20 best-selling fantasy books like Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) by Seanan McGuire

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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…

"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)

"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)

"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)

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1. 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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  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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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2. 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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3. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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4. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

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5. 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
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. 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
  • 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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7. 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
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. 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

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  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • 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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9. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

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  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of Under the Smokestrewn Sky (The Up-and-Under, #4) by A. Deborah Baker

10. Under the Smokestrewn Sky (The Up-and-Under, #4)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.99

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

The end of the improbable road. Since stumbling from their world into the Up-and-Under, Avery an… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • novella
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) by T. Kingfisher

11. 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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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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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12. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

13. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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14. 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

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Into the Windwracked Wilds (The Up-and-Under, #3) by A. Deborah Baker

15. Into the Windwracked Wilds (The Up-and-Under, #3)

By: A. Deborah Baker

4.00

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

Adventurous readers of Kelly Barnhill and Cat Valente's Fairyland books will be sure to soar among … read more

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  • novella
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. 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
Cover of Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

17. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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18. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

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19. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

20. 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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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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