11 Best science fiction books like The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate by Adam Roberts

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The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

By: Adam Roberts

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A gothic tale of murder and corruption set in 1840s Victorian London, taking inspiration from our m…

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Cover of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #2) by Natasha Pulley

1. Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #2)

By: Natasha Pulley

3.30

Format: 208 pages,

The author has said in an interview: The next book follows on from Watchmaker. Thaniel and Mori go … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #2) book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. Undermajordomo Minor

By: Patrick deWitt

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lucy Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. He is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakli… read more

Similar categories in Patrick deWitt's Undermajordomo Minor book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga, #1) by James Lee Burke

3. Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga, #1)

By: James Lee Burke

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance enc… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga, #1) book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

4. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • mystery
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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5. The Lost Cause

By: Cory Doctorow

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Airside

By: Christopher Priest

3.27

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented, beloved by audiences. During a time … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Priest's Airside book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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7. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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8. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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9. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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11. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • mystery
Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

12. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Berlin Exchange

By: Joseph Kanon

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From “the most accomplished spy novelist working today” ( The Sunday Times , London), a “heart-poun… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Kanon's The Berlin Exchange book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Crow Folk (Witches of Woodville, #1) by Mark  Stay

14. The Crow Folk (Witches of Woodville, #1)

By: Mark Stay

3.77

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

As Spitfires roar overhead and a dark figure stalks the village of Woodville, a young woman will di… read more

Similar categories in Mark Stay's The Crow Folk (Witches of Woodville, #1) book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The City of Stardust by Georgia  Summers

15. The City of Stardust

By: Georgia Summers

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods an… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Summers's The City of Stardust book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

16. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.89

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more

Similar categories in Seishi Yokomizo's The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre

17. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cracked Mirror book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • science fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Hokey Pokey by Kate Mascarenhas

18. Hokey Pokey

By: Kate Mascarenhas

3.34

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

February, 1929. The Regent Hotel in Birmingham is a place of deception and glamour. Behind its … read more

Similar categories in Kate Mascarenhas's Hokey Pokey book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I’ve never wanted to be compliant,"

-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

"If that memory were false, she didn’t know how the trust the rest."

-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

"Merlini Sat up in bed with the cautiousness of someone who has read too many cheap ghost stories, trying not to catch the attention of shadows."

-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

"Quarrington recognised this feeling from heavy snowfalls in prior years. He theorists that hotels should be for pleasure, or business, but never an emergency in a storm. As soon as people were confin…"

-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

19. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate by Adam Roberts

20. The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

By: Adam Roberts

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A gothic tale of murder and corruption set in 1840s Victorian London, taking inspiration from our m… read more

Similar categories in Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wilding by Ian McDonald

21. The Wilding

By: Ian McDonald

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Five kids are on a sleepover in a restored wilderness project in Ireland. With them, three teachers… read more

Similar categories in Ian McDonald's The Wilding book and Adam Roberts's The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

  • fantasy
  • fiction

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3.30

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3.70

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Dennis Lehane

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4.17

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Randy Wayne White

3.85

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