22 Best fantasy books like The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods by Maria Dahvana Headley

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The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.76

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Gods won’t save you. Gods will break you. Nevertheless, you will persist. And become anew. At th…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods by Maria Dahvana Headley , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. That Game We Played During the War

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.12

Format: None pages, ebook

The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war … read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's That Game We Played During the War book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

2. The Forever Endeavor

By: Chuck Wendig

3.75

Format: None pages, ebook

Dale Gilooly has a problem. Well, Dale has a lot of problems. Addiction. Rent. A girlfriend he let … read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's The Forever Endeavor book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • fiction

3. Lullaby for a Lost World

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.68

Format: 330 pages, ebook

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up thr… read more

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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 Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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. Hearts in the Hard Ground

By: G.V. Anderson

3.54

Format: 44 pages, ebook

Following the death of her mother, Fiona buys a new house in order to start a new chapter of her li… read more

Similar categories in G.V. Anderson's Hearts in the Hard Ground book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • romance
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • contemporary
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6. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1) book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • romance
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

By: Tina Connolly

4.23

Format: 30 pages, ebook

A young food taster to the Traitor King must make a difficult choice in this story of pastries, mag… read more

Similar categories in Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Exile's End

By: Carolyn Ives Gilman

4.03

Format: 48 pages, ebook

Exile's End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Ives Gilman's Exile's End book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • adult fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"How do you lose your name? When people stop telling your story. Why must we tell our story? Because others start telling it for us."

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

"He came to the prison of ghosts; For Hoarder people do not free their dead. Their feet fall heavy, weighted by the past They do not hear the spirits cry for freedom They heap up secrets in an archive…"

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

"Let’s sing of the lightbeam journey Of the man who was not a man Sent by the Whispering Kindom To search the sky for ghosts. How did he find the way? He followed the poison papers, He followed the sc…"

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

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10. Triquetra

By: Kirstyn McDermott

3.91

Format: 43 pages, ebook

"Triquetra" by Kirstyn McDermott is a dark fantasy novelette about the fraught relationship between… read more

Similar categories in Kirstyn McDermott's Triquetra book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • retellings
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Flight

By: Claire Wrenwood

3.30

Format: 18 pages, ebook

As a girl, Maggie dreamed of joining the Sisters, a group of women who enjoy the status and attenti… read more

Similar categories in Claire Wrenwood's Flight book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

By: Rivers Solomon

3.67

Format: 25 pages, ebook

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can gr… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Blood Is Another Word for Hunger book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. The Touches

By: Brenda Peynado

3.51

Format: 27 pages, ebook

Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Sa… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Peynado's The Touches book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands

By: Fran Wilde

2.91

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Fran Wilde's fantasy short story "An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands" is a Tor.com … read more

Similar categories in Fran Wilde's An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Men, Women, and Chainsaws

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.94

Format: 37 pages, ebook

It's been two years since Jenna's ex-boyfriend left her alone in East Texas heartbroken. Now he's b… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Men, Women, and Chainsaws book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Seonag and the Seawolves

By: M. Evan MacGriogair

3.72

Format: 33 pages, ebook

Seonag is born on a day where the clouds race each other across the sky. A clan storyteller unfo… read more

Similar categories in M. Evan MacGriogair's Seonag and the Seawolves book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • mythology
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1)

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.05

Format: 288 pages, ebook

How much does the internet know about YOU? Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t … read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1) book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • fiction
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19. Wait for Night

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.90

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones is horror story about a day laborer hired to help clean up a… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Wait for Night book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar

By: Rich Larson

3.71

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark, fast-moving novelette about a high-tech heist in future Spain, planned by a professional th… read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. The Time Invariance of Snow

By: E. Lily Yu

3.36

Format: 25 pages, ebook

The Devil made a mirror. A physicist broke it and shards fall through reality and changed everythin… read more

Similar categories in E. Lily Yu's The Time Invariance of Snow book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • retellings
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Love ’em, leave ’em. Sometimes I even leave them alive"

-E. Lily Yu, The Time Invariance of Snow

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22. Beyond the Dragon's Gate

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.73

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military … read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Beyond the Dragon's Gate book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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23. Old Media

By: Annalee Newitz

3.38

Format: 25 pages, ebook

The story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love … read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's Old Media book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • romance
  • short stories
  • fiction
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24. If You Take My Meaning

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.66

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sh… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's If You Take My Meaning book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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25. Anything Resembling Love

By: S. Qiouyi Lu

3.84

Format: 23 pages, ebook

All her life Sylvia has made sure to never let anyone see the centipedes that emerge from her body.… read more

Similar categories in S. Qiouyi Lu's Anything Resembling Love book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods by Maria Dahvana Headley

26. The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.76

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Gods won’t save you. Gods will break you. Nevertheless, you will persist. And become anew. At th… read more

Similar categories in Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • retellings
  • low fantasy
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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27. Where Would You Be Now?

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.77

Format: 35 pages, ebook

A Tor.com Original The world as they know it is ending, a new world is taking its place. Among t… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Where Would You Be Now? book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Let All the Children Boogie by Sam J. Miller

28. Let All the Children Boogie

By: Sam J. Miller

3.89

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving comes Sam J. Miller's sci-fi time trave… read more

Similar categories in Sam J. Miller's Let All the Children Boogie book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see unspeakable suffering. But we could survive i…"

-Sam J. Miller, Let All the Children Boogie

"There would be time to tell Fell all of it. To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see u…"

-Sam J. Miller, Let All the Children Boogie

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29. Deriving Life

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.77

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

In Deriving Life, love has no time limits, but life does. Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fiction
"I can never go back,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"I felt awful and I did an awful thing."

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"It’s my life to spend as I please, isn’t it?"

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"Impossibility doesn’t make the wanting go away."

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

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30. Blue Morphos in the Garden

By: Lis Mitchell

3.54

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

Read Lis Mitchell's magical realist tale, Blue Morphos in the Garden, a Tor.com original short stor… read more

Similar categories in Lis Mitchell's Blue Morphos in the Garden book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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31. Knowledgeable Creatures

By: Christopher Rowe

3.37

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

A dog detective is hired by a female human to investigate a murder that she committed. But of cours… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Rowe's Knowledgeable Creatures book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

29 Best fiction books like The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods by Maria Dahvana Headley

Transform Your Habits

That Game We Played During the War

Carrie Vaughn

3.12

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Chuck Wendig

3.75

Transform Your Habits

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

Nghi Vo

4.17

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Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

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St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

C.L. Polk

3.86

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Daryl Gregory

3.91

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Flight

Claire Wrenwood

3.30

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Katharine Duckett

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