5 best-selling historical fiction books like Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale by Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Cover of Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale by Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

By: Danielle Ackley-McPhail

4.19

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Come, Best Beloved, and sit you by my feet. I shall tell you a tale such as sister Scheherazade cou…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale by Danielle Ackley-McPhail , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.42

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So … read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3) book and Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

"He does his best to stumble through an explanation, but he suddenly feels like he knows very little. Perhaps he forgot it all, or perhaps he never really understood it to begin with."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

"Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves, but for future generations. But it is worth tending to. Oh, it is so terribly worth tending…"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

2. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920

By: Timothy J. Gilfoyle

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Histo… read more

Similar categories in Timothy J. Gilfoyle's City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 book and Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

Cover of A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) by P. Djèlí Clark

3. 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 Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

  • science fiction
  • steampunk
  • fantasy
  • 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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4. A Thousand Recipes for Revenge (Chefs of the Five Gods, #1)

By: Beth Cato

3.88

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

A world on the brink of war and a mother and daughter on the run, in a thrilling novel of swashbuck… read more

Similar categories in Beth Cato's A Thousand Recipes for Revenge (Chefs of the Five Gods, #1) book and Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
Cover of Raybearer (Raybearer, #1) by Jordan Ifueko

5. Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.33

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer (Raybearer, #1) book and Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Didn't I tell you a bath would help?"

-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

"Some demons could not be soothed by any lullaby."

-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

"You have never worried me, daughter. You have only disappointed."

-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

"And the more I learn, the farther I feel. I don’t know where home is anymore."

-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

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6. Revelator

By: Daryl Gregory

3.98

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion… read more

Similar categories in Daryl Gregory's Revelator book and Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
"That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It…"

-Daryl Gregory, Revelator

Cover of The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1) by Nicole Glover

7. The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1)

By: Nicole Glover

3.69

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Introducing Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad who now sol… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Glover's The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1) book and Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
Cover of Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale by Danielle Ackley-McPhail

8. Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

By: Danielle Ackley-McPhail

4.19

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Come, Best Beloved, and sit you by my feet. I shall tell you a tale such as sister Scheherazade cou… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale book and Danielle Ackley-McPhail's Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn: A Steampunk Faerie Tale

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • steampunk
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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4.42

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3.71

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