20 best-selling fiction books like Hex by Jenni Fagan

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Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor…

"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

If you liked the fiction plot in Hex by Jenni Fagan , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. Foster

By: Claire Keegan

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more

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2. I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more

Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • feminism
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

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3. Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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4. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • adult
  • fiction
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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5. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • adult
  • fiction
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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6. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • novella
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
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7. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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8. The Last Witch of Scotland

By: Philip Paris

3.95

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more

Similar categories in Philip Paris's The Last Witch of Scotland book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • feminism
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. Now She is Witch

By: Kirsty Logan

3.54

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden... From the snowy winter… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Logan's Now She is Witch book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
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10. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • feminism
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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11. Hare House

By: Sally Hinchcliffe

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hinchcliffe's Hare House book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

Cover of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie

12. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Mackenzie's For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • feminism
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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13. The Fair Botanists

By: Sara Sheridan

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Fair Botanists book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

Similar categories in Jenni Fagan's Hex book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • feminism
  • novella
  • short stories
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

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15. Three Fires

By: Denise Mina

3.73

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Three Fires book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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16. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • adult
  • fiction
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17. Hear No Evil

By: Sarah Smith

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the burgeoning industrial city of Glasgow in 1817 Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witne… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we surviv… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

19. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
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20. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • adult
  • fiction
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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21. Burnt Offerings

By: Danielle Devlin

3.91

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

How far would you go to save yourself when the truth can't set you free? Scotland, 1589. Bess… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Devlin's Burnt Offerings book and Jenni Fagan's Hex

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Claire Keegan

4.18

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4.05

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