25 must-read fantasy books like Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings

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Flyaway

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.56

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished…

"Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories."

-Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

If you liked the fantasy plot in Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

1. 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 Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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2. 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 Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • 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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3. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

By: Premee Mohamed

3.72

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1) book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"

-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

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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 Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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 Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

6. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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7. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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8. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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9. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog: Stories book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

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10. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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11. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings

12. Flyaway

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.56

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • gothic
  • magical realism
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • australia
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories."

-Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

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13. 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 Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk

14. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek

15. Bitter Water Opera

By: Nicolette Polek

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more

Similar categories in Nicolette Polek's Bitter Water Opera book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • fiction
Cover of The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

16. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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17. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter

18. The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Eynhallow by Tim McGregor

19. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

20. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3) by S.L. Huang

21. Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3)

By: S.L. Huang

3.70

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

When Rosa (aka Red Riding Hood) and Hou Yi the Archer join forces to stop the deadly sunbirds from … read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3) book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Supplication by Nour Abi-Nakhoul

22. Supplication

By: Nour Abi-Nakhoul

2.67

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A hallucinatory literary horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a change… read more

Similar categories in Nour Abi-Nakhoul's Supplication book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Aug 9 - Fog⁠ by Kathryn Scanlan

23. Aug 9 - Fog⁠

By: Kathryn Scanlan

3.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Scanlan's Aug 9 - Fog⁠ book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

24. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

25. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll

26. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Rock Eaters: Stories by Brenda Peynado

27. The Rock Eaters: Stories

By: Brenda Peynado

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, … read more

Similar categories in Brenda Peynado's The Rock Eaters: Stories book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth (Ancient Lives) by Francine Prose

28. Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth (Ancient Lives)

By: Francine Prose

3.31

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian quee… read more

Similar categories in Francine Prose's Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth (Ancient Lives) book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • audiobook
Cover of Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden

29. Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters

By: Aimee Ogden

3.41

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments a… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Ogden's Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Saga #67 by Brian K. Vaughan

30. Saga #67

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW STORY ARC SAGA returns for its epic 12th season as 12-year-old Hazel embarks on the most impor… read more

Similar categories in Brian K. Vaughan's Saga #67 book and Kathleen Jennings's Flyaway

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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