5 best-selling fantasy books like Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales by Jón Árnason

Cover of Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales by Jón Árnason

Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

By: Jón Árnason

3.63

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

English, Icelandic (translation)

If you liked the fantasy plot in Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales by Jón Árnason , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

1. Birdsong

By: Sebastian Faulks

4.32

Format: 632 pages,

Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong book and Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

  • classics
  • fiction
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2. The Poetic Edda

By: Anonymous , Lee M. Hollander

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

The Poetic Eddacomprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place … read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's The Poetic Edda book and Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

  • classics
  • mythology
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3. Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

3.70

Format: 186 pages,

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  • classics
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4. Cloud Atlas

By: David Mitchell

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas book and Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

  • fantasy
  • fiction

5. The Magician King (The Magicians, #2)

By: Lev Grossman

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon o… read more

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6. Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.72

Format: 272 pages,

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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7. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

By: Scott McCloud

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this … read more

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8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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9. The Sagas of Icelanders

By: Various , Bernard Scudder , Jane Smiley , Keneva Kunz , None , George Clark , None , None , None , None , None , Martin Regal

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literat… read more

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10. Independent People

By: Halldór Laxness , James Anderson Thompson

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

This magnificent novel--which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature--is at last… read more

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11. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1)

By: Douglas Adams

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Mass Market Paperback

What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum m… read more

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12. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

By: Melissa V. Harris-Perry

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger--these are among … read more

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13. Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.78

Format: 197 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is h… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4) book and Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"Where the hell did demons live, anyway?"

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Most of history is pretty appaling, when you look hard at it. Or even not very hard."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

14. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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15. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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  • fantasy
  • short stories
  • magic
  • fiction
"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

Cover of Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi

16. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

By: Garth Marenghi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more

Similar categories in Garth Marenghi's Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome book and Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • unfinished
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

Cover of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

17. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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18. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jeffs's Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain book and Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

  • short stories
  • mythology
  • folklore
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19. The Project

By: Courtney Summers

3.51

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The #1 Indie Next Pick and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award now in paperback with… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Summers's The Project book and Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

  • fiction
"There is no flaw in you"

-Courtney Summers, The Project

"There is no flaw in you."

-Courtney Summers, The Project

"You wanted the truth. Or are you afraid of it now?"

-Courtney Summers, The Project

"You don't have to be our worst case, to be a worthy case."

-Courtney Summers, The Project

Cover of Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life by James  Curtis

20. Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life

By: James Curtis

4.44

Format: 810 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis--a major biography, the first in more than … read more

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Cover of Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales by Jón Árnason

21. Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

By: Jón Árnason

3.63

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

English, Icelandic (translation) read more

Similar categories in Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales book and Jón Árnason's Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

  • fairy tales
  • classics
  • unfinished
  • magic
  • short stories
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • folk tales
  • fantasy
  • mythology

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4.32

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3.90

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Terry Pratchett

3.78

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4.03

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Peter S. Beagle

3.78

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Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

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4.00

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4.22

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