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In the Cities of Coin and Spice

10 best books like In the Cities of Coin and Spice (Catherynne M. Valente): Fudoki, Nobody's Son, The Bird of the River, Bone Swans, Whiskey and Water, In the Forest of Forgetting, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, The Innamorati, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

Fudoki
AuthorKij Johnson
ISBN0765303914
Enter the world of Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen--who may or may not be a figment of the imagination of an aging empress who is embarking on the last journey of her life, setting aside the trappings of court life and reminiscing...
Nobody's Son
AuthorSean Stewart
ISBN0441001289
The magical tale of the unhappy things that happen to a hero after "happily ever after".

Suddenly Shielder's Mark is living a fairy tale come true. A commoner's son, he has broken the spell of Red Keep. Now he can collect the hero's reward promised by the king--whatever Mark names. Smitten, he...
The Bird of the River
AuthorKage Baker
In this new story set in the world of The Anvil of the World and The House of the Stag, two teenagers join the crew of a huge river barge after their addict mother is drowned. The girl and her half-breed younger brother try to make the barge their new home. As the great boat proceeds up the long river, we see a...
Bone Swans
AuthorC.S.E. Cooney
ISBN0988912449
A swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confronts both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder...
Whiskey and Water
AuthorElizabeth Bear
ISBN0451461495
Several years ago, Matthew the Magician ended an age-old war. It only cost him everything-and everyone-he knew and loved. Turning against his mentor, Jane Andraste, in the realm of Faerie left him physically crippled and his power shattered.

But Matthew remains the protector of New York...
In the Forest of Forgetting
AuthorTheodora Goss
ISBN1907881182
The reprint of In the Forest of Forgetting by award-winning author Theodora Goss, first published in 2006 by Prime Books, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cover art by Virginia Lee. The table of contents has been slightly modified: "Phalaenopsis" has been replaced by "Her Mother's Ghosts,"...
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0142404063
Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over--benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have...
Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
AuthorGreer Gilman
ISBN1931520550
I am wind and memory who spells this . . . Gilman’s second novel, Cloud & Ashes, is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion, study, revisitation, and delight. To step into her world is to witness the bright flashes, witty turns, and shadowy...
The Innamorati
AuthorMidori Snyder
ISBN0312861974
A brilliant fantasy novel set in an alternate Renaissance VeniceDo you know the city Labirinto?

The blind know it, and the frustrated in love know it; the barren women, the silenced poets, the drunken priests, the stuttering actors -- all the unfortunates who suffer from cursed lives. They...
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0679762221
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty...
The Dragon Griaule
AuthorLucius Shepard
ISBN1596064560
More than twenty-five years ago, Lucius Shepard introduced us to a remarkable fictional world, a world separated from our own “by the thinnest margin of possibility.” There, in the mythical Carbonales Valley, Shepard found the setting for “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,” the classic...
The Book of the Mad
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0879514817
In her darkly dazzling finish to The Secret Books of Paradys, Tanith Lee tempts the reader with a tale of horror, lust and madness that leaves no perversity untouched, no taboo unbroken. This time, the seductive nightmare unfolds in three parallel versions of the City - Paradis, Paradys and Paradise....
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
AuthorEkaterina Sedia
ISBN0979624606
This anthology of 21 original fantasy stories explores humanity’s most dynamic and forceful creation—the city. Featuring tales from fantasy heavyweights such as Hal Duncan, Catherynne M. Valente, Jay Lake, and Barth Anderson, the collection whisks readers from dizzying rooftop perches...
Ink
AuthorHal Duncan
ISBN0345487338
It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to...
Kekkaishi, Vol. 09
AuthorYellow Tanabe
The three kekkaishi-in-arms, Tokine, Yoshimori, and Gen, are not getting along! So much so that Gen's sensei, Atora, challenges them to a task requiring real teamwork! But their loyalty to each other is really tested when the Kokuboro princess falls ill, and the ayakashi attempt to cure her! Plus,...
The Line Between
AuthorPeter S. Beagle
ISBN1892391368
Featuring the Hugo and Nebula award-winning original novelette from the world of The Last Unicorn, "Two Hearts."

The long-awaited sequel to the popular classic The Last Unicorn is the centerpiece of this powerful collection of new tales from a fantasy master. As longtime fans have come to...
Basara, Vol. 9
AuthorYumi Tamura
ISBN1591163692
Synopsis:

Sarasa has been blinded, and the Red King's rule has finally been torn apart by outside influences. Now both find themselves in Okinawa-she to heal her eyes, he to heal his soul.

My Thoughts:

Even in someone else's country, Shuri and Sarasa find themselves in a mess!...
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