17 best-selling fantasy books like All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie

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All the Horses of Iceland

By: Sarah Tolmie

3.53

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author…

"While Eyvind never became a literate man, he saw as he went on that books contained words that could transform men into priests and kings and healers."

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

"That was the way it was with languages, Eyvind had observed once he left home and realized how many there were: some he could see into and some he could not. Listening to them was like looking down into a stream. Sometimes the water was muddy and sometimes clear."

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

If you liked the fantasy plot in All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

1. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
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2. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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3. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's Spear book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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5. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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7. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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8. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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10. South

By: Babak Lakghomi

3.61

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

South is a haunting and hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and a… read more

Similar categories in Babak Lakghomi's South book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Arboreality

By: Rebecca Campbell

4.06

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. These Prisoning Hills

By: Christopher Rowe

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

These Prisoning Hills is a post-apocalyptic Appalachian "weird fiction" novella by Hugo and Nebula … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Rowe's These Prisoning Hills book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie

13. All the Horses of Iceland

By: Sarah Tolmie

3.53

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • novella
  • animals
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"While Eyvind never became a literate man, he saw as he went on that books contained words that could transform men into priests and kings and healers."

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

"That was the way it was with languages, Eyvind had observed once he left home and realized how many there were: some he could see into and some he could not. Listening to them was like looking down i…"

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

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14. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.21

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more

Similar categories in Moses Ose Utomi's The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1) book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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15. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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16. The Navigating Fox

By: Christopher Rowe

3.74

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an expeditio… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Rowe's The Navigating Fox book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • animals
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. High Times in the Low Parliament

By: Kelly Robson

3.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Kelly Robson is back with fairies, scribes, and many many kisses in High Times in the Low Parliamen… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Robson's High Times in the Low Parliament book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2) by Premee Mohamed

18. We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2)

By: Premee Mohamed

3.98

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds Traveling al… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2) book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. The Iron Children

By: Rebecca Fraimow

4.20

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

Asher has been training her entire life to become a Sor-Commander. One day she’ll give her soul to … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Fraimow's The Iron Children book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland

By: Tory Bilski

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."—Virgina Woolf Each June, Tory… read more

Similar categories in Tory Bilski's Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • animals
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21. The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity

By: Timothy C. Winegard

4.14

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER An International Bestseller A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book An Amazo… read more

Similar categories in Timothy C. Winegard's The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity book and Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland

  • animals

19 Best fiction books like All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie

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4.08

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