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Adult Book Bingo - Suggested by Staff

Staff suggestions for Fran, who loves Terry Pratchett, SF/Fantasy, historical fiction, and drama. Touch of romance okay, but Romantasy is currently a no thank you.

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  • To Say Nothing of the Dog

    How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

    Willis, Connie,
    If you like this one, try her books Blackout, All Clear, and The Doomsday Book (all set in the same universe)
    Book, 2023New York : Del Ray, an imprint of Random House, 2023.
  • Fairly Pratchett-esque. Fairy-tale princess must rescue herself because the witch who imprisoned her did too good a job at making the rescue hard. If you like this one, try Gideon the Ninth!
    Book, 2020Burton, MI : Subterranean Press, 2020.
  • Richly detailed story, sort of an adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin. If you like this one, try her Uprooted and if you want to dip into alt history rather than alt fairy tale, try her Temeraire series for Napoleonic Era Dragons!
    eBook, 2018New York : Del Rey, [2018]
  • Somewhere between SF and Fantasy? More rich details, political and social commentary, unforgettable characters. Part 1 of a trilogy.
    eBook, 2015New York : Orbit, 2015.
  • Magic, time travel, mystery, excellent worldbuilding, fairy tale-esque, whimsical and dark.
    eBook, 2019New York : Doubleday, [2019]
  • Set in a highly-fictionalized Nigeria. Worldbuilding? Check. Intrigue? Check. Magic? Check and no check!
    eBook, 2018New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
  • Babel

    or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),
    Detailed worldbuilding, dark and moody, based on real bits of British colonial history. If you like this one, try The Poppy War by the same author.
    eBook, 2022New York : HarperCollins, 2022.
  • Something similar in feel, but different genre! This one is straight historical fiction, set in 7th century Britain. (Similar to, but better than, Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, imo.)
    eBook, 2013New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
  • Similar in feel, different genre! Mystery and magical realism. Do you like Isabel Allende? Give this a try!
    eBook, 2024New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
  • Pratchett-esque comedic SF, send up of Star Trek
    eBook, 2012New York : Tor, 2012.