18 Best audiobook books like Desdemona and the Deep by C.S.E. Cooney

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Desdemona and the Deep

By: C.S.E. Cooney

3.85

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELLAAward-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, di…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Desdemona and the Deep by C.S.E. Cooney , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

By: Kij Johnson

3.66

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women's College. When one of her most gifte… read more

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  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Wurms of Blearmouth (The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, #5)

By: Steven Erikson

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

A new novella from New York Timesbestselling author Steven Erikson, set in the world of the Malazan… read more

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  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. Night of Knives (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #1)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The empire is named for the tiny island and city of Malaz, now a sleepy, seedy backwater port. Toni… read more

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4. 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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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. 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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  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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6. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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7. 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
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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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8. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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10. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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11. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. 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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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

By: Lina Rather

4.01

Format: 176 pages, ebook

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. 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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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

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  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2)

By: Lina Rather

3.81

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • queer
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17. The Navigating Fox

By: Christopher Rowe

3.74

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an expeditio… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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18. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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19. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Chaos Reigning (Consortium Rebellion, #3) by Jessie Mihalik

20. Chaos Reigning (Consortium Rebellion, #3)

By: Jessie Mihalik

4.04

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Interplanetary intrigue and romance combine in this electrifying finale to the Consortium Rebellion… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. The Blue Salt Road

By: Joanne M. Harris

3.90

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

An earthly nourris sits and sings And aye she sings, "Ba lilly wean, Little ken I my bairn's fath… read more

Similar categories in Joanne M. Harris's The Blue Salt Road book and C.S.E. Cooney's Desdemona and the Deep

  • mythology
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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23. For She Is Wrath

By: Emily Varga

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, Pakistani romantic fantasy retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo, where one girl seeks… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. Uncommon Charm

By: Emily Bergslien

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A Champagne Gothic! Three days after I was expelled from the Marable School for Girls, our poor… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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25. 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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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Aurora Blazing (Consortium Rebellion, #2) by Jessie Mihalik

26. Aurora Blazing (Consortium Rebellion, #2)

By: Jessie Mihalik

4.07

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Bianca von Hasenberg did her duty for High House von Hasenberg and ended up trapped in a terrible m… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Anyone lucky enough to be entrusted with your heart would be a fool to treat it carelessly."

-Jessie Mihalik, Aurora Blazing (Consortium Rebellion, #2)

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27. The Two Doctors Górski

By: Isaac Fellman

3.44

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can’t stop… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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28. Miranda in Milan

By: Katharine Duckett

3.51

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s … read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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29. Desdemona and the Deep

By: C.S.E. Cooney

3.85

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELLAAward-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, di… read more

Similar categories in C.S.E. Cooney's Desdemona and the Deep book and C.S.E. Cooney's Desdemona and the Deep

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • fae
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30. The City in Glass

By: Nghi Vo

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in th… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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31. Yield Under Great Persuasion

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Tam Becket has hated Lord Lyford since they were boys. The fact that he’s also been sleeping with t… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

30 must-read fiction books like Desdemona and the Deep by C.S.E. Cooney

Transform Your Habits

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

Kij Johnson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Wurms of Blearmouth (The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, #5)

Steven Erikson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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21 Top fiction books like The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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The Stardust Grail

Yume Kitasei

3.78

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Veronica Roth

3.73

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