5 best-selling fantasy books like Why The Moon Travels by Oein DeBharduin

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Why The Moon Travels

By: Oein DeBharduin

4.34

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Why the moon travels is a haunting collection of twenty tales rooted in the oral tradition of the I…

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1. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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2. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • mythology
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

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3. Miss Julie

By: David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) by H. Rider Haggard

4. King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.79

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publ… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

5. Dinosaurs On Other Planets

By: Danielle McLaughlin

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. Solar Bones

By: Mike McCormack

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

the Angelus bell ringing out over its villages and townlands, over the fields and hills and bogs in… read more

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7. Herland

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more

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8. Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more

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9. The Coroner's Daughter

By: Andrew Hughes

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of th… read more

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10. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Ann Jacobs

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more

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11. Instructions for a Heatwave

By: Maggie O'Farrell

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richl… read more

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12. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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13. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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14. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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15. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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16. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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17. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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18. That Old Country Music

By: Kevin Barry

3.90

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), m… read more

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  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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19. Actress

By: Anne Enright

3.44

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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20. Why The Moon Travels

By: Oein DeBharduin

4.34

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Why the moon travels is a haunting collection of twenty tales rooted in the oral tradition of the I… read more

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  • folklore
  • college
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • mythology
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21. This Hostel Life

By: Melatu Uche Okorie

3.99

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Melatu Uche Okorie tells stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of wo… read more

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  • college
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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22. Homesickness

By: Colin Barrett

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more

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  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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23. Ruth & Pen

By: Emilie Pine

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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24. Savage Her Reply

By: Deirdre Sullivan

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan's hypnotic prose. A retelling of… read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember."

-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

"Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my a…"

-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

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25. Collective Amnesia

By: Koleka Putuma

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices mark… read more

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26. 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

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  • folklore
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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27. Notes To Self

By: Emilie Pine

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"He triat ser feliç. Aquesta felicitat no és perfecta ni exempta de dolor. A dins hi porta un dol. Però justament per això és més intensa."

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"I like that I have ten things on the go, all at once. I like that I'm always planning for the next thing. I like that I bring a high energy to my life, that I see it as a challenge. I like that my fa…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"I am fearful and hopeful and shameful. I worry that I am empty, or that I am full of the wrong things. I worry that I am disappearing, eroding, failing. I do not know what to do with all these feelin…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"For three decades I have lived within a silence that declares periods too embarrassing, too unwanted, too female to talk about out loud. I have done this for so long that I almost no longer notice it…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

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28. Seaborne

By: Nuala O'Connor

3.81

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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29. Unsettled

By: Rosaleen McDonagh

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rosaleen McDonagh writes fearlessly about a diverse experience of being Irish. Unsettled explores r… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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30. Washing Up

By: Derek Mahon

2.58

Format: None pages, None

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31. The M Pages

By: Colette Bryce

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The reader might be justified in thinking that the M in the title of Colette Bryce's new poetry col… read more

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