12 Best fiction books like La Fille feu follet by Ursula K. Le Guin

Cover of La Fille feu follet by Ursula K. Le Guin

La Fille feu follet

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.96

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Capturées par des hommes de la Couronne, deux fillettes devenues esclaves découvrent le monde et le…

"But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty...But knowing your limits and going to them isn't arrogance. It's greatness of spirit."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, La Fille feu follet

"But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty...But knowing your limits and going to them isn't arrogance. It's greatness of spirit."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, La Fille feu follet

"...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, La Fille feu follet

"...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, La Fille feu follet

If you liked the fiction plot in La Fille feu follet by Ursula K. Le Guin , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1) by Margaret Killjoy

1. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1) book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
"Always afraid, never a coward"

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

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2. Cicatriz

By: Sara Mesa

3.48

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Sonia conoce a Knut en un foro literario de internet y, a pesar de los setecientos kilómetros que l… read more

Similar categories in Sara Mesa's Cicatriz book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • womens
  • fiction
"No, no me veo feliz, ni siquiera junto a ti. Ni siquiera en la más optimista de mis ensoñaciones me veo teniendo contigo una relación feliz, provechosa para ambos, sólida, cotidiana; burguesa, en sum…"

-Sara Mesa, Cicatriz

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3. Silences

By: Tillie Olsen , Shelley Fisher Fishkin

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from … read more

Similar categories in Tillie Olsen's Silences book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • feminism
  • womens
  • essays
"It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life."

-Tillie Olsen, Silences

"More than in any human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity."

-Tillie Olsen, Silences

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4. The Female Man

By: Joanna Russ

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cover Artist: Louise Sullivan It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten esse… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Russ's The Female Man book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • science fiction
  • feminism
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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5. Meditations in an Emergency

By: Frank O'Hara

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclai… read more

Similar categories in Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • poetry
  • fiction
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6. Katie

By: Michael McDowell

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

KATIE KILLED FOR KICKS AND CASH Ever so nimble at bashing heads with her little hammer, Katie Slape… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Katie book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • fiction
Cover of The Unknown Masterpiece by Arthur C. Danto, Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard

7. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

Similar categories in Arthur C. Danto's The Unknown Masterpiece book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • short stories
  • fiction

8. The Auctioneer

By: Ed Gorman , Joan Samson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as the… read more

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9. The Wild Girls

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Winner of: Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Book Foundation Newly… read more

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10. Ofert a les mans, el paradís crema

By: Pol Guasch

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Efervescència i una novel·la sobre l’amistat en un món abocat al col·lapse. La Rita viu a la Co… read more

Similar categories in Pol Guasch's Ofert a les mans, el paradís crema book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • fiction
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11. Carcoma

By: Layla Martínez

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more

Similar categories in Layla Martínez's Carcoma book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • feminism
  • fiction
"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."

-Layla Martínez, Carcoma

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12. Tesis sobre una domesticación

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.11

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

La escritora y actriz trans cordobesa, Camila Sosa Villada, acaba de publicar su nueva novela, la s… read more

Similar categories in Camila Sosa Villada's Tesis sobre una domesticación book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • fiction
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13. Grass

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.52

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s live… read more

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"Frágiles ramas que tiemblan en las postrimerías del largo invierno. Dentro albergan la energía de una vida nueva que pronto brotará y abrirá grietas en la corteza La tierra despertará de su hibernaci…"

-Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass

Cover of Géante, histoire de celle qui parcourut le monde à la recherche de la liberté by Jean-Christophe Deveney

14. Géante, histoire de celle qui parcourut le monde à la recherche de la liberté

By: Jean-Christophe Deveney

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Un gigantesque conte initiatique et féministe qui parle avec finesse de différence, d'amour, de lib… read more

Similar categories in Jean-Christophe Deveney's Géante, histoire de celle qui parcourut le monde à la recherche de la liberté book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • feminism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Perros

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

3.89

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

En el centro de esta historia hay una mujer que nunca consideró traer un perro a casa. Pero su mari… read more

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16. Chilco

By: Daniela Catrileo

4.07

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"El paisaje que eres siempre será el paisaje que cargas". Chilco, una novela de amor, rebeldía y am… read more

Similar categories in Daniela Catrileo's Chilco book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • fiction
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17. Sweet Harmony

By: Claire North

3.78

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K, a… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's Sweet Harmony book and Ursula K. Le Guin's La Fille feu follet

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Sur les flancs de l'Ida (Pallas, #2) by Marine Carteron

18. Sur les flancs de l'Ida (Pallas, #2)

By: Marine Carteron

4.43

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Athéna a échoué. Sa tentative pour récupérer le Palladion et retrouver enfin Pallas s’est terminée … read more

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19. Lucha contra el capacitismo. Anarquismo y capacitismo

By: Itxi Guerra

4.32

Format: 64 pages, None

El sistema capacitista es aquel que discrimina, violenta y asesina a las personas discapacitadas po… read more

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20. Pallas - tome 3: Sous l'oeil de l'Olympe

By: Marine Carteron

4.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Athéna tisse sa toile. Avec patience. Précision. Et une détermination que rien ne semble pouvoir éb… read more

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Cover of D'Or et d'Oreillers by Mayalen Goust

21. D'Or et d'Oreillers

By: Mayalen Goust

4.12

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Lord Handerson, un riche héritier, a conçu un test pour choisir au mieux sa future épouse. Chaque c… read more

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Mónica Ojeda

3.86

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Salomé Esper

3.89

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4.25

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