7 Best historical books like The Thorns Remain by J.J.A. Harwood

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The Thorns Remain

By: J.J.A. Harwood

3.45

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A dance with the fae will change everything 1919. In a highland village forgotten by the world, …

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Cover of Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) by Hannah Kaner

1. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kaner's Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But gods love martyrs."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

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2. What Monstrous Gods

By: Rosamund Hodge

3.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting t… read more

Similar categories in Rosamund Hodge's What Monstrous Gods book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When we get there, I whisper silently to Ruven, don’t leave me. “Never,"

-Rosamund Hodge, What Monstrous Gods

Cover of A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid

3. 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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • fae
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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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4. 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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • 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 The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

5. 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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • 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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6. 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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fiction
  • 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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7. 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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • 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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8. 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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • historical
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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9. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (Faebound, #1) book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fae
Cover of The City of Stardust by Georgia  Summers

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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Voyage of the Damned

By: Frances White

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The TikTok sensation from the UK has come to North America! This special first edition hardcover w… read more

Similar categories in Frances White's Voyage of the Damned book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"As if the restrictive shell of a body is more important than the infinite possibilities of a mind."

-Frances White, Voyage of the Damned

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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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

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13. Upon a Frosted Star

By: M.A. Kuzniar

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When the snow falls, she will be free… The invitations always arrive the same way – without warn… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Kuzniar's Upon a Frosted Star book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"...all I want, all I could ever need, is you."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"...magic does not belong solely to the young."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"A life was so fragile, spun from magic impossible to understand..."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"For their was no finer family than the one you had chosen yourself."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

Cover of The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

14. 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 J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fae
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15. The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm #1)

By: Kathryn Purdie

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Where fairy tales come to life with dark, deadly twists... "Tell me again, Grandmère, the story … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Purdie's The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm #1) book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1) by Hannah F. Whitten

16. The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

By: Hannah F. Whitten

3.79

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in th… read more

Similar categories in Hannah F. Whitten's The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1) book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A moment, then Gabe sighed, as if finally resigning himself to what was about to happen. "Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the …"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"The air around him almost seemed to glimmer, gold dust in the dark. Moonlight made him more beautiful, yes, but in the same way that darkness emphasized a flame. He didn't belong in it; Bastian Arcen…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the legs." They both started at him. Then Gabe shrugged. "That's actually pretty good advice."…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"This is what I saw, in the reflections of the tomb." She whispered it almost to herself, broken-voiced. "It's what the goddess dreamed, but I thought I could prevent it. I thought you would choose th…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

Cover of The Thorns Remain by J.J.A. Harwood

17. The Thorns Remain

By: J.J.A. Harwood

3.45

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A dance with the fae will change everything 1919. In a highland village forgotten by the world, … read more

Similar categories in J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fae
Cover of The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2) by Hannah F. Whitten

18. The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2)

By: Hannah F. Whitten

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten's lush, romantic epic… read more

Similar categories in Hannah F. Whitten's The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2) book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of After the Forest by Kell Woods

19. After the Forest

By: Kell Woods

3.81

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurt… read more

Similar categories in Kell Woods's After the Forest book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And old enough to know that womenfolk have little enough power of their own. That is why they must have their charms and their tricks. Their books and their ink and blood. Their eyes, their smiles, t…"

-Kell Woods, After the Forest

Cover of Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1) by Analeigh Sbrana

20. Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1)

By: Analeigh Sbrana

3.35

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings t… read more

Similar categories in Analeigh Sbrana's Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1) book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fae
Cover of The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield

21. The Valkyrie

By: Kate Heartfield

3.46

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the All-Father, chooser of the slain. But now she too has f… read more

Similar categories in Kate Heartfield's The Valkyrie book and J.J.A. Harwood's The Thorns Remain

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

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Hannah Kaner

3.90

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3.32

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Ava Reid

3.78

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S.T. Gibson

3.66

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Hafsah Faizal

3.57

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Sophie Kim

4.12

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