8 must-read science fiction books like A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1) by Claire O'Dell

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A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

By: Claire O'Dell

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While treating broken sol…

"I had lived too long in states where you could - for the space of one blink, one breath - pretend there was no difference between white and any other color. My mother said that this belief was more dangerous than the in-your-face racism of the South."

-Claire O'Dell, A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

"I had lived too long in states where you could - for the space of one blink, one breath - pretend there was no difference between white and any other color. My mother said that this belief was more dangerous than the in-your-face racism of the South."

-Claire O'Dell, A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

If you liked the science fiction plot in A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1) by Claire O'Dell , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Like Water

By: Rebecca Podos

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously written and deeply felt literary young adult novel of identity, millennial anxiety, an… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"It's not that sex is so different with Leigh. Okay, obviously it's different. To have the same bits and parts and still fit together so well?"

-Rebecca Podos, Like Water

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2. Arrow's Fall (Heralds of Valdemar, #3)

By: Mercedes Lackey

3.87

Format: 237 pages,

With Elspeth, the heir to the throne of Valdemar, come of marriageable age, Talia, the Queen's Own … read more

Similar categories in Mercedes Lackey's Arrow's Fall (Heralds of Valdemar, #3) book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth. This can be scientifically explain… read more

Similar categories in Shaun David Hutchinson's The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
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4. New Moon (Luna #1)

By: Ian McDonald

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Moon wants to kill you. Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water,… read more

Similar categories in Ian McDonald's New Moon (Luna #1) book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Dead Things (Eric Carter #1)

By: Stephen Blackmoore

3.17

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Necromancer is such an ugly word, but it's a title Eric Carter is stuck with. He sees ghosts, talks… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Blackmoore's Dead Things (Eric Carter #1) book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Ayiti

By: Roxane Gay

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

The debut collection from the vibrant voice of Roxane Gay is a unique blend of fiction, nonfiction,… read more

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  • fiction

7. The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

By: Heidi Heilig

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father's ship, sailing across the centuries, across the wo… read more

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8. Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

By: Jaye Robin Brown

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarr… read more

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9. Jane, Unlimited

By: Kristin Cashore

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you could change your story, would you? Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her rec… read more

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10. Killing Gravity (The Voidwitch Saga, #1)

By: Corey J. White

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Mariam Xi can kill you with her mind. She escaped the MEPHISTO lab where she was raised as a psychi… read more

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11. The Privilege of the Sword (Riverside, #2)

By: Ellen Kushner

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballr… read more

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12. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology an… read more

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13. The Murders of Molly Southbourne

By: Tade Thompson

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

Every time she bleeds a murderer is born. Experience the horror of Tade Thompson's The Murders of M… read more

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14. City of Bones

By: Martha Wells

4.00

Format: 442 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Where once great galleons roamed the sea, sand ships now traverse the Great Waste, and a glitteri… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's City of Bones book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What magic does is to open the mind to the world and sometimes the world isn't what we think it is."

-Martha Wells, City of Bones

15. The Fifth Heart

By: Dan Simmons

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Drood, a historical mystery in which Sherlock Holmes and Henry James team up to… read more

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16. Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing, #1)

By: Vivian Shaw

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive… read more

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17. Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

By: Seanan McGuire

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too… read more

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18. Sawkill Girls

By: Claire Legrand

3.67

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep. … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He'll follow you home and won't let you sleep"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

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19. The Tea Master and the Detective (The Universe of Xuya)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.85

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled hu… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's The Tea Master and the Detective (The Universe of Xuya) book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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20. Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance

By: Jennieke Cohen

3.66

Format: 429 pages, Hardcover

A Jane Austenish historical romance with a dash of mystery! Lady Victoria Aston has everything sh… read more

Similar categories in Jennieke Cohen's Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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21. Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)

By: C.L. Polk

3.87

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigu… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
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22. The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southbourne, #2)

By: Tade Thompson

3.60

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tade Thompson returns to his "bloody exploration of of identity and self in a changed world" (Publi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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23. Fireheart Tiger

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.40

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

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24. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

By: Nino Cipri

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

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25. The Tangleroot Palace

By: Marjorie M. Liu

3.98

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestseller and Hugo, British Fantasy, Romantic Times, and Eisner award-winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Marjorie M. Liu's The Tangleroot Palace book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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26. The Cardigans (Criminal Intentions, #1)

By: Cole McCade

4.00

Format: 212 pages, ebook

When a string of young queer men turn up dead in grisly murders, all signs point to the ex-boyfrien… read more

Similar categories in Cole McCade's The Cardigans (Criminal Intentions, #1) book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
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27. Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

By: Vivian Shaw

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Contemporary fantasy in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, whose family has… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You can’t possibly adopt stray French monsters; wherever would you put it?"

-Vivian Shaw, Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

"I suppose that’s a valid point. The four of us can hang around a little longer before we leave."

-Vivian Shaw, Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

"Winston was hovering in the archway, looking impatient, if a tattered bit of taffeta could look impatient."

-Vivian Shaw, Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

"It really did seem as if something thoroughly out-of-the-ordinary had been built into the structure from the very beginning; a significant proportion of the ironwork girders that supported it had bee…"

-Vivian Shaw, Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

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28. Junk Shop Blues (Criminal Intentions, #2)

By: Cole McCade

4.06

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

A murdered night club mogul unlocks a web of infidelity and deceit. The most likely suspect? The da… read more

Similar categories in Cole McCade's Junk Shop Blues (Criminal Intentions, #2) book and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

  • mystery
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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29. A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

By: Claire O'Dell

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While treating broken sol… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I had lived too long in states where you could - for the space of one blink, one breath - pretend there was no difference between white and any other color. My mother said that this belief was more d…"

-Claire O'Dell, A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1)

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30. The Man with the Glass Eye (Criminal Intentions, #3)

By: Cole McCade

4.13

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

ABOUT THIS EPISODE Multiple execution-style murders hint at a mob hit, but when Malcolm and Seong-… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
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31. The Perfect Assassin (Chronicles of Ghadid, #1)

By: K.A. Doore

3.73

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A novice assassin is on the hunt for someone killing their own in K. A. Doore's The Perfect Assassi… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

17 Best fiction books like A Study in Honor (The Janet Watson Chronicles, #1) by Claire O'Dell

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Like Water

Rebecca Podos

3.68

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Arrow's Fall (Heralds of Valdemar, #3)

Mercedes Lackey

3.87

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New Moon (Luna #1)

Ian McDonald

3.00

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Dead Things (Eric Carter #1)

Stephen Blackmoore

3.17

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

Ann Leckie

4.05

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Nghi Vo

4.24

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