17 must-read fantasy books like The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster

The Drowning Eyes

By: Emily Foster

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

When the Dragon Ships began to tear through the trade lanes and ravage coastal towns, the hopes of …

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1. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

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  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

2. The Drowning Eyes

By: Emily Foster

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

When the Dragon Ships began to tear through the trade lanes and ravage coastal towns, the hopes of … read more

Similar categories in Emily Foster's The Drowning Eyes book and Emily Foster's The Drowning Eyes

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • pirates
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy

3. The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1)

By: J.Y. Yang

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children.… read more

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4. The Red Threads of Fortune (Tensorate #2)

By: J.Y. Yang

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensor… read more

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5. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

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  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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6. Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

3.52

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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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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  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

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  • novella
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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9. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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10. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

By: Nghi Vo

4.18

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

Cover of The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo

11. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) book and Emily Foster's The Drowning Eyes

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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12. The Light Brigade

By: Kameron Hurley

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…dif… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them. But I know better now. I know there is a greater power…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"You have War of the Worlds?" I asked the knu. It returned twenty different films, sixteen editions of a text, but no radio play. Radio drama. That's the word Tanaka had used. One text said it was his…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"When I’m old and dying, wheezing my guts out, my organs failing, I want to walk out the front door of some old farmhouse on my own land, maybe forty, fifty hectares of it. I want to find a cool place…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

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13. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and Emily Foster's The Drowning Eyes

  • novella
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1) by Joan He

14. Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)

By: Joan He

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When i was mortal, I thought myself a god."

-Joan He, Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)

"People are more predictable than they care to admit."

-Joan He, Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)

"You wound me I remove his hand and meet him in the eye. "No worse than I already have."

-Joan He, Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)

Cover of Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1) by Eliza Chan

15. Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

By: Eliza Chan

3.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of r… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

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  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Descent of Monsters (Tensorate, #3) by Neon Yang

17. The Descent of Monsters (Tensorate, #3)

By: Neon Yang

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

JY Yang continues to redefine the limits of silkpunk fantasy with their Tensorate novellas, which t… read more

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  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2) by Justina Ireland

18. Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

By: Justina Ireland

4.16

Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition

The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Daniel Redfern laughs, the first real laugh I've ever heard from him, and I am put out. I am much funnier than Katherine. - Jane"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

"Things were good, and by the time we ended up in Denver we were sharing more than just stories. Unlike so much else in our lives, it felt... easy. I guess falling for someone always is. It's the stay…"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

"You're a heartbreaker, Katherine Devereaux." "That has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them," I say, blowing on my coffee before sipping it. There's chicory in the brew and I drink it…"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

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19. Monsters Born and Made

By: Tanvi Berwah

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Koral and her older brother Emrik risk their lives each day to capture the monstro… read more

Similar categories in Tanvi Berwah's Monsters Born and Made book and Emily Foster's The Drowning Eyes

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"But bruises on your mother's body are hard to miss when you embrace her, and she gasps in pain."

-Tanvi Berwah, Monsters Born and Made

"If the one person you have always trusted to make sense of the snakes of anxiety knotting in your mind over and over again, suddenly stops even listening to you, what do you do?"

-Tanvi Berwah, Monsters Born and Made

"I was born in anger. I live with it. It's everywhere. It's in the way people look at us. It's in the way we exist. It's the way we burn. What do you know of how angry I am, Dorian Akayan?"

-Tanvi Berwah, Monsters Born and Made

"I know better now, the rules of this game of power were always stacked against people like us. And while we fought one another, they ran things like they wanted. We're made to feel like we're part of…"

-Tanvi Berwah, Monsters Born and Made

Cover of A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

20. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and Emily Foster's The Drowning Eyes

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1) by K.S. Villoso

21. The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

By: K.S. Villoso

3.65

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A queen of a divided land must unite her people, even if they hate her, even if it means stopping a… read more

Similar categories in K.S. Villoso's The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1) book and Emily Foster's The Drowning Eyes

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The reality of ruling is complex."

-K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

"The loss does not diminish the love."

-K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

"Betrayal has a funny way of turning your world upside-down."

-K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

"There was more to being a leader than cutting down enemies."

-K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

19 best-selling fiction books like The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

The Drowning Eyes

Emily Foster

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

Seanan McGuire

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo

3.52

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21 best-selling fiction books like When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2) by Nghi Vo

Transform Your Habits

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

Seanan McGuire

4.09

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

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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