15 best-selling fantasy books like Familiar Magic by Kathryn Amonett

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Familiar Magic

By: Kathryn Amonett

4.42

Format: 167 pages, ebook

Malick and Helen are recovering from their last showdown with the residue made by their old coven. …

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1. Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more

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2. Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789-2007

By: Carter V. Findley

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernityreveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries o… read more

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3. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

By: Mark Dunn

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South C… read more

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4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: None pages,

Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more

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5. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry n… read more

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"When she’d met Orquidea Montoya, she saw a whisper of a girl who wanted to become a scream."

-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

"People think they know about misfortune and bad luck. But there was being unlucky-like when you tripped over your shoelaces or dropped a five-dollar bill in the subway or ran into your ex when you we…"

-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

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6. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

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7. Magpie

By: Elizabeth Day

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in … read more

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"She watches him walk around the room, naked apart from those silly flip-flops he's put on because his feet feel the cold. She marvels at his lack of self-consciousness. He has a good body: tall and b…"

-Elizabeth Day, Magpie

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8. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more

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  • fantasy
"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

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9. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

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"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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10. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more

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"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

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11. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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12. How to Be Eaten

By: Maria Adelmann

3.60

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in… read more

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  • fantasy
"But something changes after tragedy,"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"Morals create a labyrinth of rules geared toward blaming the victim"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"What if, for some of us, moving on involves finding good in the bad? Or being thankful for how we changed? That doesn't mean we wished it to happen."

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"Maybe just don't leave the house at all", Gretel pipes in. "Maybe stay home". "But isn't that where accidents happen?" says Ashlee. "So lock all of the doors", says Ruby. "Doesn't always help", says …"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

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13. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

By: Bolu Babalola

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more

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"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

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14. Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

By: Jarod K. Anderson

4.36

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

This poetry collection celebrates the impossible truths of the natural world and the magic that hid… read more

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"There's an endless autumn in me, scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke."

-Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

"SIT WITH ME I’m not trying to write a tailored suit. I’m trying to write boot socks, warm from the dryer. There’s an endless autumn in me, scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke. I write for the we…"

-Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

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15. Little Weirds

By: Jenny Slate

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more

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"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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16. Sisters of Night and Fog

By: Erika Robuck

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family’s wishes, Virginia dec… read more

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17. Last Night in Montreal

By: Emily St. John Mandel

3.73

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adol… read more

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"She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"It was never very easy to reach her, like loving someone who was rarely in the same room"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas; someone has to remember them"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

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18. A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Khavari

3.51

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, STEMinist adventure. Debut author … read more

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19. The Bone Orchard

By: Sara A. Mueller

3.53

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confin… read more

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20. Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more

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"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

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21. The Old Woman with the Knife

By: Gu Byeong-mo

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the tw… read more

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22. When Women Were Dragons

By: Kelly Barnhill

3.85

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transfo… read more

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"The dragons did not go away."

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"The work of storytelling requires a person to remain in a state of brutal vulnerability and punishing empathy. We feel everything. It tears us apart. We could not do this work without people in our l…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"There's very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang onto what we love. And that's it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to contr…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of th…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

Cover of Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1) by Darcie Little Badger

23. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.00

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more

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"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

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24. The Art of Prophecy (War Arts, #1)

By: Wesley Chu

4.08

Format: 533 pages, Hardcover

An epic fantasy ode to martial arts and magic—the story of a spoiled hero, an exacting grandmaster,… read more

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"Because she was here on a diplomatic mission, she decided to be gentle. She had learned from experience that murder was a terrible way to start a relationship."

-Wesley Chu, The Art of Prophecy (War Arts, #1)

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25. How to Read Now

By: Elaine Castillo

4.03

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more

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"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

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26. The Herbwitch's Apprentice (Witches of Olderea, #1)

By: Ireen Chau

4.14

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

This edition contains 27 original illustrations by the author! In the kingdom of Olderea, dabbli… read more

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27. A History of Wild Places

By: Shea Ernshaw

3.93

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, … read more

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"Because love is madness and blindness and deception."

-Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

"...and I wonder if the things we keep from one another will break us apart. I wonder if the things we don’t say are worse than the lies we do. Like the illness, they will rot us from the inside out."

-Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

"No matter where you go, there are cracks in the plaster, nails coming loose, you just have to decide where you want to piece yourself back together. Where the ground feels sturdiest beneath your feet."

-Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

"I crave things I've forgetten how to get. An old life, maybe. That's what it really is: a need for something I've lost long ago. A life that's good and decent and void of the bone-breaking pain that …"

-Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

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28. Da Vinci's Cat

By: Catherine Gilbert Murdock

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Two unlikely friends—Federico, in sixteenth-century Rome, and Bee, in present-day New Jersey—are li… read more

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29. Familiar Magic

By: Kathryn Amonett

4.42

Format: 167 pages, ebook

Malick and Helen are recovering from their last showdown with the residue made by their old coven. … read more

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30. The Bog Wife

By: Kay Chronister

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more

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31. Against the Blue

By: Julia McConnell

4.83

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

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