Of Noble Family

10 best books like Of Noble Family (Mary Robinette Kowal): Timeless, Just One Damned Thing After Another, Od Magic, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, The True Queen, Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth, Last Night with the Earl, A Useful Woman, Pocket Apocalypse

Timeless
AuthorGail Carriger
Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampire's second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Even Ivy...
Just One Damned Thing After Another
AuthorJodi Taylor
"History is just one damned thing after another."

Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of...
Od Magic
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0441013341
Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden's gift isolates him from people--and...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
AuthorBecky Chambers
ISBN0062936018
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
The True Queen
AuthorZen Cho
In the follow-up to the "delightful" Regency fantasy novel (NPR.org) Sorcerer to the Crown, a young woman with no memories of her past finds herself embroiled in dangerous politics in England and the land of the fae.

When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda...
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure
AuthorCourtney Milan
Mrs. Bertrice Martin—a widow, some seventy-three years young—has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew.

Then proper, correct...
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
AuthorDaryl Gregory
ISBN1250209455
When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--or something else entirely. How much time do we have left, and do we even understand what timescale to use? As a slow apocalypse blooms across the Earth, planets and plants, animals and microbes, all live...
Last Night with the Earl
AuthorKelly Bowen
ISBN1478918586
After Waterloo, Eli Dawes, Earl of Rivers, was presumed dead—and would have happily stayed that way. He's no longer the reckless young man he once was, and only half as pretty. All he wants is to hide his scars away in his country home. But when he returns home and tries to sneak into his old bedroom in the...
A Useful Woman
AuthorDarcie Wilde
ISBN0425282376
Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society—including who among the ton is capable of murder...
 
The daughter of a baronet and minor heiress,...
Pocket Apocalypse
AuthorSeanan McGuire
ISBN0756408121
Endangered, adjective: Threatened with extinction or immediate harm.
Australia, noun: A good place to become endangered.

Alexander Price has survived gorgons, basilisks, and his own family—no small feat, considering that his family includes two telepaths, a reanimated corpse,...
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