The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch
By: Mary McMyne
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put h…
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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
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- fairy tales
- retellings
- fiction
- 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
2. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
3. The Familiar
By: Leigh Bardugo
3.84
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
4. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
By: Heather Fawcett
4.02
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
5. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
By: Roshani Chokshi
3.70
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship … read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"Whatever you have let me know of you, I have loved, and still love."-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
"We looked less like two distinct beings and more like a torn reflection."-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
"Look how I will carve myself to fit into your life. Who will not do less?"-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
"I was left with everything and nothing. I was free and forever trapped. I was a multitude of blues."-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
6. The Magician’s Daughter
By: H.G. Parry
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and m… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was …"-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream …"-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
7. The Weaver and the Witch Queen
By: Genevieve Gornichec
3.88
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to… read more
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- historical fantasy
- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- witches
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
8. How to Be Eaten
By: Maria Adelmann
3.60
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in… read more
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- fairy tales
- retellings
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"But something changes after tragedy,"-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten
"Morals create a labyrinth of rules geared toward blaming the victim"-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten
"What if, for some of us, moving on involves finding good in the bad? Or being thankful for how we changed? That doesn't mean we wished it to happen."-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten
"Maybe just don't leave the house at all", Gretel pipes in. "Maybe stay home". "But isn't that where accidents happen?" says Ashlee. "So lock all of the doors", says Ruby. "Doesn't always help", says …"-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten
9. Lilith
By: Nikki Marmery
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North, Lilith is the story of the first woman, who w… read more
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- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it."-Nikki Marmery, Lilith
"In time we came to the point that most closely concerned [the women]: that all life is precious, but Creation is a power to be used sparingly, not relentlessly, without care or concern for their heal…"-Nikki Marmery, Lilith
10. The Witch and the Tsar
By: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
3.56
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning debut novel, the maligned and immortal witch of legend known as Baba Yaga will ris… read more
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- historical fantasy
- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- witches
- adult
- fantasy
"Once war is on men's minds, it festers within, claiming them."-Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar
"Whoever came ... did so when their prayers had gone unanswered, when the mortal healers had thrown up their hands. They came in the depths of their despair."-Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar
11. Nettle & Bone
By: T. Kingfisher
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more
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- fairy tales
- fiction
- witches
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
12. The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch
By: Mary McMyne
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put h… read more
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- fairy tales
- historical fantasy
- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- witches
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
13. Still the Sun
By: Charlie N. Holmberg
4.03
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
An ancient machine holds the secrets of a distant world’s past for two intimate strangers in the la… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
14. The God of Endings
By: Jacqueline Holland
3.80
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
15. Sin Eater
By: Megan Campisi
3.61
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a … read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It's always women who eat sins, since it was Eve who first ate a sin: the Forbidden Fruit."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"With how you came into the world and what you've seen lately you should know, the more you live, the more the sinner and the saint can't be pulled apart. All of us just getting by."-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
"Don’t I know by now that folk see their sins in the way they choose? There’s always a reason as to why selfishness is not really selfish and crimes are honest and waiting safely by while somefolk els…"-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater
16. Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror
By: Mitchell Lüthi
4.12
Format: 708 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in 12th-century Jerusalem, Pilgrim follows the treacherous journey of a German knight and his c… read more
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- historical
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolph
By: Kate Braithwaite
4.30
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
A compelling historical retelling of the first great scandal to shake America. Victim? Temptress… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Devil and Mrs. Davenport
By: Paulette Kennedy
4.24
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors o… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. After the Forest
By: Kell Woods
3.81
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurt… read more
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- fairy tales
- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- witches
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"And old enough to know that womenfolk have little enough power of their own. That is why they must have their charms and their tricks. Their books and their ink and blood. Their eyes, their smiles, t…"-Kell Woods, After the Forest
20. The Path of Thorns
By: A.G. Slatter
4.00
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess t… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"I shake myself, feel the past cascade from my shoulders."-A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns
21. 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
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- fairy tales
- retellings
- fiction
- witches
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
