9 best-selling fiction books like FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES by Kevin Crossley-Holland

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FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Muchachas pobres, princesas, enanos, gigantes, espíritus..., todo tipo de seres, reales y fantástic…

If you liked the fiction plot in FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES by Kevin Crossley-Holland , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

By: Roger Lancelyn Green , Arthur Hall

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw… read more

Similar categories in Roger Lancelyn Green's The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) book and Kevin Crossley-Holland's FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

  • fantasy
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?"

-Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

"Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again."

-Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

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2. Storm in the Village (Chronicles of Fairacre, #3)

By: Miss Read

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Trouble brews in the tiny country village of Fairacre when it is discovered that Farmer Miller’s Hu… read more

Similar categories in Miss Read's Storm in the Village (Chronicles of Fairacre, #3) book and Kevin Crossley-Holland's FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

  • fiction
  • british literature
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3. The Howards of Caxley (The Caxley Chronicles, #2)

By: Miss Read

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A chronicle story of the enduring serenity and strength of an English country town as it adjusts to… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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4. Catherine, Called Birdy

By: Karen Cushman

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry… read more

Similar categories in Karen Cushman's Catherine, Called Birdy book and Kevin Crossley-Holland's FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

  • childrens
  • fiction

5. The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #3)

By: Jeff Kinney

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Let's face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that t… read more

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6. The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)

By: Rick Riordan

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone … read more

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7. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

Similar categories in W.W. Jacobs's The Monkey's Paw book and Kevin Crossley-Holland's FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

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8. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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9. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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10. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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11. 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

Similar categories in Max Porter's Lanny book and Kevin Crossley-Holland's FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • british literature
"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

Cover of Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer

12. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

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13. Salt and Skin

By: Eliza Henry-Jones

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

‘Until recently, there had been four of them. Unspeaking, the three remaining Managans lugged their… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Henry-Jones's Salt and Skin book and Kevin Crossley-Holland's FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

  • fiction
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14. In the Clearing

By: J.P. Pomare

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

The novel behind the hit TV series The Clearing released globally on Disney+ and Hulu. Amy has… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

By: Katharine Hayhoe

4.31

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe… read more

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16. FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Muchachas pobres, princesas, enanos, gigantes, espíritus..., todo tipo de seres, reales y fantástic… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Crossley-Holland's FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES book and Kevin Crossley-Holland's FOLKTALES OF THE BRITISH ISLES

  • childrens
  • british literature
  • short stories
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • folk tales
  • fantasy
  • mythology

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