11 must-read historical books like Westside Lights by W.M. Akers

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Westside Lights

By: W.M. Akers

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Alienist meets the magical mystery of The Ninth House as W. M. Akers returns with the third boo…

If you liked the historical plot in Westside Lights by W.M. Akers , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.12

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Words are weapons Princess Skara has seen all she loved made blood and ashes. She is left with only… read more

Similar categories in Joe Abercrombie's Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)

By: Joe Abercrombie

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Thorn Bathu was born to fight. But when she kills a boy in the training square she finds herself na… read more

Similar categories in Joe Abercrombie's Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3) by Alan Bradley

3. A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)

By: Alan Bradley

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously cle… read more

Similar categories in Alan Bradley's A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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4. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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6. Mr. Flood's Last Resort

By: Jess Kidd

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Go… read more

Similar categories in Jess Kidd's Mr. Flood's Last Resort book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe."

-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort

"The wind grabbed a handful of sand and scattered it like bright confetti along the hard-packed, sea-scoured, deserted beach. The sky had a newly rinsed look, the clouds spun and wrung out on high."

-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort

"My sister said that when the tide was out you could walk all the way to America; the waves pulled back that far. So far that the starfish forgot there ever was an ocean and stiffened with dismay. So …"

-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort

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7. The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2)

By: Richard Swan

4.30

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

From a major new debut author in epic fantasy comes the second book in a trilogy where action, intr… read more

Similar categories in Richard Swan's The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Age of Ash (Kithamar, #1)

By: Daniel Abraham

3.68

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countle… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Abraham's Age of Ash (Kithamar, #1) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Darkness Knows (Detective Konrad #1)

By: Arnaldur Indriðason

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Retired detective Konrad returns to a haunting cold case in The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridas… read more

Similar categories in Arnaldur Indriðason's The Darkness Knows (Detective Konrad #1) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Blade of Dream (Kithamar, #2)

By: Daniel Abraham

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countle… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Abraham's Blade of Dream (Kithamar, #2) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Foundling

By: Ann Leary

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House , the story of two friends, raised in … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leary's The Foundling book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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12. The Grace of Wild Things

By: Heather Fawcett

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explo… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's The Grace of Wild Things book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And though she'd always liked reading about faraway places, wasn't it also nice, she asked, to have somebody make you see all the beautiful things right under your nose?"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"Eavesdropping is not a virtue in a young lady," Mrs Crumley said. "Is it a virtue in an old lady?" Grace demanded, her temper flaring. "You seem to learn half your gossip that way."

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"The world was a different place once. People didn’t own forests when I was a girl. Forests simply were. We witches could drift from place to place, from wood to wood, weaving cottages from magic and …"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

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13. Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)

By: C.L. Polk

3.87

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigu… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1) by Ariel Kaplan

14. The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1)

By: Ariel Kaplan

3.99

Format: 545 pages, Hardcover

Ariel Kaplan’s The Pomegranate Gate is the lyrical first installment of the Mirror Realm Cycle, a v… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Kaplan's The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Reluctant Immortals

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.54

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes … read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

"The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time. First it was her friends, the Texan …"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

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16. Things in Jars

By: Jess Kidd

3.70

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Bridie Devine, female detective extraordinaire, is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: th… read more

Similar categories in Jess Kidd's Things in Jars book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Stories, particularly the bad ones, are told in their own time."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"The raven turns in her element and the world turns too, confirming what she already knew: she is the centre of everything."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"For this is their parting: as sudden and slow, surprising and foreseen as any parting. Between together and apart: an eyeblink and all of eternity."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"Sir Edmund is a collector, an insatiable, relentless collector, with an interest in anomalies and mutations, aberrations and malformations of life in or around the realm of water. If it swims or padd…"

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

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17. Her Little Flowers

By: Shannon Morgan

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family’s ancestral home, a rambling Eliz… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Morgan's Her Little Flowers book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Burntcoat

By: Sarah Hall

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying novel of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a de… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hall's Burntcoat book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar."

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

"I did not contact my father. He had another family; he was a stranger. I'd been raised, capably and neglectfully, by a borrowed woman and her shadow. I lay on Naomi's bed in the empty cottage, comfor…"

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

"There's blindness to new lovers. They exist in the rare atmosphere of their own colony, trusting by sense and feel, creatures consuming each other, building shelters with their hopes. Other worlds ce…"

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

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19. Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.83

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fra… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. American Mermaid

By: Julia Langbein

3.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more

Similar categories in Julia Langbein's American Mermaid book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"

-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid

"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"

-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid

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21. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1) by Erin M. Evans

22. Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1)

By: Erin M. Evans

3.99

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Magic, mystery, and revolution collide in this fantasy epic where an unlikely team of mages, scribe… read more

Similar categories in Erin M. Evans's Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

23. 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 W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) by Claire North

24. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

By: Claire North

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2) by Megan Bannen

25. The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2)

By: Megan Bannen

4.15

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy comes a heartwarming fantasy with a best frien… read more

Similar categories in Megan Bannen's The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11) by Alan Bradley

26. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)

By: Alan Bradley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more

Similar categories in Alan Bradley's What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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27. Bang Bang Bodhisattva

By: Aubrey Wood

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Someone wants trans girl hacker-for-hire Kiera Umehara in prison or dead—but for what? Failing to f… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Wood's Bang Bang Bodhisattva book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) by Andrea Stewart

28. The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1)

By: Andrea Stewart

3.70

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The series is set in a world ravaged by ancient magic, where precious gemstones bestow magical abil… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Stewart's The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Queen City Detective Agency

By: Snowden Wright

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspi… read more

Similar categories in Snowden Wright's The Queen City Detective Agency book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Westside Lights by W.M. Akers

30. Westside Lights

By: W.M. Akers

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Alienist meets the magical mystery of The Ninth House as W. M. Akers returns with the third boo… read more

Similar categories in W.M. Akers's Westside Lights book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • urban fantasy
  • historical
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Parry

31. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

By: H.G. Parry

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Magician's Daughter comes The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a mythic, ma… read more

Similar categories in H.G. Parry's The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door book and W.M. Akers's Westside Lights

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

31 must-read fiction books like Westside Lights by W.M. Akers

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Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3)

Joe Abercrombie

4.12

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Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)

Joe Abercrombie

0.00

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A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)

Alan Bradley

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz

3.37

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21 must-read fiction books like The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

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The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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T. Kingfisher

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