6 Top witches books like Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin

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Other Words for Smoke

By: Sarah Maria Griffin

3.80

Format: 352 pages, ebook

When the house at the end of the lane burned down, none of the townspeople knew what happened. A tr…

"A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat."

-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke

"A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat."

-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke

"When we talk about summer, we are not talking about time. A summer is a bright wound that splits the year open like a hinge and leaves you exposed for who you really are, in the heat and pause and stretch of it. A summer is an agreement whereby something happens between people, between us."

-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke

"When we talk about summer, we are not talking about time. A summer is a bright wound that splits the year open like a hinge and leaves you exposed for who you really are, in the heat and pause and stretch of it. A summer is an agreement whereby something happens between people, between us."

-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke

If you liked the witches plot in Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Wicked Like a Wildfire (Hibiscus Daughter, #1)

By: Lana Popović

4.23

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

All the women in Iris and Malina's family have the unique magical ability or "gleam" to manipulate … read more

Similar categories in Lana Popović's Wicked Like a Wildfire (Hibiscus Daughter, #1) book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

2. The Queens of Innis Lear

By: Tessa Gratton

3.69

Format: None pages, ebook

A kingdom at risk, a crown divided, a family drenched in blood. The erratic decisions of a prophecy… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Gratton's The Queens of Innis Lear book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

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3. Sawkill Girls

By: Claire Legrand

3.67

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep. … read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He'll follow you home and won't let you sleep"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

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4. 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 Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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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5. Star Eater

By: Kerstin Hall

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

All martyrdoms are difficult. Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way o… read more

Similar categories in Kerstin Hall's Star Eater book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • queer
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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7. Howl

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed Shaun David Hutchinson comes a gritty and raw portrayal of the oftentimes… read more

Similar categories in Shaun David Hutchinson's Howl book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. A Treason of Thorns

By: Laura E. Weymouth

3.44

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Violet Sterling has spent the last seven years in exile, longing to return to Burleigh House. One o… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Weymouth's A Treason of Thorns book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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9. All the Dead Lie Down

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • queer
Cover of Tadek and the Princess (Mahisti Dynasty, #1.5) by Alexandra Rowland

10. Tadek and the Princess (Mahisti Dynasty, #1.5)

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.64

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the critically-acclaimed fantasy novel A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON comes a sequel/s… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Tadek and the Princess (Mahisti Dynasty, #1.5) book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths #2)

By: Deirdre Sullivan

3.98

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

The utterly compelling and darkly magical sequel to award-winning author Deirdre Sullivan's PERFECT… read more

Similar categories in Deirdre Sullivan's Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths #2) book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"It will probably leave a scar. But so does everything."

-Deirdre Sullivan, Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths #2)

"There's an honesty and simplicity to Santa. He'd go down your chimney, but only with enthusiastic consent."

-Deirdre Sullivan, Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths #2)

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12. Perfectly Preventable Deaths

By: Deirdre Sullivan

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Everyone in Ballyfran has a secret, and that is what binds them together… Fifteen-year-old twins… read more

Similar categories in Deirdre Sullivan's Perfectly Preventable Deaths book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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13. The Diablo's Curse

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Diablo's Curse book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Every Exquisite Thing

By: Laura Steven

3.83

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensati… read more

Similar categories in Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You deserve to be loved."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"I think I was just born hungry."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"If there are 3 wolves inside of us, all of mine are encyclopaedias"

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

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15. Savage Her Reply

By: Deirdre Sullivan

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan's hypnotic prose. A retelling of… read more

Similar categories in Deirdre Sullivan's Savage Her Reply book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember."

-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

"Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my a…"

-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

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16. The Dark Beneath the Ice

By: Amelinda Bérubé

3.43

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Black Swan meets Paranormal Activity in this compelling ghost story about a former dancer whose gri… read more

Similar categories in Amelinda Bérubé's The Dark Beneath the Ice book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"I’m invisible. You can’t harass a ghost."

