17 Top fantasy books like In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

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In the Vanishers’ Palace

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.67

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty…

If you liked the fantasy plot in In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors, #3)

By: Catherine M. Wilson

4.56

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

"In Book II, Tamras moved from her home into the lands beyond its border. In Book three, the stage … read more

Similar categories in Catherine M. Wilson's A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors, #3) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It seemed to me a wicked tale, to blame a woman for men's folly."

-Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors, #3)

"If my love for Maara depended on her love for me, it was not love, but a bargain."

-Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors, #3)

"Let us take care not to yield to evil's power, because evil has no power but what we give it."

-Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors, #3)

"Before I loved Maara, life seemed filled with endless possibility, yet I knew even then what I was waiting for. Love was only an idea to me then, something to hope for, a promise of happiness, insubs…"

-Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors, #3)

2. Shaken to the Core

By: Jae

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Kate Winthrop, the only child of a wealthy shipping magnate, has the course of her life charted for… read more

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3. 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 Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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4. 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 In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • 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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5. 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

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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7. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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8. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

By: Nghi Vo

4.18

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

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10. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

Similar categories in Naseem Jamnia's The Bruising of Qilwa book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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12. The Winter Duke

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An enchanted tale of intrigue where a duke's daughter is the only survivor of a magical curse. W… read more

Similar categories in Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Sometimes you must be brutal and unforgiving even to people you once considered friends"

-Claire Eliza Bartlett, The Winter Duke

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13. If Found, Return to Hell

By: Em X. Liu

3.83

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yell… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Witching Moon

By: Poppy Woods

3.89

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Alandra Michaels is your everyday, run-of-the-mill, ordinary witch. She doesn't have an affinity fo… read more

Similar categories in Poppy Woods's Witching Moon book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: C.B. Lee

4.01

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the cl… read more

Similar categories in C.B. Lee's Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Oh, she deserves so many good things, and I want to be one of them"

-C.B. Lee, Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics)

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17. Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3)

By: S.L. Huang

3.70

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

When Rosa (aka Red Riding Hood) and Hou Yi the Archer join forces to stop the deadly sunbirds from … read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. The Rat-Catcher's Daughter (Lilywhite Boys, #0.5)

By: K.J. Charles

4.15

Format: 61 pages, ebook

Music-hall singer Miss Christiana is in serious debt, and serious trouble. She owes more than she c… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Rat-Catcher's Daughter (Lilywhite Boys, #0.5) book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • queer
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19. Off With Their Heads

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.50

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling a… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Off With Their Heads book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. The Companion

By: E.E. Ottoman

3.67

Format: 168 pages, ebook

New York, 1949 After years of trying to break into New York City's literary scene, Madeline Slau… read more

Similar categories in E.E. Ottoman's The Companion book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • queer
"He was silent for a moment, then said more quietly. 'But I know what you are talking about. I've felt like that before too. To be intimate with someone and feel not right afterward, too vulnerable an…"

-E.E. Ottoman, The Companion

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21. In the Vanishers’ Palace

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.67

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace book and Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • dragons
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

19 best-selling fiction books like In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

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A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors, #3)

Catherine M. Wilson

4.56

Transform Your Habits

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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

Nghi Vo

4.17

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4.24

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3.64

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4.00

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