Books like City of Stairs

City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett reads as tense, inventive. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The library at Mount Char

Scott Hawkins · 2015

Both explore power & gods

63% genome match

Zoo City

Lauren Beukes · 2010

Same fantasy feel

52% genome match

Two serpents rise

Max Gladstone · 2013

Both explore gods

52% genome match

The City We Became

N.K. Jemisin · 2020

Same fantasy feel

50% genome match

Days of Magic, Nights of War

Clive Barker · 2002

Both explore power

48% genome match

Gods War

Kameron Hurley · 2001

Same fantasy feel

50% genome match

Johannes Cabal, the detective

Jonathan L. Howard · 2010

Same fantasy feel

52% genome match

The Modern World

Steph Swainston · 2007

Same fantasy feel

50% genome match

Senlin Ascends

Josiah Bancroft · 2013

Same fantasy feel

46% genome match

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman · 1996

Same fantasy feel

43% genome match

The Half-Made World

Felix Gilman · 2010

Same fantasy feel

47% genome match

The Rhesus Chart

Charles Stross · 2014

Both explore espionage

47% genome match