18 Best fiction books like Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur

Cover of Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur

Folklorn

By: Angela Mi Young Hur

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding lov…

"To reject is easy; to be abandoned, terrifying."

-Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn

"To reject is easy; to be abandoned, terrifying."

-Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn

If you liked the fiction plot in Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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

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 Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

2. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

3. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

4. Light from Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

4.06

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more

Similar categories in Ryka Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Lindsey Stirling?"

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

Cover of Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

5. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White (Song of the Last Kingdom, #2) by Amélie Wen Zhao

6. Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White (Song of the Last Kingdom, #2)

By: Amélie Wen Zhao

3.92

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

The epic sequel to the book Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, is a fast-paced, riveting YA fantasy … read more

Similar categories in Amélie Wen Zhao's Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White (Song of the Last Kingdom, #2) book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • asian literature
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

7. 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

Similar categories in Genevieve Gornichec's The Weaver and the Witch Queen book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • mythology
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

8. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • mythology
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's VenCo book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

Cover of The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

10. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

Cover of Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1) by Tade Thompson

11. Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

By: Tade Thompson

3.75

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by… read more

Similar categories in Tade Thompson's Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1) book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • speculative fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What’s a quantum extrapolator?’ I ask. ‘You are,"

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"It is never a good idea to cause pain to angels."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"...even the Gujarat-bot dreams of electric sheep."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"The Yoruba say ‘o d’oju ala’ when someone dies. I will see you in dreams."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj

12. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You Is the Sea book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Apology by Jimin Han

13. The Apology

By: Jimin Han

3.47

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This sweeping intergenerational saga tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriar… read more

Similar categories in Jimin Han's The Apology book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1) by Nnedi Okorafor

14. Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Niger, West Africa, 2074 It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great c… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1) book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)

Cover of Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica   Hernandez

15. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

By: Jessica Hernandez

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

Cover of We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) by Cadwell Turnbull

16. We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In We Are the Crisis—the second book in the Convergence Saga from award-winning author Cadwell Turn… read more

Similar categories in Cadwell Turnbull's We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur

17. Folklorn

By: Angela Mi Young Hur

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding lov… read more

Similar categories in Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"To reject is easy; to be abandoned, terrifying."

-Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn

Cover of My Name Is Iris by Brando Skyhorse

18. My Name Is Iris

By: Brando Skyhorse

3.37

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more

Similar categories in Brando Skyhorse's My Name Is Iris book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi

19. Masquerade

By: O.O. Sangoyomi

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more

Similar categories in O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • mythology
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power by Devon  Price

20. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

By: Devon Price

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that com… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • mental health
Cover of Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans by Jenny Wang

21. Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

By: Jenny Wang

4.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to rad… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Wang's Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans book and Angela Mi Young Hur's Folklorn

  • asian literature
  • mental health
"When someone becomes angry with you, it is not your job to make them feel better; it is their job to learn skills to hold space for that anger and make themselves feel better. It is also their respon…"

-Jenny Wang, Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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4.24

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The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

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4.06

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4.17

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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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Robert Jackson Bennett

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Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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