15 must-read adult books like Or What You Will by Jo Walton

Cover of Or What You Will by Jo Walton

Or What You Will

By: Jo Walton

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of Among Others, an utterly original …

"Writers are not nice people. We can't be."

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

"Writers are not nice people. We can't be."

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

"We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?"

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

"We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?"

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

If you liked the adult plot in Or What You Will by Jo Walton , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Jhereg (Vlad Taltos, #1) by Steven Brust, Olaf Schenk

1. Jhereg (Vlad Taltos, #1)

By: Steven Brust , Olaf Schenk

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Broschiert

Vlad Taltos ist ein Hexer, freiberuflicher Attentäter, lebt als Ostländer (also Mensch) unter Draga… read more

Similar categories in Steven Brust's Jhereg (Vlad Taltos, #1) book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Always speak politely to an enraged dragon."

-Steven Brust, Jhereg (Vlad Taltos, #1)

2. Amatka

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A surreal and shockingly original debut novel set in a dystopian world shaped by language--literall… read more

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3. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology an… read more

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4. You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1)

By: Cat Rambo

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Farscape meets The Great British Bake Off in this fantastic space opera You Sexy Thing from former … read more

Similar categories in Cat Rambo's You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1) book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) by Arkady Martine

5. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

By: Arkady Martine

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I thought you hated them,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

Cover of Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1) by K.J. Parker

6. Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

There’s no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1) book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The men of Sirupat weren't fighters because they didn't want to be, and in my book there's no higher praise than that--and that's the main reason, when you come to think of it, why women are so infin…"

-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

"Where you always go wrong is trying to persuade people with facts and arguments. It's why you can only write comedy. What gets people going is stuff that doesn't mean shit but sounds great. Blood, to…"

-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

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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 Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 3 (Volume 3) (She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, 3) by Sakaomi Yuzaki

8. She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 3 (Volume 3) (She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, 3)

By: Sakaomi Yuzaki

4.69

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

As Nomoto comes to terms with her feelings, Kasuga worries over her relationship with her family. M… read more

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9. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

10. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By: Eddie Robson

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

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11. A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

Cover of Ancestral Night (White Space, #1) by Elizabeth Bear

12. Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.79

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. She is wrong. … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's Ancestral Night (White Space, #1) book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
"Rest,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I felt even more hollow than I had."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"Good thing for me you’re not a murderer."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I was raised in a clade. There is no real me."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

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13. Aspects

By: John M. Ford

3.89

Format: None pages, None

"The best writer in America, bar none."—Robert JordanAt last, the final work of John M. Ford—one of… read more

Similar categories in John M. Ford's Aspects book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all."

-John M. Ford, Aspects

Cover of The Thousand Eyes  (The Serpent Gates, #2) by A.K. Larkwood

14. The Thousand Eyes (The Serpent Gates, #2)

By: A.K. Larkwood

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to A. K. Larkwood's stunning debut fantasy, The Unspoken Name, The Thousand Eyes continu… read more

Similar categories in A.K. Larkwood's The Thousand Eyes (The Serpent Gates, #2) book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"If there ever comes a day when anyone gets what they deserve…then I would still get you, and you would still get me"

-A.K. Larkwood, The Thousand Eyes (The Serpent Gates, #2)

Cover of Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

15. Buried Deep and Other Stories

By: Naomi Novik

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Novik's Buried Deep and Other Stories book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg

16. Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

By: Jordan Ellenberg

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a … read more

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"The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull."

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to set…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff , bigger data . It's actually just as important to prune aw…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"What I like about stochastic gradient descent is how nuts it sounds. Imagine, for instance, that the president of the United States made decisions without any kind of global strategy; rather, the nat…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

Cover of A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel       Mason

17. A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

By: Daniel Mason

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner, a collection … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi

18. The Tangled Lands

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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19. Empress of Forever

By: Max Gladstone

3.79

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy—a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure of a rag-ta… read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"To live is to grow secrets."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"You’re not who you think you are,"

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"Nevers and onlys and forevers grew as you did."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"She had never been weak enough to need meanness."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

Cover of Or What You Will by Jo Walton

20. Or What You Will

By: Jo Walton

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of Among Others, an utterly original … read more

Similar categories in Jo Walton's Or What You Will book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • books about books
"Writers are not nice people. We can't be."

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

"We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?"

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

Cover of Loka (The Alloy Era, #2) by S.B. Divya

21. Loka (The Alloy Era, #2)

By: S.B. Divya

4.15

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding a place to belong becomes a girl’s ambitious quest in a thrilling epic about space, humanit… read more

Similar categories in S.B. Divya's Loka (The Alloy Era, #2) book and Jo Walton's Or What You Will

  • fantasy
  • fiction

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