11 Best novella books like The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

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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…

If you liked the novella plot in The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Something Dark and Holy

By: Emily A. Duncan

4.15

Format: 222 pages,

Vicki Lame at Wednesday Books has bought, in a three-book deal, Emily Duncan's debut YA fantasy, So… read more

Similar categories in Emily A. Duncan's Something Dark and Holy book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

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2. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

By: K. Ritz

4.33

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more

Similar categories in K. Ritz's Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • book club
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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3. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
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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 Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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. 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

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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

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6. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

By: Brom

4.29

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only… read more

Similar categories in Brom's Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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7. 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 Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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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8. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. All the Murmuring Bones

By: A.G. Slatter

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Long ago Miren O'Malley's family prospered due to a deal struck with the Mer: safety for their ship… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's All the Murmuring Bones book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"A secret seldom survives being shared."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"All the waters in the world are joined."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"She's dead, taking all my answers with her."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"The prince of assassins felled so low by a woman and a tiny knife."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

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10. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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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

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • fairy tales
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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

Cover of The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

12. 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 Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • fairy tales
  • dark fantasy
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • dark
  • horror
  • adult
  • book club
  • fantasy
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13. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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14. Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

By: Holly Black

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and … read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1) book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"She was a poisoned well of a girl."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"Everyone loves the guy who brings ice."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"The problem with monsters is that you need to keep them leashed, or they turn on you."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

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15. 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 Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • 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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16. The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.17

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi returns to his Forever Desert series with The Truth of the Aleke , continuing his e… read more

Similar categories in Moses Ose Utomi's The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2) book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

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18. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) book and Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. 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 Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

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

20. 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 Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

  • fairy tales
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy

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