7 Top speculative fiction books like Plague Birds by Jason Sanford

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Plague Birds

By: Jason Sanford

3.62

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Glowing red lines split their faces. Shock-red hair and clothes warn people to flee their approach.…

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Plague Birds by Jason Sanford , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's Spear book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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2. 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

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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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3. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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4. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • 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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5. 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

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) by P. Djèlí Clark

6. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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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

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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8. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Light from Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

4.06

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more

Similar categories in Ryka Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Lindsey Stirling?"

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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10. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

By: Wole Talabi

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning Nigerian author presents a mythic tale of disgruntled… read more

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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11. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's The Water Outlaws book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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13. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

By: Bethany Jacobs

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more

Similar categories in Bethany Jacobs's These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

14. And What Can We Offer You Tonight

By: Premee Mohamed

3.60

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's And What Can We Offer You Tonight book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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15. 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

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Fireheart Tiger book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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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16. The Past Is Red

By: Catherynne M. Valente

4.11

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Ci… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Past Is Red book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The day I met her I knew I was never gonna be the girl from before I heard her voice ever again."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that’s waiting on the other side of five years from now. That’s a stranger waiting to ambush you, and …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"She listens, and I wish I could give her a little gold trophy for it, but I can’t, because of all the things Fuckwits gave trophies for, they never thought listening like nothing exists but time and …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

Cover of An End to Sorrow (The Obsidian Path, #3) by Michael R. Fletcher

17. An End to Sorrow (The Obsidian Path, #3)

By: Michael R. Fletcher

4.11

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

THE OBSIDIAN PATH IS IN RUINS Abandoned by his god and chained in the bilge of Iremaire’s war ga… read more

Similar categories in Michael R. Fletcher's An End to Sorrow (The Obsidian Path, #3) book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

By: C.L. Clark

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9780316542753 Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and rai… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Clark's The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1) book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What is war if not a complicated web of mathematics and charm? Luca thought."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Who needs a god of oceans when I could drown inside your eyes? Who needs a god of grain when I could feast between your thighs?"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Then, still holding the cup, Touraine giggled. This broad-shouldered, muscle-bound ex-soldier, who spent most of her time either glowering or bowing at people, had smirked at her future queen, and no…"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

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19. Machinehood

By: S.B. Divya

3.65

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

A science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near fut… read more

Similar categories in S.B. Divya's Machinehood book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • artificial intelligence
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The more things changed, the more they stayed the same."

-S.B. Divya, Machinehood

"Technology was as habit-forming as every escapist, feel-good drug"

-S.B. Divya, Machinehood

"What would be the long-term consequences for a dakini revolution? Every technological advancement had consequences."

-S.B. Divya, Machinehood

"Her people attacked me, and I defended myself. We believe that she is responsible for crimes against human- and machine kind. We believe that the governments of Earth have failed to protect their peo…"

-S.B. Divya, Machinehood

Cover of Plague Birds by Jason Sanford

20. Plague Birds

By: Jason Sanford

3.62

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Glowing red lines split their faces. Shock-red hair and clothes warn people to flee their approach.… read more

Similar categories in Jason Sanford's Plague Birds book and Jason Sanford's Plague Birds

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • artificial intelligence
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

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Nicola Griffith

4.08

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

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Witch King

Martha Wells

3.71

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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