-Amelinda Bérubé, The Dark Beneath the Ice

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17. Blanca & Roja

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.76

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and grace… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Blanca & Roja book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The way you look at me, do you mean it?"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

"The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

"In the dark, my sister glowed, but in the dark, I was the dark itself. Blanca, bright and fair Blanca, was the moon and all its stars. I was just her background to shimmer against."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

"That I was a boy, but it was not as simple as me wanting to be called he. That I liked being called he and him. But that I would've liked being called she and her sometimes, too, if it didn't let eve…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

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18. Every Gift a Curse (All Our Hidden Gifts, #3)

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.29

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

A spellbinding supernatural teen drama and final book in the Gifts series from a New York Times bes… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's Every Gift a Curse (All Our Hidden Gifts, #3) book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • paranormal
  • queer
Cover of Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia

19. Now Entering Addamsville

By: Francesca Zappia

3.50

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Zora Novak has been framed. When someone burns down the home of the school janitor and he dies i… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Zappia's Now Entering Addamsville book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I'm too asexual for this."

-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville

"You can have people who call themselves your friends and you can still be alone."

-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville

"How could you convince people of the truth when they had already decided what version of the story they wanted to believe?"

-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville

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20. Extasia

By: Claire Legrand

3.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints … read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Extasia book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
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21. My Name is Monster

By: Katie Hale

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, M… read more

Similar categories in Katie Hale's My Name is Monster book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"…not speaking can sometimes be just as loud as saying words."

-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

"…it is easier to think about hating people than about wanting them."

-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

"I found that thinking was easier when there was someone to talk at."

-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

"I say my story starts here because endings are always a kind of beginning."

-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

22. 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 Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • witches
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin

23. Other Words for Smoke

By: Sarah Maria Griffin

3.80

Format: 352 pages, ebook

When the house at the end of the lane burned down, none of the townspeople knew what happened. A tr… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat."

-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke

"When we talk about summer, we are not talking about time. A summer is a bright wound that splits the year open like a hinge and leaves you exposed for who you really are, in the heat and pause and st…"

-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke

Cover of Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

24. Trouble the Saints

By: Alaya Dawn Johnson

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Undergroun… read more

Similar categories in Alaya Dawn Johnson's Trouble the Saints book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Dangerous Remedy (Battalion of the Dead, #1) by Kat Dunn

25. Dangerous Remedy (Battalion of the Dead, #1)

By: Kat Dunn

3.49

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Camille, a revolutionary's daughter, leads a band of outcasts – a runaway girl, a deserter, an aris… read more

Similar categories in Kat Dunn's Dangerous Remedy (Battalion of the Dead, #1) book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1) by Aliette de Bodard

26. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.85

Format: 122 pages, ebook

Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhe… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1) book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé

27. Here There Are Monsters

By: Amelinda Bérubé

3.33

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of codependent sisterhood, the struggle… read more

Similar categories in Amelinda Bérubé's Here There Are Monsters book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Last Seen Online (Gottie Writes, #1) by Lauren   James

28. Last Seen Online (Gottie Writes, #1)

By: Lauren James

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A contemporary YA murder mystery set in sun-drenched LA, for fans of Malibu Rising, We Were Liars a… read more

Similar categories in Lauren James's Last Seen Online (Gottie Writes, #1) book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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29. Lucy Undying

By: Kiersten White

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on h… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Lucy Undying book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of Through the Midnight Door by Katrina Monroe

30. Through the Midnight Door

By: Katrina Monroe

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

As emotional as it is haunting, Through the Midnight Door explores the sometimes-fragile bonds of s… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Monroe's Through the Midnight Door book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Beauty and Cruelty by Meredith Katz

31. Beauty and Cruelty

By: Meredith Katz

3.81

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Cruelty, once an evil fairy and now working in fast food, comes home one day to find the lazy, droo… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Katz's Beauty and Cruelty book and Sarah Maria Griffin's Other Words for Smoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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Claire Legrand

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4.17

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Kerstin Hall

3.52

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3.73

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