6 Best fantasy books like The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley

Cover of The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley

The Tallest Doll in New York City

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula Award-nominated author Maria Dahvana Headley has always loved Damon Runyon's stylized faux-r…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Reborn (The Anderson Project, #1) by Ken Liu, Richard Anderson, None

1. Reborn (The Anderson Project, #1)

By: Ken Liu , Richard Anderson , None

4.40

Format: 82 pages, ebook

Free online fiction from tor.com. Part 1 of The Anderson Project. Please enjoy "Reborn," by Ken Liu… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's Reborn (The Anderson Project, #1) book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star

By: Kathleen Ann Goonan

3.91

Format: 160 pages, ebook

"A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star", by Kathleen Ann Goonan, … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Ann Goonan's A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. Cold Wind

By: Nicola Griffith

3.62

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"Cold Wind", by Nicola Griffith, is a dark fantasy tale about a woman who enters a Seattle bar on a… read more

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4. As Good as New

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.47

Format: None pages, ebook

From the author of the Hugo-winning "Six Months, Three Days," a new wrinkle on the old story of thr… read more

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5. Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.03

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a be… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7) book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • 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 Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical 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. If You Could See the Sun

By: Ann Liang

4.02

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's If You Could See the Sun book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Yeah."

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"Hmph,"

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"Yan Yan!"

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

"What your mama always say? If you not good person, you're nothing. Nothing."

-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

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8. The Bandit Queens

By: Parini Shroff

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more

Similar categories in Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • fiction
"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

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9. The Dark House

By: A.C. Wise

3.20

Format: 22 pages, ebook

A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t b… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Dark House book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project by Diana M. Pho

10. Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

By: Diana M. Pho

3.65

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

Tor.com's science fiction and fantasy flash fiction collection originally published in 2017 inspire… read more

Similar categories in Diana M. Pho's Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"There’s a line in Delany’s Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand where he talks about re-reading and says that this time the gleam of torchlight reflected in the water was a different gold. That abo…"

-Diana M. Pho, Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

Cover of The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley

11. The Tallest Doll in New York City

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula Award-nominated author Maria Dahvana Headley has always loved Damon Runyon's stylized faux-r… read more

Similar categories in Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light by Mimi Mondal

12. His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

By: Mimi Mondal

3.56

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

I am not a fighter. I am a trapeze master. An act of compassion puts a trapeze artist in India… read more

Similar categories in Mimi Mondal's His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light book and Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I'll be honest - I had never heard anything like that. Not that I ever understood the elaborate social intricacies of the upper classes, but I always knew that I did not trust them, and her story jus…"

-Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

"Priests were born into the Brahmin caste, and I had met enough Brahmins in my life to know that not all of them were priests, or even had a shred of spirituality in them. Usually they were arrogant a…"

-Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

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3.64

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