19 Top fantasy books like Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott

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Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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2. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

3. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • gothic
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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4. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

Similar categories in Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

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5. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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 GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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8. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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10. 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 GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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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11. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

Similar categories in Park Seolyeon's A Magical Girl Retires book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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12. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

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13. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more

Similar categories in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • gothic
  • retellings
  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. The Absinthe Underground

By: Jamie Pacton

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Moulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy! For Sybil Cla… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Pacton's The Absinthe Underground book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) by Charlotte Bond

15. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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 GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • gothic
  • retellings
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

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18. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • gothic
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. Summers End (A Shady Hollow Mystery, #5)

By: Juneau Black

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favorite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen. It's lat… read more

Similar categories in Juneau Black's Summers End (A Shady Hollow Mystery, #5) book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The House Where Death Lives

By: Alex Brown

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly ch… read more

Similar categories in Alex Brown's The House Where Death Lives book and GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

20 best-selling fiction books like Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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S.T. Gibson

3.66

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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

Peter S. Beagle

3.78

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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James Logan

4.02

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Alexandra Rowland

4.07

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