18 Best fiction books like A Painted Winter (Pictish Conspiracy #1) by H. Barnard

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A Painted Winter (Pictish Conspiracy #1)

By: H. Barnard

3.98

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In the misty highlands of fourth century Scotland, two Pictish brothers conspire with the Ancient P…

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1. Dying For Christmas

By: Tammy Cohen

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

I am missing. Held captive by a blue-eyed stranger. To mark the twelve days of Christmas, he gives … read more

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2. The Way of Kings, Part 1 (The Stormlight Archive #1.1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

SPEAK AGAIN THE ANCIENT OATHS, LIFE BEFORE DEATH. STRENGTH BEFORE WEAKNESS. JOURNEY BEFORE DESTINAT… read more

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3. The Death of Jane Lawrence

By: Caitlin Starling

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's The Death of Jane Lawrence book and H. Barnard's A Painted Winter (Pictish Conspiracy #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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5. Stone Blind

By: Natalie Haynes

3.82

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A fresh take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. They will fear you and flee y… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"Then look."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?"

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

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6. Midnight in Everwood

By: M.A. Kuzniar

3.56

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There’s nothing Marietta Stelle loves more than ballet, but after Christmas, her dreams will be ove… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Magic is without reason."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood

"It is in the stars that we shall meet again."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood

"Ballet resides in your bones; it courses through your blood. For a dancer, it is the very essence of our identity, stripped down to its rawest, most intrinsic parts; you cannot leave it behind no mor…"

-M.A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood

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7. Medusa

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Min… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I'm a half-finished map and I'm always trying to plot my points, and I won't have anyone do it for me."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"Sometimes, not even folding yourself into the smallest, littlest shape is enough. So you might as well stay the size you're supposed to be"

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

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8. The Wake-Up Call

By: Beth O'Leary

3.57

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Two hotel receptionists--and arch-rivals--find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to ret… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Cloisters

By: Katy Hays

3.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

On the wheel of fortune, who will emerge on top... and who will die? When Ann Stilwell arrives i… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Life after parents is like a clean slate. [Rachel Mondray]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"...time made it possible to revisit even the hardest places. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"Era difícil no notar el peso del pasado a nuestro alrededor. Al fin de cuentas, ¿los museos no eran en realidad mausoleos?"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

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10. Elektra

By: Jennifer Saint

3.68

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeanc… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"The wine tasted like dirt to me. I could shriek out my warnings, claw at my flesh, hurl my goblet right into Paris' face, but they would still carry on as though I did not exist."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me…"

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

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11. Sistersong

By: Lucy Holland

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

My sister’s heart broke on the river—and the river took it and bore it away. In the ancient king… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"The only names that matter are the ones we take for ourselves."

-Lucy Holland, Sistersong

"Remember. This is your story, no matter what history will claim or what songs people sing. And it’s no one’s place to stop you from telling it."

-Lucy Holland, Sistersong

Cover of The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2) by Elodie Harper

12. The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)

By: Elodie Harper

4.22

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious... Amara has escaped her life as … read more

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2) book and H. Barnard's A Painted Winter (Pictish Conspiracy #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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13. Pandora

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

3.67

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

London, 1799. Dora Blake, an aspiring jewelry artist, lives with her odious uncle atop her late par… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"but since when did gratitude mean the acceptance of rage?"

-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora

"It amazes him how much money rich people seem happy to waste on entertainment for one mere evening."

-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora

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14. Phaedra

By: Laura Shepperson

3.32

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Debut novelist Laura Shepperson offers a powerful feminist retelling of Phaedra and her unyielding … read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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15. Girl, Goddess, Queen

By: Bea Fitzgerald

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: … read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Gone is little girl. Kore. I am chaos bringer. Persephone."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"You once asked for the world, Persephone. Congratulations, you just created one."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"I was pretty, always pretty. It’s what they told me again and again until the very word came to mean pain. And still I went on, tearing and pulling and hurting until I was prettier still."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"An artist raised to slaughter. I want to hurt everyone involved in that decision. I would too, I think, if I could. Maybe I am too vengeful. But then I look at him laughing and I don't care. I'd do i…"

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

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16. Juniper & Thorn

By: Ava Reid

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper T… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It filled me with a terrible pity and guilt, so perfunctory it was as if I'd been made for it, a machine for dispensing grief."

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"If I have you it will be as a man has a woman, a husband his wife. Do you dream of Bogatyr Ivan when you kiss me? Do you wish I entered you while holding a wooden sword? I would not like any story to…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"The grandfather clock gonged three. Papa spoke a word that sounded like a spell, though I couldn't be sure. It was neither kind nor cruel. It was simply a wheel going into its grooves. All I knew the…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

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17. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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18. Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
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19. Careless

By: Kirsty Capes

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess f… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The House of Whispers

By: Anna Mazzola

3.64

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes the secrets of the past are more dangerous than the present... Rome, 1938. As the w… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Painted Winter (Pictish Conspiracy #1) by H. Barnard

21. A Painted Winter (Pictish Conspiracy #1)

By: H. Barnard

3.98

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In the misty highlands of fourth century Scotland, two Pictish brothers conspire with the Ancient P… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction

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