13 must-read short stories books like The Fourth Island by Sarah Tolmie

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The Fourth Island

By: Sarah Tolmie

3.54

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Dark, mournful, and beautiful, Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island is a moving and unforgettable story…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Fourth Island by Sarah Tolmie , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Devil You Know

By: K.J. Parker

3.93

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

also appears in the collection The Father of Lies The greatest philosopher of all time is offeri… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's The Devil You Know book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Incarnations

By: Susan Barker

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Who are you? You must be wondering. I am your soulmate, your old friend, and I have come back to th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Barker's The Incarnations book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy

3. The Shape of My Name

By: Nino Cipri

3.82

Format: None pages, ebook

The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourse… read more

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4. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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5. Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

3.52

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Feed Them Silence book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. 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 Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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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7. The Quicksilver Court (Rooks and Ruin, #2)

By: Melissa Caruso

4.21

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

The Quicksilver Court continues the wildly original epic fantasy series bursting with intrigue and … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Caruso's The Quicksilver Court (Rooks and Ruin, #2) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. 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

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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10. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. 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

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. Arboreality

By: Rebecca Campbell

4.06

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. Song of the Huntress

By: Lucy Holland

3.76

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, fem… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Holland's Song of the Huntress book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

By: Neon Yang

3.99

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The Protector is dead. For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image … read more

Similar categories in Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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15. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.21

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more

Similar categories in Moses Ose Utomi's The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk

16. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • short stories
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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18. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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19. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

By: Zen Cho

3.63

Format: 176 pages, ebook

Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial … read more

Similar categories in Zen Cho's The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Nobody talks about it. It’s not that kind of war."

-Zen Cho, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

"You cannot stay rich in times like these without eating sin."

-Zen Cho, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

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20. High Times in the Low Parliament

By: Kelly Robson

3.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Kelly Robson is back with fairies, scribes, and many many kisses in High Times in the Low Parliamen… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Robson's High Times in the Low Parliament book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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22. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • ireland
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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23. The Splinter in the Sky

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) about a … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Splinter in the Sky book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. Buried Deep and Other Stories

By: Naomi Novik

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Novik's Buried Deep and Other Stories book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

25. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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26. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Fourth Island by Sarah Tolmie

27. The Fourth Island

By: Sarah Tolmie

3.54

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Dark, mournful, and beautiful, Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island is a moving and unforgettable story… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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28. A Dark and Drowning Tide

By: Allison Saft

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in t… read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Dark and Drowning Tide book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2) by Ruthanna Emrys

29. Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

By: Ruthanna Emrys

4.03

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruthanna Emrys’ Innsmouth Legacy, which began with Winter Tide and continues with Deep Roots, confr… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanna Emrys's Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Innsmouth women might deck themselves in gold for a man's pleasure, recite passages of lore to show off their learning, or cultivate an interest in stories about fishing expeditions. But my mother ha…"

-Ruthanna Emrys, Deep Roots (The Innsmouth Legacy, #2)

Cover of The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) by Andrea Stewart

30. The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1)

By: Andrea Stewart

3.70

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The series is set in a world ravaged by ancient magic, where precious gemstones bestow magical abil… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Stewart's The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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31. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Model Home book and Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island

  • adult
  • fiction

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3.93

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Theodora Goss

3.54

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Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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