5 best-selling magical realism books like Garden of Earthly Bodies by Sally Oliver

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Garden of Earthly Bodies

By: Sally Oliver

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, ident…

"This was the saddest part of life – not being able to tell someone in time how valuable they were."

-Sally Oliver, Garden of Earthly Bodies

"This was the saddest part of life – not being able to tell someone in time how valuable they were."

-Sally Oliver, Garden of Earthly Bodies

If you liked the magical realism plot in Garden of Earthly Bodies by Sally Oliver , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

1. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.78

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are co… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Everything the Darkness Eats book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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2. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

3. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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4. 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 Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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5. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

Cover of Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

6. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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7. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Girls Against God book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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8. 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 Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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10. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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11. His Black Tongue

By: Mitchell Lüthi

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is no plague in Enfaire… Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-feari… read more

Similar categories in Mitchell Lüthi's His Black Tongue book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore

12. The Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more

Similar categories in A.K. Blakemore's The Glutton book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Nobody, Somebody, Anybody by Kelly McClorey

13. Nobody, Somebody, Anybody

By: Kelly McClorey

3.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving and darkly comic debut novel about an anxious young woman who administers a self-made “pla… read more

Similar categories in Kelly McClorey's Nobody, Somebody, Anybody book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn  Harlan

14. Fruiting Bodies: Stories

By: Kathryn Harlan

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Harlan's Fruiting Bodies: Stories book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

15. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium by Helen Humphreys

16. Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium

By: Helen Humphreys

3.90

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need… read more

Similar categories in Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • audiobook
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17. The Shame

By: Makenna Goodman

3.60

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down… read more

Similar categories in Makenna Goodman's The Shame book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Reception

By: Kenzie Jennings

3.74

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

While her rehab counselor’s advice replays in her mind, Ansley Boone takes on the role of dutiful b… read more

Similar categories in Kenzie Jennings's Reception book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Dinner on Monster Island: Essays by Tania De Rozario

19. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

By: Tania De Rozario

4.18

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The… read more

Similar categories in Tania De Rozario's Dinner on Monster Island: Essays book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • horror
"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"There is nothing like a horror film to reveal the cultural anxieties of one’s time and place. And if horror has taught me anything, it is that nothing has been as enduringly terrifying across time an…"

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

Cover of Garden of Earthly Bodies by Sally Oliver

20. Garden of Earthly Bodies

By: Sally Oliver

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, ident… read more

Similar categories in Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies book and Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"This was the saddest part of life – not being able to tell someone in time how valuable they were."

-Sally Oliver, Garden of Earthly Bodies

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Transform Your Habits

Everything the Darkness Eats

Eric LaRocca

2.78

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

T. Kingfisher

3.89

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Transform Your Habits

Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

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