16 must-read fantasy books like Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness by Juliet Marillier

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Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

By: Juliet Marillier

3.91

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Walk into a fairy tale world that’s not quite what you might expect. Lara’s life of lonely drudg…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness by Juliet Marillier , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Lampje

By: Annet Schaap

4.41

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Dit is een verhaal over de zee. Over geheimzinnige zeewezens en woeste piraten. Over het Zwarte Hu… read more

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  • fantasy
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2. Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Holly Black

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries! Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and ind… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale, #3) by Liz Braswell

3. As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale, #3)

By: Liz Braswell

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast? Belle is a lot of things: smart, resourceful, restless. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Liz Braswell's As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale, #3) book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
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4. A Whole New World (A Twisted Tale #1)

By: Liz Braswell

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to a new YA series that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways. Each book… read more

Similar categories in Liz Braswell's A Whole New World (A Twisted Tale #1) book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
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5. Ironside (Modern Faerie Tales, #3)

By: Holly Black

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malev… read more

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  • fantasy

6. De Vrouwe van Myrdin

By: Cathinca Van Sprundel

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Cymbran is de sluier tussen de mens en de Andere Wereld vrij dun. Geesten, elfen en hun duistere… read more

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7. How Should One Read a Book?

By: Virginia Woolf

3.27

Format: None pages,

In 1926 Virginia Woolf wrote an essay entitled, "How Should One Read a Book?" to deliver as a lectu… read more

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8. Bitter Greens

By: Kate Forsyth

4.50

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

A Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical Fiction The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel… read more

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9. Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales #2)

By: Holly Black

4.16

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has … read more

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10. Cursed (Gilded, #2)

By: Marissa Meyer

4.01

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

Before the Endless Moon, when the Erlking means to capture one of the seven gods and make a wish to… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
"Here in Gravenstone, there was little comfort, little joy, only her sadness creeping toward her on stealthy toes. A sadness that had begun to manifest in bitterness."

-Marissa Meyer, Cursed (Gilded, #2)

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11. De eerlijke vinder

By: Lize Spit

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more

Similar categories in Lize Spit's De eerlijke vinder book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • short stories
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12. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

By: Charlie Mackesy

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important l… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

"I'm so small,"

-Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

"I'm so small."

-Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

"Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated."

-Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

"The greatest illusion," said the mole, "is that life should be perfect."

-Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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13. Lanny

By: Max Porter

4.06

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more

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  • fantasy
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."

-Max Porter, Lanny

"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."

-Max Porter, Lanny

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14. I Am an Island

By: Tamsin Calidas

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more

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"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

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15. Films die nergens draaien

By: Yorick Goldewijk

4.45

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

Op dezelfde dag dat Cato ter wereld kwam, heeft haar moeder die verlaten. Cato's vader is sindsdien… read more

Similar categories in Yorick Goldewijk's Films die nergens draaien book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • fantasy
"Dat ze iemand blij kon maken met zoiets als een glas limonade bracht haar een gevoel van heel simpel geluk. Het soort geluk dat nergens van afhing, dat er gewoon altijd wel was en je af en toe terloo…"

-Yorick Goldewijk, Films die nergens draaien

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16. Sisters of the Lost Marsh

By: Lucy Strange

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From award winning author Lucy Strange comes a thrilling story of six sisters who must fight agains… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Strange's Sisters of the Lost Marsh book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • fantasy
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17. 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

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
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18. Amalia

By: Claudia de Breij

3.44

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Ons eerste echte gesprek voeren we in de werkkamer van haar moeder. Zij op de donkerblauwe bank, ik… read more

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19. De Gifgave (De Gifgenoten, #1)

By: Rani De Vadder

3.80

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

"WIJ ZIJN ZOALS EEN SLANG DIE STEEDS VAN HUID VERANDERT. IN DEZE WERELD VAN GIF EN BEENDEREN IS NIE… read more

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  • fantasy
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20. My Contrary Mary (Mary, #1)

By: Cynthia Hand

3.91

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and . .… read more

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  • fantasy
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21. The Corset

By: Laura Purcell

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Corset book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

"Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

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22. Het kan ook nooit normaal

By: Lieke Hester

4.05

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Een zakkenroller aanhouden, een lichaam zoeken in een donkere woning, een slechtnieuwsgesprek voere… read more

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23. Flowerheart

By: Catherine Bakewell

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Clara’s magic has always been wild. But it’s never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poiso… read more

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  • fantasy
"The goal was not to subdue one's anger or shame, but rather to embrace it. Control was not the objective; freedom was. (Chapter 16, page 220)"

-Catherine Bakewell, Flowerheart

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24. Wat jij niet ziet

By: M.J. Arlidge

3.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Emma Forbes is verliefd. Sinds ze ex-soldaat Mark ontmoette, kan ze aan niemand anders denken. Mark… read more

Similar categories in M.J. Arlidge's Wat jij niet ziet book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • short stories
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25. Deze autist ging naar Japan: en wat er toen gebeurde zal je verbazen

By: Bianca Toeps

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Toen Bianca Toeps in 2008 voor het eerst in Japan was, wist ze het al: ‘Hier ga ik ooit wonen.’ Sin… read more

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26. Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2)

By: T.L. Huchu

3.92

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

“Alluring, shadowy Edinburgh with its hints of sophisticated academic magic will draw you in, but i… read more

Similar categories in T.L. Huchu's Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2) book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • fantasy
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27. Koning van het Sintelwoud

By: Jen Minkman

3.41

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

De tweelingzussen Vasilisa en Morana wonen diep in het bos vlak bij de rand van het mysterieuze Sin… read more

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  • fantasy
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28. Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

By: Juliet Marillier

3.91

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Walk into a fairy tale world that’s not quite what you might expect. Lara’s life of lonely drudg… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness book and Juliet Marillier's Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness

  • fairy tales
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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29. Wie ik gisteren was

By: Pamela Sharon

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Als Yara te horen krijgt dat ze lijdt aan CVS (chronisch vermoeidheidssyndroom), weigert ze zich da… read more

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30. Verover me (FC Livius, #2)

By: Stefanie Van Mol

3.71

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mauro van Veen is tweede spits bij FC Livius ‘85. Als Oliver, zijn beste vriend en teamgenoot, gebl… read more

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31. Vergeef me (FC Livius, #3)

By: Stefanie Van Mol

3.65

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Als Yara Smet op een benefietavond FC Livius-keeper Louis de Jong tegenkomt, valt ze meteen voor zi… read more

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