24 best-selling fiction books like The Midnight Circus by Jane Yolen

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The Midnight Circus

By: Jane Yolen

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Midnight Circus - and watch your step. The dark imaginings of fantasy icon Jane Yole…

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Cover of Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, Gahan Wilson, Diana Wynne Jones, Saki, Larry Niven, Maria Dahvana Headley, Avram Davidson, Peter S. Beagle, Samuel R. Delany, Anthony Boucher, E. Lily Yu, E. Nesbit, Nalo Hopkinson, Frank R. Stockton, None

1. Unnatural Creatures

By: Neil Gaiman , Nnedi Okorafor , Gahan Wilson , Diana Wynne Jones , Saki , Larry Niven , Maria Dahvana Headley , Avram Davidson , Peter S. Beagle , Samuel R. Delany , Anthony Boucher , E. Lily Yu , E. Nesbit , Nalo Hopkinson , Frank R. Stockton , None

3.88

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only i… read more

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  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"You're playing with fire," she warned him. "That's how I know I'm alive."

-Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

"I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of course, and while the Natural History Museum was filled with dead things, the phoenix is alw…"

-Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

"Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I sa…"

-Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

"Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I sa…"

-Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures

Cover of Jackalope Wives And Other Stories by T. Kingfisher

2. Jackalope Wives And Other Stories

By: T. Kingfisher

3.67

Format: 230 pages,

Winner of the Nebula and WSFA Short Fiction Awards From award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a … read more

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  • fairy tales
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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3. Hungry Ghosts (Eric Carter, #3)

By: Stephen Blackmoore

3.70

Format: None pages,

Necromancer Eric Carter's problems keep getting bigger. Bad enough he's the unwilling husband to th… read more

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  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Broken Souls (Eric Carter, #2)

By: Stephen Blackmoore

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

When necromancer Eric Carter returned to Los Angeles after fifteen years on the run he knew things … read more

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  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. A Fine and Private Place

By: Peter S. Beagle , Darrell Sweet

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This classic tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction

6. The Library at Night

By: Alberto Manguel

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, the author… read more

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7. The Night Circus

By: Erin Morgenstern

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday… read more

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  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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8. Mao's Last Dancer

By: Li Cunxin

3.63

Format: 143 pages,

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9. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

By: R.A. Dick , Josephine Leslie

4.28

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Co… read more

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10. French Milk

By: Lucy Knisley

4.26

Format: None pages,

Through delightful drawings, photographs, and musings, twenty-three-year-old Lucy Knisley documents… read more

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11. Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1

By: Ryoko Kui

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a… read more

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12. Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing, #1)

By: Vivian Shaw

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive… read more

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13. Run: Book One

By: John Lewis

4.31

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award–winning team behind March comes the f… read more

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14. Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

By: Laird Barron

3.99

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valle… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"God lit a candle and then made us. He was afraid of being alone in the dark."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

"I'm a wary believer in signs and portents. The universe is always muttering threats."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

Cover of Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1) by Laird Barron

15. Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1)

By: Laird Barron

3.95

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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16. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

Cover of The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn) by Peter S. Beagle

17. The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One brand-new, long-awaited novella, and one Hugo and Nebula award winning novella, both featuring … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Death said he would wait for me, but not forever."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

"You will have to excuse me, I am not even sure if I could tell you what a friend looks like, or what they do. But I think you might be my one friend, if that should suit you."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

"The worst thing in the world is not to lose all you have. The worst thing in this world is not having your heart broken. Loss passes, pain passes - even heartbreak passes. The very worst thing in thi…"

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

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18. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

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19. Thistlefoot

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.96

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"what is a memory if not a ghost?"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

Cover of Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1) by Genevieve Cogman

20. Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

By: Genevieve Cogman

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved. It is 1793 an… read more

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  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
"Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it."

-Genevieve Cogman, Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

Cover of The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

21. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Nightmare Country, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

22. Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.09

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Neil Gaiman's seminal epic The Sandman, in a new series starring fan-favorit… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Midnight Circus by Jane Yolen

23. The Midnight Circus

By: Jane Yolen

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Midnight Circus - and watch your step. The dark imaginings of fantasy icon Jane Yole… read more

Similar categories in Jane Yolen's The Midnight Circus book and Jane Yolen's The Midnight Circus

  • fairy tales
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
Cover of The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

24. The Wolf in the Whale

By: Jordanna Max Brodsky

4.12

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

A sweeping tale of clashing cultures, warring gods, and forbidden love: In 1000 AD, a young Inuit s… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Spirit upon spirit curled one within the other like the spirals of a shell."

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god."

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?"

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?"

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

25. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

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  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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26. A History of Fear

By: Luke Dumas

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devi… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Two Tribes

By: Emily Bowen Cohen

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In her poignant debut graphic novel inspired by her own life, Emily Bowen Cohen embraces the comple… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
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28. Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

By: Kelly Barnhill

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Author Kelly Barnhill has written a collection of stories, teeming with uncanny characters whose li… read more

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  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I will catch you. I will claim you. I will love you to bits."

-Kelly Barnhill, Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

"To be human is to lie, after all. Our minds tell lies to our hearts and our hearts tell lies to our souls."

-Kelly Barnhill, Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

"Lost, yes, but there was a freedom in being lost. There was a freedom in abandonment too, if you thought about it right."

-Kelly Barnhill, Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

"He feels a needle in his heart, and he sees her wince. Is it the same needle? he wonders. Is it the same thread, pulling at my heart and her heart? "

-Kelly Barnhill, Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

Cover of Universal Monsters: Dracula by James Tynion IV

29. Universal Monsters: Dracula

By: James Tynion IV

3.96

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH creators James Tynion IV (W0RLDTR33, Something is Killing the Children) and… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Edenville by Sam Rebelein

30. Edenville

By: Sam Rebelein

3.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Small Kingdoms & Other Stories by Charlaine Harris

31. Small Kingdoms & Other Stories

By: Charlaine Harris

4.06

Format: 178 pages, ebook

A new collection of linked short stories from Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling a… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

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The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

3.98

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Noah Medlock

3.72

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Peter S. Beagle

3.78

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GennaRose Nethercott

3.96

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Stephanie Garber

3.98

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Erin Morgenstern

3.98

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Rachel Gillig

4.30

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