Books like “The Goblin Emperor”

What to read after “The Goblin Emperor” by Katherine Addison: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy” and “Comfort Read”
Viv, a battle-weary orc, trades her sword for an espresso machine and opens the first coffee shop in the city of Thune. With a hobgoblin carpenter, a reformed succubus and a skeletal latte artist, she builds a warm new life -- but her old mercenary crew has not finished with her yet.
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The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
A grieving schoolboy meets a talking tabby who leads him through a labyrinth of libraries to rescue books from careless owners. Each strange trial nudges him back toward the world and the people he has shut out.
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The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst · 2024
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
- Found Family
After fire wrecks the Great Library, librarian Kiela escapes with crates of spell books to her late family's island cottage. To help the struggling villagers she secretly sells spells, and slowly lets her guarded heart make room for friendship, community and love.
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Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson · 2023
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
Tress lives on an island where the seas are made of deadly spores. When the man she loves is taken by the Sorceress, she leaves her ordinary life, gathers an unlikely crew and sails toward the midnight sea to bring him home.
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett · 2023
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
Emily Wilde, a prickly scholar of faerie folklore, travels to a frozen northern village to finish her encyclopaedia. Her charming colleague Wendell follows, and the two must bargain with the hidden folk whose mischief binds the village -- and Emily herself -- to an old tale.
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Megan Bannen · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
Hart is a lonely marshal who hunts the undead; Mercy runs her family's funeral home and finds Hart insufferable. After a bitter week, each writes an anonymous letter to a stranger, and a warm correspondence begins without either knowing who is on the other end. Meanwhile, real life keeps forcing them together.
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Beauty
Robin McKinley · 1978
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
A plain, bookish youngest daughter takes her father's place as a prisoner in an enchanted castle. As she comes to know the beast who lives there, she slowly learns that beauty and love are not what she was taught to expect.
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Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer · 2023
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
- Found Family
Out of work and desperate, Evie Sage takes a job as assistant to the kingdom's most feared villain. Her boss is grumpy, the work is murder, and someone close to him is betraying him. Evie's sunny good cheer may be exactly what his gloomy fortress was missing.
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Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones · 1986
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
- Found Family
Cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, Sophie takes shelter in the moving castle of the vain wizard Howl. Amid a fire demon, a scarecrow and Howl's tangled contracts, she finds a home and a way to break her own spell.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
- Found Family
Mika Moon hides her magic and never lets herself grow close to anyone. When a strange house asks her to teach three young witches, she meets a prickly librarian, a house full of secrets and the possibility of a place that finally feels like home.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2015
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
In a small Tokyo cafe, one seat lets a visitor travel to the past. There are rules: you cannot change the present, you must not leave the seat, and you must return before the coffee goes cold. Four customers sit down, each hoping to say what was left unsaid.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
- Found Family
Linus Baker, a lonely case worker, is sent to a remote island orphanage to check on six unusual children and their mysterious master, Arthur Parnassus. What begins as a routine inspection slowly becomes a choice between following the rules and protecting a family he comes to love.