If what gripped you in Memory was watching Miles lose ImpSec, confess the falsified report, and painstakingly remake himself as an Imperial Auditor, you’ll love how Ancillary Justice follows Breq—once a vast starship AI reduced to a single human body—pursuing justice inside the authoritarian Radch. Like Miles navigating Vor expectations and Imperial politics, Breq moves through ceremonies, ranks, and hidden loyalties to redefine who she is and what power she’s willing to wield.

If you enjoyed Miles methodically untangling the sabotage behind Simon Illyan’s control chip and the quiet coup simmering under ImpSec’s surface in Memory, The Prefect delivers that same satisfying investigative momentum. Field Prefect Tom Dreyfus probes a seemingly contained incident that spirals into system-wide stakes, balancing procedure, intuition, and duty—much like Miles’ pivot from covert ops to Auditor-style sleuthing and truth-telling.

If the Barrayaran court scenes in Memory hooked you—the Vor etiquette, Gregor’s delicate authority, and the way Miles must read a room as keenly as a battlefield—then you’ll savor Maia’s ascent in The Goblin Emperor. Thrust into an imperial court that would rather see him fail, Maia navigates lethal protocol and quiet alliances with the same humane, incisive tact Miles shows when he protects Illyan and steadies a tottering establishment.

If Miles’ fall from ImpSec and hard-won rebirth as an Imperial Auditor moved you—the humility, the candor before Gregor, the decision to shoulder responsibility rather than chase glory—then The Curse of Chalion will resonate. Cazaril returns from captivity shattered, yet he finds a way to serve a vulnerable court, confront corruption, and grow into a wiser, steadier version of himself, echoing Miles’ inward turn from swaggering tactics to moral courage.

If the emotional heart of Memory for you was how Miles exposes the truth about Illyan’s condition with compassion—restoring dignity while unmasking the real harm—then Speaker for the Dead hits the same nerve. Ender arrives to ‘speak’ for the deceased and, through rigorous investigation and moral clarity, reframes conflicts tearing a colony apart, much as Miles’ Auditor mindset turns fact-finding into a humane act of repair.