19 must-read fantasy books like Amok (Absolution, #1) by Anna Tan

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Amok (Absolution, #1)

By: Anna Tan

4.13

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

What is faith, except hope in desperation? All Putera Mikal wants is to gain the Amok Strength, …

If you liked the fantasy plot in Amok (Absolution, #1) by Anna Tan , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Beauty Is a Wound

By: Eka Kurniawan , Annie Tucker

4.05

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and roman… read more

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  • fantasy
"You don't need to belong to one another in order to love one another."

-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

"If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven."

-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

"Semua perempuan itu pelacur, sebab seorang istri baik-baik pun menjual kemaluannya demi mas kawin dan uang belanja, atau cinta jika itu ada."

-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

"It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck."

-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

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2. Salahudin Ayubi: Penakluk Jerusalem

By: Abdul Latip Talib

4.47

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Novel Sejarah Islam, Salahudin-Penakluk Jerusalem adalah fakta berkenaan pahlawan Islam yang digara… read more

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3. Spirits Abroad

By: Zen Cho

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more

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  • fantasy
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4. The Glass Palace

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the sto… read more

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5. Redshirts

By: John Scalzi

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more

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  • fantasy
"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

6. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

By: Sonny Liew

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is a biography showcasing the life and work of Chan Hock Chye, a … read more

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7. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

By: Zoulfa Katouh

4.50

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had h… read more

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  • fantasy
"Bury me before I bury you" I did."

-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

"There are enough people hurting you,"

-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

"He bites his lip. “Please take of yourself."

-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

"I’ll make it as soon as I’m done with this."

-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

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8. 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

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  • fantasy
"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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9. 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

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  • fantasy
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10. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

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  • fantasy
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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11. The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

4.01

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more

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  • fantasy
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

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12. Nirnama

By: Hilal Asyraf

4.68

Format: 698 pages, Paperback

Seorang pendekar tanpa nama telah menjadi buah mulut ramai. Sikapnya yang ringan tulang membantu ma… read more

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  • fantasy
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13. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • fantasy
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14. Kaikeyi

By: Vaishnavi Patel

4.19

Format: 478 pages, Hardcover

“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more

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  • fantasy
"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."

-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

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15. Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

By: Emiko Jean

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a … read more

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"A heart divided cannot stand."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

"Follow your heart...You lead with your heart."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

"You will tell me who said this to you and I will take care of it."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

"How could I have expected to stay in your golden orbit forever? I should have known. We’ve been playing a losing game the whole time."

-Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After, #2)

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16. The Daughters of Madurai

By: Rajasree Variyar

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Daughters of Madurai is both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the s… read more

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17. Kiki's Delivery Service (Kiki's Delivery Service, #1)

By: Eiko Kadono

4.15

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Nostalgic fans of the Miyazaki film and newcomers alike--soar into the modern classic about a young… read more

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  • fantasy
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18. Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gripping new psychological thriller from the author of Little Creeping Things—can a grieving girl… read more

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"I was gonna come back for you', I lied."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"Tyler is watching me like I'm his favorite Netflix show."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"No coffee? Sorry, the mountain-top Starbucks is fresh out."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"This is going to be so much worse than that', I saw like an archvillian."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

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19. The Great Reclamation

By: Rachel Heng

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more

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  • fantasy
"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

Cover of These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1) by Isabel Sterling

20. These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

By: Isabel Sterling

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Hannah's a witch, but not the kind you're thinking of. She's the real deal, an Elemental with the p… read more

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  • fantasy
"I never want this moment to end"

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

"But the feeling of victory doesn't last. Every second that's filled with anything other than grief leaves me unbearably guilty."

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

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21. The Electrical Menagerie (The Celestial Isles, #1)

By: Mollie E. Reeder

4.58

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of Caraval and The Greatest Showman: a quest for fame and fortune in a stardust-powered em… read more

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  • christian
  • fantasy
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22. 912 Batu Road

By: Viji Krishnamoorthy

3.96

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The Iyers' and the Tans tranquil lives are shattered with the Japanese invasion of Malaya, and an u… read more

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23. The House of Little Sisters

By: Eva Wong Nava

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

It's August of 1931 in Singapore, sixteen-year-old Lim Mei Mei (Ah Mei) arrives at the home of Emin… read more

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  • fantasy
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24. Amok (Absolution, #1)

By: Anna Tan

4.13

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

What is faith, except hope in desperation? All Putera Mikal wants is to gain the Amok Strength, … read more

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  • christian
  • christian fantasy
  • fantasy
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25. Inkling: A Short Story Compilation

By: N.F. Afrina

4.33

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A hot chocolate maker travels to a town with no money. A girl sins and expects a thunder to strike … read more

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26. The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope

By: Kirsten Han

4.59

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Singapore is small, a complex country full of contradictions, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. O… read more

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27. Time to Heal

By: Norhafsah Hamid

4.16

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

Hassan sat down next to his mom and dad as he stared vacantly at the grave. He felt numb. His other… read more

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28. The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020

By: Zhui Ning Chang

4.38

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

The Malaysian Writers Society presents a decade of quality short stories in The Best of Malaysian S… read more

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29. The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories

By: Paul GnanaSelvam

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories is a collection of 18 slice-of-life short stories featuring n… read more

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30. Magic Hunters: The Journey Begins

By: Jill Williamson

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Vella

Hunter, the son of the huntsman who nearly killed Snow White, is tired of the shame that labels his… read more

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  • fantasy
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31. Rose Petals and Snowflakes: Snow White and Rose Red meets Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Fairy Tale #1)

By: Kendra E. Ardnek

4.09

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

After their father's death, and thanks to their older half-brother's wanderlust, two sisters find t… read more

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  • fantasy

21 Best fiction books like These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1) by Isabel Sterling

Transform Your Habits

Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.08

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