chen's We Could Be Heroes book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If you're the one everyone relies on, if you take on people's burdens, sometimes there's just not that much left of you."

-Mike Chen, We Could Be Heroes

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26. The Municipalists

By: Seth Fried

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the … read more

Similar categories in Seth Fried's The Municipalists book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • humor
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Just my luck. The first colleague I'd befriended at the agency and it was an alcoholic supercomputer."

-Seth Fried, The Municipalists

"Here, pay attention, what I'm about to tell you is the truest, most important thing: None of us is right."

-Seth Fried, The Municipalists

"A man holding an assault rifle ordered me out into the hallway. There was a whole tactical assault team standing behind him. “This is so flattering,"

-Seth Fried, The Municipalists

"Couldn’t you have lied about something else?" OWEN gave me a long, blank look, as if by asking this question I had betrayed a fundamental lack of understanding with respect to the intensity of his ha…"

-Seth Fried, The Municipalists

Cover of The Socialite's Guide to Murder (Pinnacle Hotel Mystery, #1) by S.K. Golden

27. The Socialite's Guide to Murder (Pinnacle Hotel Mystery, #1)

By: S.K. Golden

3.41

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The hotel was her refuge, but scandal is afoot—and a killer stalks the halls in this charming serie… read more

Similar categories in S.K. Golden's The Socialite's Guide to Murder (Pinnacle Hotel Mystery, #1) book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Volume 0: Issue One by Juliet Escoria

28. Volume 0: Issue One

By: Juliet Escoria

3.31

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Darker. Edgier. Strang-er We like our stories intense, offbeat, and fun in the slightly naughty … read more

Similar categories in Juliet Escoria's Volume 0: Issue One book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • fiction
Cover of Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

29. Bluebird

By: Ciel Pierlot

3.87

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space! Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a g… read more

Similar categories in Ciel Pierlot's Bluebird book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

30. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Saga #68 by Brian K. Vaughan

31. Saga #68

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.16

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

The show must go on, right? read more

Similar categories in Brian K. Vaughan's Saga #68 book and Seth Fried's The Municipalists

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

27 Top fiction books like The Municipalists by Seth Fried

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Joan

Lidia Yuknavitch

4.00

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Jasper Fforde

3.80

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Naomi Alderman

3.86

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Yangsze Choo

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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Lone Women

Victor LaValle

3.72

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