Books like The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The crew of a wormhole-tunneling ship takes a lucrative, dangerous long-haul job, and the slow trip becomes a found-family story in a human-scale galaxy.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
A by-the-book caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth is sent to inspect a secret island orphanage whose children include the Antichrist, and starts to question the rules he has always followed.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Sibling Dex, a tea monk who travels the villages of the moon Panga serving tea and listening to people's troubles, wanders into the wilderness and meets Mosscap, the first robot anyone has seen since robots walked away from human society centuries ago.
Winter's Orbit
Prince Kiem, the emperor's least useful grandson, is ordered into a political marriage with Count Jainan, widower of a cousin who died in suspicious circumstances, to keep a treaty alive.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea
Reyna, a guard sworn to a cruel queen, and Kianthe, the most powerful mage in the world, run away together to open the bookshop and tea shop they have always dreamed of in a frontier town, where trouble finds them anyway.
Legends & Lattes
After a lifetime of swords and blood, Viv the orc mercenary hangs up her blade to open the first coffee shop in the city of Thune, though a strange new drink, old enemies and new friends make it harder than she expected.
Falling Free
Leo Graf, an engineer sent to a space station to teach welding, finds his students are quaddies, people engineered with four arms for zero gravity and owned by a corporation that is about to get rid of them.
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Tao, a travelling fortune-teller whose small magic sees only small futures, keeps to the road with her mule until a reformed thief and an ex-mercenary ask her help to find a lost child, and a baker and a slightly magical cat join them.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Four astronauts on a mission funded by people back on Earth reshape their own bodies to survive the life-bearing worlds they have come to survey around a distant star, and record what they find for whoever is still listening at home.
Light from Uncommon Stars
Shizuka Satomi, a famous violin teacher who made a deal with a demon to deliver seven souls, has one left to find when she hears Katrina Nguyen, a runaway trans girl, playing in a park in the San Gabriel Valley, near a doughnut shop run by a family of interstellar refugees.
A Memory Called Empire
A young ambassador from a small colony arrives at the heart of a vast empire, where memory is currency and identity is a political weapon.
Foundation
As the Galactic Empire decays, mathematician Hari Seldon plants a colony of scholars on a remote planet to shorten the coming dark age, and his successors survive crisis after crisis his equations foresaw.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Mika Moon, one of the few witches in Britain, hides her magic by pretending to be one online, until a message from the mysterious Nowhere House asks her to teach three young witches, to the alarm of its prickly librarian, Jamie.