The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity

10 best books like The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity (Joshua Palmatier): Blameless, Heartless, Timeless, Middlegame, Honor Among Thieves, Reticence, The Alchemy of Stone, An Illusion of Thieves, Bewere the Night, An Act of Villainy

AuthorGail Carriger
ISBN0316074152
Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.

Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia...
Heartless
AuthorGail Carriger
ISBN0316127191
Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's...
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...
Middlegame
AuthorSeanan McGuire
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.

Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.

Roger...
Honor Among Thieves
AuthorRachel Caine
Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead of moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell.

Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared,...
Reticence
AuthorGail Carriger
ISBN0316433918
Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's The Custard Protocol series.

Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her...
AuthorEkaterina Sedia
ISBN0809572842
Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets -- secrets that can completely alter...
An Illusion of Thieves
AuthorCate Glass
In Cantagna, being a sorcerer is a death sentence.

Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when she becomes courtesan to the Shadow Lord, a revolutionary noble who brings laws and comforts once reserved for the wealthy to all. When her brother, Neri, is caught thieving with the aid of magic,...
AuthorEkaterina Sedia
ISBN1607012529
Kitsune. Werewolves. Crane wives. Selkies. Every culture has stories of such strange creatures -- animals turning into humans, humans shapeshifting into animals. Sometimes seductive, sometimes bloodthirsty, but always unpredictable like nature itself, these beings are manifestations of...
AuthorAshley Weaver
Edgar Award-shortlisted author Ashley Weaver returns with the fifth installment in the Amory Ames mystery series.

An Act of Villainy is a gem, filled with style, banter, and twists that traditional mystery fans will positively relish.

"So you've gotten yourself involved with...
Compulsory
AuthorMartha Wells
Murderbot prequel short story! 3.5 stars. It's free online here at Wired magazine. Review posted on Fantasy Literature:

I hugely enjoyed reading the four MURDERBOT DIARIES novellas last year, so when I found that Martha Wells had published a prequel short story online in December, I was all...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024