5 must-read short stories books like The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) by Aliette de Bodard

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The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen…

If you liked the short stories plot in The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) by Aliette de Bodard , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • dragons
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • angels
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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2. Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)

By: Max Gladstone

3.90

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

The new novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead Shadow demon… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"To desperation,"

-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)

"I’m on a quest, I think,"

-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)

"You live in a grim universe."

-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)

"Everyone likes to be needed."

-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)

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3. One Salt Sea (October Daye, #5)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 354 pages, Mass Market Paperback

October "Toby" Daye is finally doing all right—and that inevitably means it's time for things to ta… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it."

-Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea (October Daye, #5)

"Never bring a weapon too big to double as a dining utensil to the table when dining with friends."

-Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea (October Daye, #5)

"If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means."

-Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea (October Daye, #5)

"The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie."

-Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea (October Daye, #5)

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4. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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

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5. Late Eclipses (October Daye, #4)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.27

Format: 372 pages, Mass Market Paperback

October "Toby" Daye, changeling knight in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, finds the delicat… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"In the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive me what I’m about to do."

-Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses (October Daye, #4)

"She did the best with what she had, and that's all any of us can do. We're handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them."

-Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses (October Daye, #4)

"This is how it should end. They won't remember the way I died, but they'll remember how I lived, forever. I was the monster under your bed, wasn't I? I'll be the monster waiting for your children."

-Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses (October Daye, #4)

"She said she'd been in relationships with way bigger problems than one of us being a transitory manifestation of impending doom. Like this one girl who liked her computer more than she liked her girl…"

-Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses (October Daye, #4)

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6. 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

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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

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7. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • fiction
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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8. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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9. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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11. 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

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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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12. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

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  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. 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

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. The Mars House

By: Natasha Pulley

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. Death in the Spires

By: K.J. Charles

4.42

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby d… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Death in the Spires book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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16. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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17. The Route of Ice and Salt

By: José Luis Zárate

3.62

Format: 143 pages, ebook

A reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It’s … read more

Similar categories in José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"But I must see that man for the last time, tell him that Hunger is not a sin, nor is Necessity or Appetite. What matters, I repeat, is what we are willing to do to satisfy them."

-José Luis Zárate, The Route of Ice and Salt

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18. The Obsidian Tower (Rooks and Ruin, #1)

By: Melissa Caruso

3.83

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

The mage-marked granddaughter of a ruler of Vaskandar, Ryx was destined for power and prestige at t… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. 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

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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20. The Ivory Tomb (Rooks and Ruin, #3)

By: Melissa Caruso

4.34

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

The Ivory Tomb concludes the wildly original epic fantasy series bursting with intrigue and ambitio… read more

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  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

By: Gabriela Romero Lacruz

3.33

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

In a lush world inspired by the history and folklore of South America, a sweeping epic fantasy of c… read more

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  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I thought tinieblas were nothing but a story—just a word for shadows. Tales to scare children into obedience. Horror tales are inspired by reality."

-Gabriela Romero Lacruz, The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

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22. The Quicksilver Court (Rooks and Ruin, #2)

By: Melissa Caruso

4.21

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

The Quicksilver Court continues the wildly original epic fantasy series bursting with intrigue and … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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23. 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

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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24. A Theory of Haunting

By: Sarah Monette

3.95

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Kyle Murchison Booth, archivist at the Parrington Museum, has heard of Thirdhop Scarp. Everyone has… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Monette's A Theory of Haunting book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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25. 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

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

26. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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27. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

Cover of Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2) by Everina Maxwell

28. Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

By: Everina Maxwell

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set… read more

Similar categories in Everina Maxwell's Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2) book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"This is nothing. One more incredibly dumb problem to baffle my therapist with."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"I used to be unusable because I was a mess," Tennal said. "Now I've spent time as a ranker and time as an officer, and you know what? Now I'm unusable by choice."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

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29. Ebony Gate (Phoenix Hoard, #1)

By: Julia Vee

3.85

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemp… read more

Similar categories in Julia Vee's Ebony Gate (Phoenix Hoard, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • dragons
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Some people have cats. I have a lion."

-Julia Vee, Ebony Gate (Phoenix Hoard, #1)

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30. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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31. A Novel Arrangement (Flos Magicae #6)

By: Arden Powell

4.01

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

A dressmaker who secretly publishes thrilling romances. Her handsome war-veteran fiancé. And his be… read more

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  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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