The Witch's Heart
By: Genevieve Gornichec
4.05
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the g…
Want to Read $ 12.99"I can’t believe,"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"I can’t believe,"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"We're odd. She's odd. She fits right in, does she not?"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"We're odd. She's odd. She fits right in, does she not?"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
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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
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
2. Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
By: Sue Lynn Tan
4.10
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from th… read more
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- romance
- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"Never again would I be content to remain in the shadows."-Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
"Everyone has their own troubles; some lay them bare while others hide them better."-Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
"Some scars are carved into our bones - a part of who we are, shaping what we become."-Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
"I do care," he ground out. "despite my sense, my judgement and honor - I cannot help but care."-Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
3. 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
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- romance
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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
4. The Witch's Heart
By: Genevieve Gornichec
4.05
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the g… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Genevieve Gornichec's The Witch's Heart book and Genevieve Gornichec's The Witch's Heart
- romance
- retellings
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- witches
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"I can’t believe,"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"We're odd. She's odd. She fits right in, does she not?"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"They say a witch used to live in these woods, a long long time ago,"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest."-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
5. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
6. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
By: Heather Fawcett
4.02
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
7. 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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- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"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
8. Starling House
By: Alix E. Harrow
3.83
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"Survival is a hard habit to break."-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
9. Lilith
By: Nikki Marmery
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North, Lilith is the story of the first woman, who w… read more
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- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it."-Nikki Marmery, Lilith
"In time we came to the point that most closely concerned [the women]: that all life is precious, but Creation is a power to be used sparingly, not relentlessly, without care or concern for their heal…"-Nikki Marmery, Lilith
10. 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
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- romance
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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)
11. Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
By: Travis Baldree
4.12
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.The battl… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
12. 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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- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"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
13. Kaikeyi
By: Vaishnavi Patel
4.19
Format: 478 pages, Hardcover
“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more
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- retellings
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi
14. 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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- retellings
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
"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
15. Nettle & Bone
By: T. Kingfisher
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more
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- fiction
- witches
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
16. Atalanta
By: Jennifer Saint
3.78
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne , a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta… read more
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- romance
- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"I made a bargain with him: if he let me have the mountains and my girls, then I'd keep out of Hera's way. But the main thing I wanted was to live untouched by men. I wasn't going to find myself in my…"-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta
"I missed the spread of the sky above me. Sometimes as I lay awake, I yearned so powerfully for freedom; for the dark silhouette of the Argo, blotting out the stars behind it; the promise of another j…"-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta
"Standing in the shadows, gathering my resolve. I'd been among too many people, living according to their rules for too long. It was clouding my vision, gnawing away at my confidence and certainty, ma…"-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta
"I despised my father, of course I did. The thought of presenting myself to him, of him thinking that my deeds could reflect on him was repulsive, that he thought what I would do would be a substitute…"-Jennifer Saint, Atalanta
17. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
By: Shannon Chakraborty
4.27
Format: 483 pages, Hardcover
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
18. Clytemnestra
By: Costanza Casati
4.25
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious vi… read more
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- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"She will bow to no one. Her destiny will be what she wants it to be."-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
"It is unwise to let a man who isn't king sit on a throne for too long."-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
"As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her better. Let her be hated forever."-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
19. Ariadne
By: Jennifer Saint
3.80
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listeni… read more
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- romance
- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"the world was on fire, and theseus was a shaded green pool."-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
"We might only have a mortal lifetime, but it will belong to us and no one else."-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
"We might only have a mortal lifetime, but it will belong to us, and no one else."-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
"My mother's private constellation of shame intermingled with love and despair no longer."-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
20. Medusa's Sisters
By: Lauren J.A. Bear
4.18
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. The end of t… read more
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- retellings
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"To have choices is to have power. Most women have neither."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"When I choose myself, do not be afraid if my choice looks different than yours"-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"She thought love a perfect pain. Come then. Break me, bend me. Hurt me flawless."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"Find delight in your pain, she said, and rejoice in your longing. If it still hurts, you are alive, you are alive."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
21. A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
By: Rebecca Ross
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t set foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainlan… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Our hands can steal, or they can give. They can harm, or they can comfort. They can wound and kill, or they can heal and save. Which will you choose for your hands Torin?"-Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
"I am but a verse inspired by your chorus, and I will follow you until the end, when the isle takes my bones and my name is nothing more than a remembrance on a headstone, next to yours."-Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
