5 Best witches books like The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1) by Gregory Maguire

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The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1)

By: Gregory Maguire

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreig…

"The most evident life was cats, for cats refused to comply with instructions in the best of times, and they saw to their own safety faster than the ordinary human narcissist could blink."

-Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1)

"Death comes as a shock even when it is inevitable. The world reasserts itself. It says, I keep going whether you do or not. I am indifferent to your need for constancy, says the world, and my indifference is shown in my own constancy."

-Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1)

If you liked the witches plot in The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1) by Gregory Maguire , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Secret of the Andes (Puffin Newberry Library)

By: Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his … read more

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  • fiction
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2. Tool of War (Ship Breaker, #3)

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This third book in a major series by a bestselling science fiction author, Printz Award winner, and… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

By: Cory Silverberg , Fiona Smyth

4.47

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender … read more

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"Has anyone ever told you that you can't judge a book by its cover? It means you can't tell what's inside a book if all you know is what it looks like on the outside. Bodies are kind of like books. Ea…"

-Cory Silverberg, Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

"Words are important. Like all words, the words we use to describe ourselves and our relationships can be used by others in ways that help us and in ways that hurt us. It helps when we get to choose w…"

-Cory Silverberg, Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

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4. Maggie & Me

By: Damian Barr

4.12

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Winner of the Stonewall Award and The Sunday Times Memoir of the Yea… read more

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  • audiobook
"There's no place like home. No place safer. No place scarier."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"Maggie, tou made it possible -but not probably for me to be the man I am now."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"Reading is an act of radical empathy: turning the page instead of turning away."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"The second time I try to kill a man I'm fourteen. Killing a man seems a very grown-up thing to do - like writing in Biro."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

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5. The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 1

By: Neil Gaiman

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller! The Sandman is the universally lauded masterwork following Morpheus, Lo… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Vera

By: Stacy Schiff

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Bos… read more

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7. Sword of Avalon (Avalon #7)

By: Diana L. Paxson

3.63

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Fiery visions, a lost king, and a forthcoming destiny. A boy raised in secret after traitors kill h… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1)

By: Django Wexler

4.80

Format: None pages,

Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel--but whe… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Virgin's Daughter (Tudor Legacy #1)

By: Laura Andersen

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since the death of her brother, William, Elizabeth I has ruled England. She's made the necessary al… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Boleyn King (Boleyn Trilogy, #1)

By: Laura Andersen

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

The Boleyn Kingis the first novel in an enthralling new trilogy. Reimagining history in sumptuous d… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction

11. The Magic of Oz (Oz, #13)

By: L. Frank Baum

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this witty and imaginative tale, the "Royal Historian of Oz," L. Frank Baum, takes young readers… read more

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12. Around the World with Auntie Mame (Auntie Mame #2)

By: Patrick Dennis , Edward Everett Tanner III

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Encore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mameis back and the reviews are… read more

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13. Six Degrees of Separation

By: John Guare

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners. read more

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14. Inside Job

By: Connie Willis

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

Professional debunker Rob, proprietor of the Jaundiced Eye magazine, considers himself incredibly l… read more

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15. Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon (Tangled #1)

By: Leila Howland

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Rapunzel is not your typical princess. For one thing, she has returned to her kingdom after eightee… read more

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16. 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

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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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17. Medea

By: Eilish Quin

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek… read more

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  • retellings
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
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18. The Weaver and the Witch Queen

By: Genevieve Gornichec

3.88

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to… read more

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  • retellings
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. Lilith

By: Nikki Marmery

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North, Lilith is the story of the first woman, who w… read more

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  • retellings
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it."

-Nikki Marmery, Lilith

"In time we came to the point that most closely concerned [the women]: that all life is precious, but Creation is a power to be used sparingly, not relentlessly, without care or concern for their heal…"

-Nikki Marmery, Lilith

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20. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.57

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more

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  • retellings
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We all have a animal double, Englishman."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

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21. The Tinker & The Witch

By: G.J. Daily

4.37

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Come sit by the hearth and enjoy a pint and well packed pipe with Andrew, a seventeen-year-old tink… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
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22. The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch

By: Mary McMyne

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put h… read more

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  • retellings
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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23. Odd Partners: An Anthology

By: Anne Perry

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Throughout the annals of fiction, there have been many celebrated detective teams: Sherlock Holmes … read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

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  • retellings
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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25. 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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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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 The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1) by Gregory Maguire

26. The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1)

By: Gregory Maguire

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreig… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • retellings
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"The most evident life was cats, for cats refused to comply with instructions in the best of times, and they saw to their own safety faster than the ordinary human narcissist could blink."

-Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1)

"Death comes as a shock even when it is inevitable. The world reasserts itself. It says, I keep going whether you do or not. I am indifferent to your need for constancy, says the world, and my indiffe…"

-Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor (Another Day, #1)

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27. Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind considers the age-old … read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Undead AF

By: MaryJanice Davidson

3.76

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Have you been wondering what's been going on with Betsy the Vampire Queen after she defeated the an… read more

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  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (Wastelands, #3) by John Joseph Adams

29. Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (Wastelands, #3)

By: John Joseph Adams

3.72

Format: 645 pages, Kindle Edition

The brilliant new post-apocalyptic collection by master anthologist John Joseph Adams, for the firs… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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30. 1666

By: Lora Chilton

4.25

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

A Fictional Recounting of the Survival Story of Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia  The story has been… read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

By: Deborah Harkness

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly ant… read more

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  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Kümmere dich um deine eignen Wünsche und Bedürfnisse." S. 222"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

"Sehnsucht spornt mich an, Furcht bremst mich ... Was für ein Weg, gerade oder krumm, wird mir Frieden geben und mich erlösen?" S 414 f"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

"Du musst ihr [der Dunkelheit] die Stirn bieten ... Schau ihr ins Auge, ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken. Die Dunkelheit ist von einer verschlagenen Tücke und du darfst nicht zulassen, dass sie deine Sch…"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

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