19 best-selling fantasy books like Temper by Nicky Drayden

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Temper

By: Nicky Drayden

3.55

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Two brothers. Seven vices. One demonic possession. Can this relationship survive? Auben Mutze…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Temper by Nicky Drayden , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Gilda Stories

By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more

Similar categories in Jewelle L. Gómez's The Gilda Stories book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • fantasy
  • fiction

2. Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Akata Witchtransports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it seems. Born in New… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1) book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook

3. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Fred, the Vampire Accountant, #1)

By: Drew Hayes

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Some people are born boring. Some live boring. Some even die boring. Fred managed to do all three, … read more

Similar categories in Drew Hayes's The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Fred, the Vampire Accountant, #1) book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

4. Planetfall

By: Emma Newman

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret… read more

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5. All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

By: Foz Meadows

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance , a sultry political & romantic fan… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"[Markel signing] '...If I'd just been a little sharper--' 'You're plenty sharp, Markel,' I said, smiling at him. 'Like an oddly maternal knife."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

"I can feel the pair of you mother-henning me from here,' Vel called from the bathroom door. 'It smacks of conspiracy.' 'You'll be cared about and you'll like it!' Cae called back."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

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6. 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

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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7. 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 Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Blood Like Magic (Blood Like Magic, #1)

By: Liselle Sambury

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Blood Like Magic (Blood Like Magic, #1) book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • urban fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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9. DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test (DeadEndia, #1)

By: Hamish Steele

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Netflix original series Dead End: Paranormal Park comes the graphic novel serie… read more

Similar categories in Hamish Steele's DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test (DeadEndia, #1) book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Very well. I shall attend the anniversary of your escape from your mother's birth canal."

-Hamish Steele, DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test (DeadEndia, #1)

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10. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Riot Baby

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

3.72

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered … read more

Similar categories in Tochi Onyebuchi's Riot Baby book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When you have a purpose that doesn't involve hurting someone else, it changes the way you walk."

-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby

"Look at outside. We don't have drug dealers on the corners anymore. I can't remember the last time someone was shot on this block. My church-goers can come and go in peace." "When there isn't a curfe…"

-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby

Cover of Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1) by Mariely Lares

12. Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)

By: Mariely Lares

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving… read more

Similar categories in Mariely Lares's Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1) book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"When no one is around to talk in your ear, then you can hear the only voice that really matters. Your own."

-Mariely Lares, Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)

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13. Docile

By: K.M. Szpara

3.42

Format: 489 pages, Hardcover

There is no consent under capitalism Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wea… read more

Similar categories in K.M. Szpara's Docile book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It's okay to hate yourself and it's okay to enjoy yourself. Sometimes."

-K.M. Szpara, Docile

"I didn't bare my feelings so you could explain why they were wrong. I wanted your support."

-K.M. Szpara, Docile

"My forehead rests against his, trapping beads of water between us. Then, before I can object, he kisses me with soft, gentle lips. I pull back. 'I didn't say you could do that.' 'Not out loud,' he sa…"

-K.M. Szpara, Docile

Cover of Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

14. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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15. Far from the Light of Heaven

By: Tade Thompson

3.51

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousan… read more

Similar categories in Tade Thompson's Far from the Light of Heaven book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Nobody like everybody," says Fin. "Some people are shitty." She sucks her teeth. "Some people are just more difficult to accept than others, and you shouldn't dislike someone because of their weaknes…"

-Tade Thompson, Far from the Light of Heaven

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16. Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

By: Temi Oh

3.65

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, … read more

Similar categories in Temi Oh's Do You Dream of Terra-Two? book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Plenus annis abiit, plenus honoribus,"

-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

"In the darkness, every fear finds a face."

-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

"Loving anything is bound to the pain of losing it."

-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

"What would you die for? Willingly die for? I’d probably say nothing at all."

-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

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17. High Times in the Low Parliament

By: Kelly Robson

3.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Kelly Robson is back with fairies, scribes, and many many kisses in High Times in the Low Parliamen… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Robson's High Times in the Low Parliament book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Temper

By: Nicky Drayden

3.55

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Two brothers. Seven vices. One demonic possession. Can this relationship survive? Auben Mutze… read more

Similar categories in Nicky Drayden's Temper book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • young adult
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more

Similar categories in Cebo Campbell's Sky Full of Elephants book and Nicky Drayden's Temper

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

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The Gilda Stories

Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez

3.60

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Nnedi Okorafor

3.97

Transform Your Habits

All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

Foz Meadows

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Deep

Rivers Solomon

3.78

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

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

Malka Ann Older

4.01

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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