24 Best fiction books like The Kairos Mechanism (Arcana, #1) by Kate Milford

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The Kairos Mechanism (Arcana, #1)

By: Kate Milford

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

September, 1913. The crossroads town of Arcane, Missouri, is a place where strange things happen, a…

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1. Running Out of Time

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

3.99

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes t… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.47

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Brandon Sanderson creates worlds, and those worlds are linked. His universe spans the Stormlight Ar… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Wow! I hate you already."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"It was like saying that a man drowning in beer was better off than one drowning in acid."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"She hated dreams. They either showed her a life she couldn't have, or a life that terrified her."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"People," Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elemen…"

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

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3. The Night Gardener

By: Jonathan Auxier

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Auxier's exceptional debut, Peter Nimble and His Fantas… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener book and Kate Milford's The Kairos Mechanism (Arcana, #1)

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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4. The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co. #5)

By: Jonathan Stroud

3.84

Format: 135 pages, ebook

After the dramatic events of The Creeping Shadow, the Lockwood team (plus Quill Kipps) deserve some… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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5. The Crooked Sixpence (The Uncommoners #1)

By: Jennifer Bell , Karl James Mountford

3.50

Format: 218 pages, ebook

Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems... When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy

6. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circum… read more

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7. The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

By: Neil Gaiman , Yoshitaka Amano

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world… read more

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8. The Creeping Shadow (Lockwood & Co., #4)

By: Jonathan Stroud

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy,Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring her… read more

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9. The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

3.96

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch. NARNIA...where owls are wise, where… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

10. Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)

By: Suzette Haden Elgin

3.88

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Called "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tonguewon wid… read more

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11. Winterhouse (Winterhouse, #1)

By: Ben Guterson

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut―the first book in a trilogy―set in a magical hotel f… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Christmas Eve is a magical time," he said. "It is one of the few nights of the year-perhaps the only night of the year-when the spirit of love and peace seems to settle on everyone, regardless of who…"

-Ben Guterson, Winterhouse (Winterhouse, #1)

12. The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.36

Format: 524 pages, Paperback

In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidde… read more

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13. The Essex Serpent

By: Sarah Perry

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more

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14. The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co. #3)

By: Jonathan Stroud

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout… read more

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15. Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.80

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Acr… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6) book and Kate Milford's The Kairos Mechanism (Arcana, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"We have always held the land above the one who rules it."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"I can be beautiful and limited at the same time...There's nothing wrong with being limited, as long as you have people around to make sure those limitations don't get you hurt"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

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16. Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Victory City book and Kate Milford's The Kairos Mechanism (Arcana, #1)

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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17. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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18. Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike #9)

By: Robin Stevens

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The final novel in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Dais… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8)

By: Robin Stevens

4.35

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Daisy and Hazel are finally back at Deepdean, and the school is preparing for a most exciting event… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Nighthouse Keeper (Blight Harbor)

By: Lora Senf

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Evie once again leaves her world behind to rescue Blight Harbor’s ghosts in this second book in the… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Secrets of Winterhouse (Winterhouse, #2) by Ben Guterson

21. The Secrets of Winterhouse (Winterhouse, #2)

By: Ben Guterson

3.96

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Bookish puzzles, phantom mysteries, and evil curses await as Elizabeth returns to Winterhouse in Th… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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22. Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0)

By: Leigh Bardugo

4.11

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Before he led Ravka’s Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkli… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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23. The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

By: John Connolly

3.91

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . . Phoebe, an eight-year-old… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
"They were books speaking to other books, which was what books did, because no book was ever created in isolation, and literature was a long, ongoing conversation between stories."

-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

"To do nothing in the face of another's misfortune is to be no better than those who might have caused it to begin with, and the measure of the best of us is that we can correctly measure our own inco…"

-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

"Raging against it, or despairing, would not change anything. The past does not imprison us. We may offer ourselves up as its captives, but equally, we can choose to open the cell door and walk free. …"

-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

"You have to love not one dog, but all dogs," he would explain to Ceres. "You only have them for a short time, you see. To them it's a lifetime, while for you it's never long enough. So you love each …"

-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

Cover of The Train to Impossible Places (The Train to Impossible Places, #1) by P.G. Bell

24. The Train to Impossible Places (The Train to Impossible Places, #1)

By: P.G. Bell

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Alternative Cover Edition of ISBN 9781250189509 A train that travels through impossible places. … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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25. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story book and Kate Milford's The Kairos Mechanism (Arcana, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

26. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Secret of White Stone Gate (Black Hollow Lane, #2) by Julia Nobel

27. The Secret of White Stone Gate (Black Hollow Lane, #2)

By: Julia Nobel

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exciting sequel to The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane, Emmy's adventures continue as she deal… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Super Puzzletastic Mysteries: Short Stories for Young Sleuths from Mystery Writers of America by Chris Grabenstein

28. Super Puzzletastic Mysteries: Short Stories for Young Sleuths from Mystery Writers of America

By: Chris Grabenstein

4.11

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

A collection of short mysteries featuring sleuths both new and familiar (fans of FunJungle, Framed!… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Shades of Magic Vol. 3: The Rebel Army by Victoria Schwab

29. Shades of Magic Vol. 3: The Rebel Army

By: Victoria Schwab

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab and torn from the universe of the Shade… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Shades of Magic Vol. 2: Night of Knives by Victoria Schwab

30. Shades of Magic Vol. 2: Night of Knives

By: Victoria Schwab

3.89

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Written by #1 New York Times bests… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Kairos Mechanism (Arcana, #1) by Kate Milford

31. The Kairos Mechanism (Arcana, #1)

By: Kate Milford

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

September, 1913. The crossroads town of Arcane, Missouri, is a place where strange things happen, a… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • science fiction fantasy
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • steampunk
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy

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