6 best-selling gothic books like The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

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The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.16

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul. Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark …

If you liked the gothic plot in The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater , here is a list of 6 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 Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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 Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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 Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

5. 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 Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fae
"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)

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

6. 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 Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fae
"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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7. A Fragile Enchantment

By: Allison Saft

3.53

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical … read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Fragile Enchantment book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • historical
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"You're like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer."

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

"it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!"

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

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8. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. A Letter to the Luminous Deep

By: Sylvie Cathrall

3.69

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Dive into the curious correspondence of Sylvie Cathrall’s delightful debut novel, A Letter to the L… read more

Similar categories in Sylvie Cathrall's A Letter to the Luminous Deep book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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10. The City of Stardust

By: Georgia Summers

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods an… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Summers's The City of Stardust book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

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12. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

Cover of Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1) by Christina Baehr

13. Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1)

By: Christina Baehr

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

As a Victorian clergyman’s daughter, Edith Worms has seen everything — until a mythical salamander … read more

Similar categories in Christina Baehr's Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1) book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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14. Lady Avely's Guide to Truth and Magic (Matronly Misadventures #1)

By: Rosalie Oaks

4.13

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

A Regency widow shouldn’t be hunting spectres all night. Lady Judith Avely’s magical gift for d… read more

Similar categories in Rosalie Oaks's Lady Avely's Guide to Truth and Magic (Matronly Misadventures #1) book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Silence was often the best interrogation technique; something she had learned as a mother."

-Rosalie Oaks, Lady Avely's Guide to Truth and Magic (Matronly Misadventures #1)

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15. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

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16. The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • gothic
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

17. The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.16

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul. Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark … read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fae
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

18. 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 Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

19. The Spellshop

By: Sarah Beth Durst

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Spellshop book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"She was lonely, and she wanted someone to love. She made me out of love, and the empire destroyed her for it."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"There was something so very beautiful about a notebook without a single note in it. It felt like touching pure potential."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"I hope you know what you're doing" Caz said as he returned. "I absolutely do not know what I'm doing. I thought that was clear?"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

Cover of The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2) by Megan Bannen

20. The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2)

By: Megan Bannen

4.15

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy comes a heartwarming fantasy with a best frien… read more

Similar categories in Megan Bannen's The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2) book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1) by India Holton

21. The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)

By: India Holton

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-co… read more

Similar categories in India Holton's The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1) book and Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

20 must-read fiction books like The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

T. Kingfisher

4.32

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21 must-read fiction books like The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Transform Your Habits

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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T. Kingfisher

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