12 best-selling fantasy books like Girls Who Slay Monsters: Daring Tales of Ireland’s Forgotten Goddesses by Ellen Ryan

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Girls Who Slay Monsters: Daring Tales of Ireland’s Forgotten Goddesses

By: Ellen Ryan

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

WINNER KPMG Book of the Year – Children’s Books Ireland Awards Unsung stories from ancient Irish…

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Cover of The Mother Goose Diaries (The Land of Stories #Companion) by Chris Colfer

1. The Mother Goose Diaries (The Land of Stories #Companion)

By: Chris Colfer

4.15

Format: 122 pages, Hardcover

In this companion book to the Land of Stories series from New York Times bestselling author Chris C… read more

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  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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2. The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille

By: Máirtín Ó Cadhain , Alan Titley

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dustis consistently ranked as the mos… read more

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  • fantasy
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction

3. Missing: Missing Without Trace in Ireland

By: None

3.80

Format: 654 pages, Paperback

Examines the cases of Ireland's women and children who have vanished in sinister and mysterious cir… read more

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4. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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5. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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6. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. Wingbearer (Wingbearer, #1)

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A young girl must stop a threat to her magical world in this epic graphic novel from New York Times… read more

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  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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8. Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling

By: Emer McLysaght

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled. But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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9. The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac: The official magical companion to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books

By: J.K. Rowling

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The only official companion to the seven spellbinding novels about the Boy Who Lived, fully illustr… read more

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  • fantasy
  • childrens
  • fiction
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10. 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

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  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"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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11. Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

3.96

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

A TALE FOR EVERYONE WHO’S EVER FALLEN FOR THE VILLAIN… When her whole life collapsed, Rae still… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Is my mother right?"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"I love you as a knife loves a throat,"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"An anti-hero was just a villain with good PR"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"Key shrugged. “If you ask me, she’s too good for him."

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

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12. Jay's Gay Agenda

By: Jason June

3.52

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

There's one thing Jay Collier knows for sure—he's a statistical anomaly as the only out gay kid in … read more

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  • fiction
"I was the Willy Wonka of slip-ups"

-Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda

"Why did the city's most notable attraction have to be so "bonery?"

-Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda

"When most of the football players had left the closet, it was safe enough to pick my material."

-Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda

"My whole body wanted him, my entire soul too, and it hit me that an item on the Gay Agenda always should have been to find Albert. To find the guy who could set my spirit and sexuality on fire all at…"

-Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda

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13. The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)

By: Shauna Lawless

4.54

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Children of Gods and Fighting Men, The Words of Kings an… read more

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  • mythology
  • ireland
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here by Frances Macken

14. You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here

By: Frances Macken

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'This atmospheric debut looks like a rural Irish coming-of-age novel, but it’s cleverer, darker, mo… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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15. Orfeia

By: Joanne M. Harris

3.76

Format: 153 pages, ebook

So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, … read more

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  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"While her mother struggled with grief, Disy was coming to terms with death in a way she could control."

-Joanne M. Harris, Orfeia

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16. Girls Who Slay Monsters: Daring Tales of Ireland’s Forgotten Goddesses

By: Ellen Ryan

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

WINNER KPMG Book of the Year – Children’s Books Ireland Awards Unsung stories from ancient Irish… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Ryan's Girls Who Slay Monsters: Daring Tales of Ireland’s Forgotten Goddesses book and Ellen Ryan's Girls Who Slay Monsters: Daring Tales of Ireland’s Forgotten Goddesses

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • mythology
Cover of The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris

17. The Moonlight Market

By: Joanne Harris

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
" Love never ends--- but it changes. In some cases, it grows like a tree, stronger and more fruitful. In others, it changes nature, like chrysalis to butterfly. "

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"And, at that, picking up his parcel of books, Spider began to walk purposefully down the road, a river of light at his ragged heels, his spindly shadow beside him."

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"He was close to her now, close enough to smell her scent, which was like bluebells in the rain, and the aroma of a forest in spring, and the peppery sweetness of petrichor."

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"There's daylight names and midnight names. Daylight names are safe enough. A spider brings good luck before midnight, but bad luck after. And you look to me like the kind of young man who needs good …"

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

Cover of Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature by Manchán Magan

18. Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature

By: Manchán Magan

4.68

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

'In Irish there are so many great rain words and magic words and highly specific natural words (suc… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • childrens
Cover of With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden

19. With Love, Grief and Fury

By: Salena Godden

4.35

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet; grief poems brimming with… read more

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20. The Maid and the Crocodile

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start a revolution. In the magic-soaked capital … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

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4.22

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