6 Best fiction books like Chinese Myths and Fantasies (Oxford Myths and Legends) by Cyril Birch

Cover of Chinese Myths and Fantasies (Oxford Myths and Legends) by Cyril Birch

Chinese Myths and Fantasies (Oxford Myths and Legends)

By: Cyril Birch

3.67

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into …

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Cover of Legend (Legend, #1) by Marie Lu

1. Legend (Legend, #1)

By: Marie Lu

4.15

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B0052RDJAO. What was once the west… read more

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"My name is June Iparis."

-Marie Lu, Legend (Legend, #1)

"The boy who walks in the light"

-Marie Lu, Legend (Legend, #1)

"I ALMOST KISSED THE GIRL LAST NIGHT."

-Marie Lu, Legend (Legend, #1)

"He looks like an angel, if a broken one."

-Marie Lu, Legend (Legend, #1)

2. Confessions

By: Kanae Minato , Stephen Snyder

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge. After an engagement that ended in t… read more

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3. No Longer Human

By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene

3.99

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more

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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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4. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

5. Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

By: Anne Rice

4.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal li… read more

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6. Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.16

Format: 464 pages, ebook

The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great batt… read more

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"Kindness is never a mistake. Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

"Kindness is never a mistake," said the Elder Steward. "Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

"I’m here to follow you.' His eyes were bright, his lips smiling, his hair gold in the shifting light from the fire. Will said, 'Of course you are."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

"When the past is forgotten, then it can return. Only those who remember have the chance to stave it off. For the dark is never truly gone; it only waits for the world to forget, so that it may rise a…"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

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7. These Violent Delights

By: Micah Nemerever

3.97

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately dr… read more

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"There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,"

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"In the end, there wasn’t any difference between trusting someone and underestimating them."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

Cover of Chinese Myths and Fantasies (Oxford Myths and Legends) by Cyril Birch

8. Chinese Myths and Fantasies (Oxford Myths and Legends)

By: Cyril Birch

3.67

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into … read more

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