7 Top short stories books like The Inconvenient God by Francesca Forrest

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The Inconvenient God

By: Francesca Forrest

3.91

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

What happens if you try to retire a god who is not ready to leave? An official from the Ministry…

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1. The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.01

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

The long awaited sequel to the Inheritance trilogy -- a novella by award winning author N. K. Jemis… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Women risk their lives enough to bear children and provide for them by tool or by blade; the least men can do is handle things after that."

-N.K. Jemisin, The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5)

"I don’t want somebody who’s going to talk about me like I’m not here, or say things about one person when they really mean it about another person, or, or—"

-N.K. Jemisin, The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5)

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2. Spirits Abroad

By: Zen Cho

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more

Similar categories in Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology

3. A Stranger to Command

By: Sherwood Smith

3.55

Format: 288 pages, ebook

This prequel to Crown Duel is about the early life of Vidanric Renselaeus, Marquis of Shevraeth, wh… read more

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4. Penric’s Demon (Penric and Desdemona, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.20

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy

5. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Ele… read more

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6. City of Bones

By: Martha Wells

4.00

Format: 442 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Where once great galleons roamed the sea, sand ships now traverse the Great Waste, and a glitteri… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's City of Bones book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What magic does is to open the mind to the world and sometimes the world isn't what we think it is."

-Martha Wells, City of Bones

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7. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.85

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

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8. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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9. 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 Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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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10. Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.05

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've a… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Names have power. Names define things"

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"I'm not your door, but I might be my own."

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"Being a fat child meant knowing how to be own best advocate"

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"I am not your door.' After a pause for thought, she added, 'But I might be my own."

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

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11. Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciou… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You're not tall, but you walk like you are."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"New things are the best kind of magic there is."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"I have a reservoir filled with lightning under my heart."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"When a scientist speaks, it behooves the ordinary soul to listen."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

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12. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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13. 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 Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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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14. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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15. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

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16. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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17. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Servant Mage

By: Kate Elliott

3.58

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

Fellian is a Lamplighter, able to provide illumination through magic. A group of rebel Monarchists … read more

Similar categories in Kate Elliott's Servant Mage book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

By: Garth Nix

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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20. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.16

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather … read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

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22. The Twice-Drowned Saint

By: C.S.E. Cooney

4.10

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!"… read more

Similar categories in C.S.E. Cooney's The Twice-Drowned Saint book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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23. The Monsters We Defy

By: Leslye Penelope

4.12

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to … read more

Similar categories in Leslye Penelope's The Monsters We Defy book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. January Fifteenth

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“One of the best speculative writers of the last decade.”—John Scalzi January Fifteenth—the day … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's January Fifteenth book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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25. The Path of Thorns

By: A.G. Slatter

4.00

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess t… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Path of Thorns book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I shake myself, feel the past cascade from my shoulders."

-A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

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26. Uncommon Charm

By: Emily Bergslien

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A Champagne Gothic! Three days after I was expelled from the Marable School for Girls, our poor… read more

Similar categories in Emily Bergslien's Uncommon Charm book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Alice Payne Arrives (Alice Payne, #1) by Kate Heartfield

27. Alice Payne Arrives (Alice Payne, #1)

By: Kate Heartfield

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

A disillusioned major, a highwaywoman, and a war raging across time. It’s 1788 and Alice Payne i… read more

Similar categories in Kate Heartfield's Alice Payne Arrives (Alice Payne, #1) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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28. The Inconvenient God

By: Francesca Forrest

3.91

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

What happens if you try to retire a god who is not ready to leave? An official from the Ministry… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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29. Walk Between Worlds

By: Samara Breger

3.65

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Sergeant Major Scratch Keyes of the King’s Guard is having a bad day. On what should be the bigg… read more

Similar categories in Samara Breger's Walk Between Worlds book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Halcyon Afternoon (The Mongolian Wizard #10) by Michael Swanwick

30. Halcyon Afternoon (The Mongolian Wizard #10)

By: Michael Swanwick

3.81

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Ritter grapples with a cunning adversary in this new Mongolian Wizard story . . .At the Publisher's… read more

Similar categories in Michael Swanwick's Halcyon Afternoon (The Mongolian Wizard #10) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • fantasy
Cover of Dragons of Paris (The Mongolian Wizard #11) by Michael Swanwick

31. Dragons of Paris (The Mongolian Wizard #11)

By: Michael Swanwick

4.58

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Reactor presents a new Mongolian Wizard story about a battle to save Paris from an unexpected new f… read more

Similar categories in Michael Swanwick's Dragons of Paris (The Mongolian Wizard #11) book and Francesca Forrest's The Inconvenient God

  • fantasy

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