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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Peculiars
Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Eighteen-year-old Lena Mattacascar sets out for Scree, a weird place inhabited by Peculiars, seeking the father who left when she was young, but on the way she meets young librarian Jimson Quiggley and handsome marshall Thomas Saltre, who complicate her plans.
The Chemickal Marriage
Gordon Dahlquist · 522 pages
Miss Temple, young, wealthy, and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fiance is dead - admittedly by her own hand - her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, still at large. It falls upon Miss Temple's tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world.
Unseemly Science
Rod Duncan · 412 pages
"In the divided land of England, Elizabeth Barnabus has been living a double life -- as both herself and as her brother, the private detective. Witnessing the hanging of Alice Carter, the false duchess, Elizabeth resolves to throw the Bullet Catcher's Handbook into the fire, and forget her past. If only it were that easy! There is a new charitable organisation in town, run by some highly respectab
Innocent Darkness
Suzanne Lazear
In 1901, on an alternate Earth, sixteen-year-old Noli rejoices when a mysterious man transports her from reform school to the Realm of Faerie, until Noli learns his sinister reason.
Escapement
Jay Lake · 383 pages
Paolina Barthes is a young woman of remarkable intellectual ability--a genius on the level of Isaac Newton. But she has grown up in isolation, in a small village of shipwreck survivors, on the Wall in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She knows little of the world, but she knows that England rules it, and must be the home of people who possess the learning that she so desperately wants. And so she
The Alchemists of Loom
Elise Kova · 380 pages
In the world of Loom, Arianna, a skilled thief known as the White Wraith, secretly steals organs from ruling Dragons, while Cvareh, an exiled prince, searches for a legendary Alchemists Guild to overthrow the Dragon King. When she discovers him injured, they form an uneasy alliance, combining his need for guidance with her desire for a magical wish. Together, they must navigate a dangerous contine
The Nightmare Garden
Caitlin Kittredge
Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. Her brother isn't at Ravenhouse. Her best friend isn't who she thought he was. And there's no such thing as the Necrovirus. Her mother didn't go mad from a dormant strain, she's simply allergic to iron. As is Aoife. Because Aoife is no ordinary girl. Like her brother, Conrad, she is half human and half Fae, from the land of Thorn. And
Breath of Earth
Beth Cato · 387 pages
"In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation-- the Unified Pacific--in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong secretary Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer wardens who have no idea of the depth of her own talent--or that she is the only woman to possess such skills.
Clockwork Heart
Dru Pagliassotti · 312 pages
"A steampunkish romantic fantasy set in Ondinium, a city that beats to the ticking of a clockwork heart. Taya, a metal-winged courier, can travel freely across the city's sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. A daring mid-air rescue leads to involvement with two scions of an upperclass family and entanglement in a web of terrorism, loyalty, murder, and secrets."
Stormdancer
Jay Kristoff · 399 pages
In this dystopian steampunk fantasy set against a backdrop of feudal Japan, warrior Yukiko captures a supposedly extinct (but crippled) griffin for the Shogun, then learns -- after meeting secretive Kin and the rebel Kage cabal -- of the horrifying extent of the Shogun's crimes, both against her country and her family. Returning to the city, Yukiko is determined to make the Shogun pay -- but what
The Red Plague Affair
Lilith Saintcrow · 311 pages
Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: to find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, is only too happy to help. Unfortunately, their quarry is a fanatic, and his poisonous discovery is just as dangerous to Britannia as to Her enemies.
The Alchemy of Stone
Ekaterina Sedia · 304 pages
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 the balance of power in the city of Ayona. However, this doesn't sit well with Loharri, the Mechan
A Study in Darkness
Emma Jane Holloway · 419 pages
Evelina Cooper, the niece of the great Sherlock Holmes, is poised to enjoy her first English country house party. Just when she thinks it is safe to return to the ballroom, she is recruited as a spy and must hide her illegal dark magic. A sorcerer wants her soul yet no one can protect her in the hunting grounds of Jack the Ripper.
The Mark of the Dragonfly
Jaleigh Johnson · 400 pages
Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant lands. (From LOC data.)
The Guns Above
Robyn Bennis · 351 pages
They say it's not the fall that kills you. For Josette Dupre, the Corps' first female airship captain, it might just be a bullet in the back. On top of patrolling the front lines, she must also contend with a crew who doubts her expertise, a new airship that is an untested deathtrap, and the foppish aristocrat Lord Bernat, a gambler and shameless flirt with the military know-how of a thimble. Bern
The Greyfriar
Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith · 303 pages
In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. Millions of humans were killed outright. Millions more died of disease and famine due to the havoc that followed. Within two years, once-great cities were shrouded by the gray empire of the vampire clans. Human refugees fled south to the tropics because vampires could not tolerate the constant heat there.
Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio · 488 pages
In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in