15 best-selling fantasy books like Ninetails: Nine Tales by Sally Wen Mao

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Ninetails: Nine Tales

By: Sally Wen Mao

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of …

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Cover of The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

1. The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more

Similar categories in Justinian Huang's The Emperor and the Endless Palace book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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2. 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 Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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3. The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

4.01

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Fox Wife book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

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4. Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

3.67

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Ocean Yoon has never felt like much of a Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haeny… read more

Similar categories in Elaine U. Cho's Ocean's Godori book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She asks, "Do you ever want to go back to Mars?" "It's a weird little place," he replies. "Stuck in its ways. I feel more like a Martian when I'm not there, if that makes sense."

-Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori

Cover of A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

5. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

Similar categories in Park Seolyeon's A Magical Girl Retires book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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6. Moonbound

By: Robin Sloan

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future a… read more

Similar categories in Robin Sloan's Moonbound book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Universes by Emet North

7. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

Similar categories in Emet North's In Universes book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Black Girl Survives in This One by Desiree S. Evans

9. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

10. 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 Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2) by Premee Mohamed

11. We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2)

By: Premee Mohamed

3.98

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds Traveling al… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2) book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

Similar categories in Marcela Fuentes's Malas book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

14. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Scrap

By: Calla Henkel

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an obscenely wealthy family in this f… read more

Similar categories in Calla Henkel's Scrap book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Lunar Boy by Jacinta Wibowo

16. Lunar Boy

By: Jacinta Wibowo

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heartwarming coming-of-age graphic… read more

Similar categories in Jacinta Wibowo's Lunar Boy book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani

17. The Night of Baba Yaga

By: Akira Otani

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more

Similar categories in Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ninetails: Nine Tales by Sally Wen Mao

18. Ninetails: Nine Tales

By: Sally Wen Mao

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of … read more

Similar categories in Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • historical
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
Cover of Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari

19. Songs for the Brokenhearted

By: Ayelet Tsabari

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better li… read more

Similar categories in Ayelet Tsabari's Songs for the Brokenhearted book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour

20. This Great Hemisphere

By: Mateo Askaripour

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck : A speculative novel about a young wom… read more

Similar categories in Mateo Askaripour's This Great Hemisphere book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

21. The City in Glass

By: Nghi Vo

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in th… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The City in Glass book and Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails: Nine Tales

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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Justinian Huang

3.52

Transform Your Habits

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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The Fox Wife

Yangsze Choo

4.01

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Ocean's Godori

Elaine U. Cho

3.67

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A Magical Girl Retires

Park Seolyeon

3.63

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Safer Places

Kit Anderson

3.90

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.29

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Briony Cameron

3.82

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