6 must-read fantasy books like Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women by Kate Forsyth

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Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women

By: Kate Forsyth

4.38

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

For many young women, the only fairy-tales they know are the ones that have been retold by Walt Dis…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women by Kate Forsyth , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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2. The Song From Somewhere Else

By: A.F. Harrold , Levi Pinfold

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Frank doesn't know how to feel when Nick Underbridge rescues her from bullies one afternoon. No one… read more

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3. A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)

By: Gene Stratton-Porter

3.80

Format: None pages,

Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observatio… read more

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4. Rivers of London: Body Work

By: Ben Aaronovitch , Andrew Cartmel , Lee Sullivan , Luis Guerrero

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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5. Prickle Moon

By: Juliet Marillier

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

Prickle Moonis a collection of Juliet Marillier's best short fiction. It contains eleven previously… read more

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6. Out of Africa

By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Out of Africais Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand… read more

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7. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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8. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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9. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • fiction
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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11. The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more

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  • childrens
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells

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12. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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13. Delicates (Sheets, #2)

By: Brenna Thummler

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following the events of the bestselling graphic novel Sheets, Delicates brings Brenna Thummler’s be… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Everyone has ghosts. I think we all need to learn that there's no shame in letting them out."

-Brenna Thummler, Delicates (Sheets, #2)

"Humans are delicate too. The teensiest mistake can ruin them, even if you do everything else right. Just because mistakes seem small and insignificant doesn’t mean they are."

-Brenna Thummler, Delicates (Sheets, #2)

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14. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
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15. We Are Wolves

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches … read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Books are treasure."

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

"How do you thank someone for saving your sister?"

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

"I don't want to stop because when the songs and rhymes and stories and all the German words are gone, I will be gone. Liesl Anna Wolf will be no more."

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

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16. Wynd, Book One: The Flight of the Prince

By: James Tynion IV

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The team of award-winning superstars James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas present the first graphic… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • magic
  • young adult
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17. The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op… read more

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  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
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18. Little Mushroom: Judgment Day

By: Shisi

4.59

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

"Until the day humanity falls." In the year 2020, Earth's magnetic poles disappeared and hum… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. After the Forest

By: Kell Woods

3.81

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurt… read more

Similar categories in Kell Woods's After the Forest book and Kate Forsyth's Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"And old enough to know that womenfolk have little enough power of their own. That is why they must have their charms and their tricks. Their books and their ink and blood. Their eyes, their smiles, t…"

-Kell Woods, After the Forest

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20. Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women

By: Kate Forsyth

4.38

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

For many young women, the only fairy-tales they know are the ones that have been retold by Walt Dis… read more

Similar categories in Kate Forsyth's Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women book and Kate Forsyth's Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • childrens
  • magic
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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21. Evacuation Road

By: H.M. Waugh

4.13

Format: None pages, None

Eva is far from home when everything goes wrong. And then it gets even worse. Her evacuation … read more

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  • young adult

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