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• To Say Nothing of the Dog

  How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

  Willis, Connie,

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  If you like this one, try her books Blackout, All Clear, and The Doomsday Book (all set in the same universe)

• Princess Floralinda and the Forty-flight Tower

  Muir, Tamsyn,

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  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!

• Spinning Silver

  Novik, Naomi,

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  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!

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  Somewhere between SF and Fantasy? More rich details, political and social commentary, unforgettable characters. Part 1 of a trilogy.

• The Starless Sea

  Morgenstern, Erin,

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  Magic, time travel, mystery, excellent worldbuilding, fairy tale-esque, whimsical and dark.

• Children of Blood and Bone

  Adeyemi, Tomi,

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  Set in a highly-fictionalized Nigeria. Worldbuilding? Check. Intrigue? Check. Magic? Check and no check!

• Babel

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

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  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.

• Hild

  Griffith, Nicola,

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  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.)

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia,

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  Similar in feel, different genre! Mystery and magical realism. Do you like Isabel Allende? Give this a try!

• Redshirts

  Scalzi, John, 1969-

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  Pratchett-esque comedic SF, send up of Star Trek