14 Top science fiction books like Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2) by Ruthanna Emrys

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Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

By: Ruthanna Emrys

4.03

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruthanna Emrys’ Innsmouth Legacy, which began with Winter Tide and continues with Deep Roots, confr…

"Innsmouth women might deck themselves in gold for a man's pleasure, recite passages of lore to show off their learning, or cultivate an interest in stories about fishing expeditions. But my mother had never taught me how to efface myself to bolster male self-importance—nor had my father taught any need for it."

-Ruthanna Emrys, Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

"Innsmouth women might deck themselves in gold for a man's pleasure, recite passages of lore to show off their learning, or cultivate an interest in stories about fishing expeditions. But my mother had never taught me how to efface myself to bolster male self-importance—nor had my father taught any need for it."

-Ruthanna Emrys, Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

If you liked the science fiction plot in Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2) by Ruthanna Emrys , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #2)

By: Kevin Hearne

4.22

Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to make ni… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Mr. Tall, Blonde and Lightning"

-Kevin Hearne, Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #2)

"Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling."

-Kevin Hearne, Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #2)

"It's only a slight modification of causality."

-Kevin Hearne, Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #2)

"She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five."

-Kevin Hearne, Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #2)

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2. Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cryptid, noun: Any creature whose existence has not yet been proven by science. See also "Monster."… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"She’s a telepath?"

-Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

"Crazy gets all the knives."

-Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

"I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy."

-Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

"Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind."

-Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)

3. Spectred Isle (Green Men, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

3.97

Format: None pages, ebook

Archaeologist Saul Lazenby has been all but unemployable since his disgrace during the War. Now he … read more

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4. Middlegame

By: Seanan McGuire

4.11

Format: 288 pages,

It's a story of friendship, of family, of designer gods, and of life versus death, good versus evil… read more

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5. The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3)

By: Charles Stross

4.30

Format: 503 pages,

Computational demonologist Bob Howard catches up on filing in the Laundry archives when the top sec… read more

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6. Terminal World

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin… read more

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7. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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8. Taste of Marrow (River of Teeth #2)

By: Sarah Gailey

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, … read more

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9. Four Roads Cross (Craft Sequence, #5)

By: Max Gladstone

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Hardcover

The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and… read more

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10. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

  • science fiction
  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

11. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Terciel and Elinor (The Old Kingdom, #6) by Garth Nix

12. Terciel and Elinor (The Old Kingdom, #6)

By: Garth Nix

4.20

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel’s parents, Ter… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"A passion for something was energy to be exploited, not thwarted."

-Garth Nix, Terciel and Elinor (The Old Kingdom, #6)

Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

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

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3)

By: C.L. Polk

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, ro… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3) book and Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Mars. The red planet. A new frontier for humanity, a civilization where humans can live in peace, l… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
" Jimmy: “What, you’re my goddamn drugs counsellor now, are you?"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2)

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19. The Henchmen of Zenda

By: K.J. Charles

3.88

Format: 232 pages, ebook

Swordfights, lust, betrayal, murder: just another day for a henchman. Jasper Detchard is a disgr… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"He was watching me under those drooping lids, with need and satisfaction too, much as if he imagined he had the whip hand of me now. That was his youth showing, the peculiar conviction that a hard pr…"

-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda

"I have no quarrel with democrats in principle, except that they are as much frauds and liars as the rest. It is often said that mankind will not be free till the last king is strangled with the guts …"

-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda

"Goodnight, sweet schoolmaster. It's been a pleasure." On which he walked out, arse-naked, carrying his clothes under his arm and his boots by the heels so as not to mar their leather with thumbprints…"

-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda

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20. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

By: Theodora Goss

4.04

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice—and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the elec… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mary, it is sometimes permissible to lie to others, but it is never wise to lie to oneself."

-Theodora Goss, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

"However you feel about maids' uniforms, we don't have time to overthrow the social order today."

-Theodora Goss, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

" MARY: Are our readers going to know what the Athena Club is? CATHERINE: They will if they read the first two books! Which they should, and I hope if they are reading this volume and have not read th…"

-Theodora Goss, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

"There is modesty, and there is propriety. The former is a natural instinct, given to us when Adam and Eve left the garden and realized their nakedness. The latter is merely a social construct. Althou…"

-Theodora Goss, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

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22. The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

By: Neon Yang

3.99

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The Protector is dead. For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image … read more

Similar categories in Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4) book and Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Country (The Craft Wars, #1) by Max Gladstone

23. Dead Country (The Craft Wars, #1)

By: Max Gladstone

4.17

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

Since her village chased her out with pitchforks, Tara Abernathy has resurrected gods, pulled down … read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Dead Country (The Craft Wars, #1) book and Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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24. The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1)

By: Kritika H. Rao

3.59

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

Enter a lush world of cataclysmic storms, planet-wide jungles, floating cities and devastating magi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle (Edinburgh Nights, #3) by T.L. Huchu

25. The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle (Edinburgh Nights, #3)

By: T.L. Huchu

3.92

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Everyone’s favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptica… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) by Christopher Buehlman

26. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) book and Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

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27. The Stars Too Fondly

By: Emily Hamilton

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of g… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

By: Ruthanna Emrys

4.03

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruthanna Emrys’ Innsmouth Legacy, which began with Winter Tide and continues with Deep Roots, confr… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2) book and Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • historical
  • lovecraftian
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Innsmouth women might deck themselves in gold for a man's pleasure, recite passages of lore to show off their learning, or cultivate an interest in stories about fishing expeditions. But my mother ha…"

-Ruthanna Emrys, Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

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30. The Wood at Midwinter

By: Susanna Clarke

3.73

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more

Similar categories in Susanna Clarke's The Wood at Midwinter book and Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

31. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

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4.36

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4.17

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