21 Best fantasy books like The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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The Beautiful Ones

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash o…

"I think she wanted nothing from me, nothing at all but to let her love me."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

"I think she wanted nothing from me," Hector added, "nothing at all but to let her love me."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • magic
  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"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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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

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • 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

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4. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry n… read more

Similar categories in Zoraida Córdova's The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • magical realism
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"When she’d met Orquidea Montoya, she saw a whisper of a girl who wanted to become a scream."

-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

"People think they know about misfortune and bad luck. But there was being unlucky-like when you tripped over your shoelaces or dropped a five-dollar bill in the subway or ran into your ex when you we…"

-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

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5. Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

3.90

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Cañas's Vampires of El Norte book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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6. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

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7. 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

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • 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)

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8. Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

By: Olivia Atwater

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea wh… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2) book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A faerie told me that true love's kiss could wake Miss Buckley," Effie told him. "I cannot think of any truer or more unconditional love than that of a dog."

-Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

"Lady Panovar made mention of her French maid about a dozen times last night," Mrs Sedgewick informed the staff tiredly. "Lady Culver ended the night in a fury. She has insisted that I should find her…"

-Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

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9. 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

Similar categories in Roshani Chokshi's The Last Tale of the Flower Bride book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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

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10. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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11. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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12. 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 Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • magic
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • 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

Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

13. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

By: Shannon Chakraborty

4.27

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. The Hacienda

By: Isabel Cañas

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

"Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them."

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

"Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle.…"

-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

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15. Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.09

Format: 304 pages, ebook

It's difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you're a young lady with only half a soul.… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1) book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"There is such a thing as evil in this world,"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"It may be true that you have only half a soul, Dora,"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"Every fish you throw back into the ocean is a triumph of the idea that human beings can be better. I do my best, every day, to throw at least one fish back into the ocean. I hope that you will join m…"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"I think that Elias has been angry now for so long that he is scared to let it go - I think he is scared that if would make him too complacent, and he might become all of those things which he so desp…"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

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16. Juniper & Thorn

By: Ava Reid

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper T… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Juniper & Thorn book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It filled me with a terrible pity and guilt, so perfunctory it was as if I'd been made for it, a machine for dispensing grief."

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"If I have you it will be as a man has a woman, a husband his wife. Do you dream of Bogatyr Ivan when you kiss me? Do you wish I entered you while holding a wooden sword? I would not like any story to…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"The grandfather clock gonged three. Papa spoke a word that sounded like a spell, though I couldn't be sure. It was neither kind nor cruel. It was simply a wheel going into its grooves. All I knew the…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

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17. What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

By: Isabel Ibañez

3.90

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Bue… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Ibañez's What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Is this it, Whit?"

-Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

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18. The Beautiful Ones

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash o… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"I think she wanted nothing from me, nothing at all but to let her love me."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

"I think she wanted nothing from me," Hector added, "nothing at all but to let her love me."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

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19. A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

By: Rebecca Ross

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t set foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainlan… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1) book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Our hands can steal, or they can give. They can harm, or they can comfort. They can wound and kill, or they can heal and save. Which will you choose for your hands Torin?"

-Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

"I am but a verse inspired by your chorus, and I will follow you until the end, when the isle takes my bones and my name is nothing more than a remembrance on a headstone, next to yours."

-Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

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20. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

By: Sangu Mandanna

4.11

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family… read more

Similar categories in Sangu Mandanna's The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"The thing is, being a witch is extraordinary,"

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"That was some excellent Mary Poppins shit right there."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"I can’t transform the world, Jamie. The world’s too big and too messy and too stubborn."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

"Trust is earned." "It is. But that’s only possible if someone’s willing to give you a chance."

-Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

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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

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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