25 must-read fantasy books like Gorgons Deserve Nice Things by Tansy Rayner Roberts

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Gorgons Deserve Nice Things

By: Tansy Rayner Roberts

4.25

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

“We lived in a world that did not allow women to breathe; how could we be anything but monsters?” …

If you liked the fantasy plot in Gorgons Deserve Nice Things by Tansy Rayner Roberts , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. Who's Afraid? (Tommi Grayson #1)

By: Maria Lewis

3.76

Format: 168 pages, Trade Paperback

Incredibly exciting new voice in paranormal fiction. This is the story of Tommi, a young Scottish w… read more

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  • fantasy

2. Who's Afraid Too? (Tommi Grayson #2)

By: Maria Lewis

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tommi Grayson: all bark, all bite . . . and now she's BACK! After the worst family reunion in histo… read more

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3. 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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4. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

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  • fantasy
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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5. 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

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  • fantasy
"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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6. 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

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  • fantasy
"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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7. Murder at Haven's Rock (Haven's Rock, #1)

By: Kelley Armstrong

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s Rockton Novels had one of the most unique town… read more

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8. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.99

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more

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  • fantasy
"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

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9. Murder in Williamstown (Phryne Fisher, #22)

By: Kerry Greenwood

3.97

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Accustomed to both murder and dalliance, Australia's favourite detective, the inimitable Miss Fishe… read more

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10. The Tea Master and the Detective (The Universe of Xuya)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.85

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled hu… read more

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  • fantasy
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11. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

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  • fantasy
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12. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

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  • fantasy
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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13. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • fantasy
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14. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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  • fantasy
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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15. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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  • mythology
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Cover of Spellswept (The Harwood Spellbook, #0.5) by Stephanie Burgis

16. Spellswept (The Harwood Spellbook, #0.5)

By: Stephanie Burgis

3.96

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

In the world of the Harwood Spellbook, 19th-century Angland is ruled by a powerful group of women k… read more

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  • fantasy
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17. Mortal Follies

By: Alexis Hall

3.43

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A young noblewoman must pair up with a rumoured witch to ward off a curse. It is the year 1814 a… read more

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  • fantasy
"I’ve half a mind to seek her out right now and tell her to corrupt my daughter immediately"

-Alexis Hall, Mortal Follies

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18. Wyrde and Wayward (House of Werth #1)

By: Charlotte E. English

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

‘If you had not already realised it, this is a very strange house you are come to.’ The Scions of t… read more

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  • fantasy
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19. Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

By: Lisa Kröger

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Fr… read more

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"What do queer activism and vampires have in common? Turns out, a lot."

-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

"Perhaps the weirdest tale is how we’ve managed to forget the women who created such amazing stories."

-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

"Haunted house fictions play upon the complex fears and concerns about domestic issues that women have long grappled with."

-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

"There seems to be an unspoken assumption that women aren't interested in horror and speculative fiction, despite ample evidence to the contrary."

-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

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20. 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

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  • fantasy
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21. The Wailing Woman (Supernatural Sisters #5)

By: Maria Lewis

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Good girls don't talk back. Good girls don't cry. Good girls don't scream. Sadie Burke has been … read more

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  • fantasy
  • mythology
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22. Dangerous Flames (Good Neighbors, #5)

By: Stephanie Burgis

3.89

Format: 42 pages, ebook

No killing until the wedding's over. No killing... It is such a simple, temporary rule - but Car… read more

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  • fantasy
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23. 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

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  • fantasy
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24. 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

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  • fantasy
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25. The Rose Daughter (Supernatural Sisters #7)

By: Maria Lewis

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She never meant to be a hero... In fact, Dreckly Jones has made a point her whole life to be exa… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of When a Dragon Comes Courting (Tales from Karneesia #1) by Claire Trella Hill

26. When a Dragon Comes Courting (Tales from Karneesia #1)

By: Claire Trella Hill

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

A young mother and a dragon in a man’s guise meet in the unlikeliest of places….After her husband i… read more

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  • fantasy
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27. A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience

By: Stephanie Burgis

3.86

Format: None pages, ebook

Margaret Dunhaven may have been forced into marriage with the sinister vampire lord of Shadowcroft … read more

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  • fantasy
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28. Gorgons Deserve Nice Things

By: Tansy Rayner Roberts

4.25

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

“We lived in a world that did not allow women to breathe; how could we be anything but monsters?” … read more

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  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • short story collection
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29. Her Fierce Creatures (Supernatural Sisters, #8)

By: Maria Lewis

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Four women. One world changed forever. It has all come down to this. Werewolf Tommi Grayson alw… read more

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  • fantasy
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30. The Witch Who Courted Death (Supernatural Sisters, #4)

By: Maria Lewis

4.08

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

For some, death is a way of life . . . Considering her status as the world's most powerful mediu… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Love, Your Flatmate: A Fae Romance Short Story by Stephanie Burgis

31. Love, Your Flatmate: A Fae Romance Short Story

By: Stephanie Burgis

3.57

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

When a harried junior editor and a haughty fae composer are forced to share a small flat in London … read more

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  • fantasy

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Sherwood Smith

3.85

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K.J. Charles

4.17

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Grace Burrowes

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