18 must-read fiction books like Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

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Trouble the Saints

By: Alaya Dawn Johnson

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Undergroun…

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1. Raven Calls (Walker Papers, #7)

By: C.E. Murphy

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

Something wicked this way comes... Suddenly, being bitten by a werewolf is the least of Joanne Walk… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

2. Passing Strange

By: Ellen Klages

4.23

Format: 11 pages, ebook

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the ci… read more

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3. The Queens of Innis Lear

By: Tessa Gratton

3.69

Format: None pages, ebook

A kingdom at risk, a crown divided, a family drenched in blood. The erratic decisions of a prophecy… read more

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4. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
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5. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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6. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • urban fantasy
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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9. Servant Mage

By: Kate Elliott

3.58

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

Fellian is a Lamplighter, able to provide illumination through magic. A group of rebel Monarchists … read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

By: Alec Nevala-Lee

4.21

Format: 544 pages, ebook

“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Navola

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.92

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Wind-Up Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping li… read more

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  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. Lady Eve's Last Con

By: Rebecca Fraimow

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hearts will race and anti-grav boots will fly in this scifi rom-com perfect for fans of WINTER'S OR… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.23

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a new YA fantasy duology from a bestselling genre-expanding master, about a teena… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1) book and Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Articulated Restraint

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.85

Format: 26 pages, ebook

Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And some… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's Articulated Restraint book and Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Trouble the Saints

By: Alaya Dawn Johnson

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Undergroun… read more

Similar categories in Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints book and Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • urban fantasy
  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1)

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.05

Format: 288 pages, ebook

How much does the internet know about YOU? Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t … read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1) book and Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • mystery
  • fiction
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18. If You Take My Meaning

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.66

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sh… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's If You Take My Meaning book and Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. A Room Away From the Wolves

By: Nova Ren Suma

3.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from home. Her mother promised they w… read more

Similar categories in Nova Ren Suma's A Room Away From the Wolves book and Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

By: Daniel José Older

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more

Similar categories in Daniel José Older's The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution book and Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

Cover of One Day to Fall (One Day to Forever, #2) by Therese Beharrie

21. One Day to Fall (One Day to Forever, #2)

By: Therese Beharrie

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Of all the taxis in all of Cape Town, Sophia Roux had to stumble into his.She should be at her “per… read more

Similar categories in Therese Beharrie's One Day to Fall (One Day to Forever, #2) book and Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints

  • fiction

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4.17

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4.05

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Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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Yume Kitasei

3.78

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Veronica Roth

3.73

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