8 must-read historical fiction books like The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Cover of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit…

"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

1. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

2. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

3. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

Similar categories in Shubnum Khan's The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

4. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

Cover of The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

5. The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

4.01

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Fox Wife book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

Cover of Marked by Magic (Tracking Trouble #1) by Lindsay Buroker

6. Marked by Magic (Tracking Trouble #1)

By: Lindsay Buroker

4.34

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Arwen Forester may be a socially awkward introvert, but she’s an expert tracker, archer, and forage… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Buroker's Marked by Magic (Tracking Trouble #1) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) by Hafsah Faizal

7. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

By: Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

8. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

9. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

Cover of The Art of Avoiding Your Werewolf (Wildwood, #1) by Lola Glass

11. The Art of Avoiding Your Werewolf (Wildwood, #1)

By: Lola Glass

3.95

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

I almost hooked up with a werewolf… but before we got to third base, he dragged me off to jail. … read more

Similar categories in Lola Glass's The Art of Avoiding Your Werewolf (Wildwood, #1) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
Cover of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

12. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Cover of The Art of Avoiding Your Alpha (Wildwood, #2) by Lola Glass

13. The Art of Avoiding Your Alpha (Wildwood, #2)

By: Lola Glass

4.00

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

My soulmate bought me a sugar cookie… and now, he's not going to let me go. He wants a mate bond… read more

Similar categories in Lola Glass's The Art of Avoiding Your Alpha (Wildwood, #2) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Lucky Son of a Gun (Demon Accords, #19) by John Conroe

14. Lucky Son of a Gun (Demon Accords, #19)

By: John Conroe

4.48

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Mack Sutton is a normal guy who just happens to attend a very abnormal school. In a college where t… read more

Similar categories in John Conroe's Lucky Son of a Gun (Demon Accords, #19) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Accidental Mystic (Midlife Melody #1) by Phoebe Ravencraft

15. Accidental Mystic (Midlife Melody #1)

By: Phoebe Ravencraft

4.20

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

She needed a fresh start. She wasn’t expecting it to be supernatural….Bethany Parker is falling apa… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Ravencraft's Accidental Mystic (Midlife Melody #1) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

16. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

Cover of House of Vampires and Flame (Shades of Ruin and Magic #1) by Meg Xuemei X

17. House of Vampires and Flame (Shades of Ruin and Magic #1)

By: Meg Xuemei X

4.19

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

The gods are dead. At least, that’s what everyone else seems to think. I, however, know the t… read more

Similar categories in Meg Xuemei X's House of Vampires and Flame (Shades of Ruin and Magic #1) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Code Yellow in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #5) by Linzi Day

18. Code Yellow in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #5)

By: Linzi Day

4.60

Format: 776 pages, Kindle Edition

In Gateway terminology, a "Code Yellow" signifies a missing person. King Troels plans to hide in Yg… read more

Similar categories in Linzi Day's Code Yellow in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #5) book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself by Haylock Jobson

19. Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself

By: Haylock Jobson

4.41

Format: 533 pages, Kindle Edition

A world abandoned by the gods, mystifying cosmic forces, unimaginable power for those willing to as… read more

Similar categories in Haylock Jobson's Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Cursed Son by Day Leitao

20. A Cursed Son

By: Day Leitao

4.04

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Romantic & sexy dreams link a false princess to a dangerous, disgraced fae prince in this fun, stea… read more

Similar categories in Day Leitao's A Cursed Son book and Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  • fantasy
  • fiction

21 must-read fiction books like The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Transform Your Habits

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

None

T. Kingfisher

None

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21 Top fiction books like The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

Transform Your Habits

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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