13 Best magic books like The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry

Cover of The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry

The Magician’s Daughter

By: H.G. Parry

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and m…

"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

If you liked the magic plot in The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

1. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

Cover of Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

2. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

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3. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

By: Hester Fox

3.36

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful sec… read more

Similar categories in Hester Fox's The Last Heir to Blackwood Library book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. 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 H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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

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5. 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 H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • 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

Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

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

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical
  • magic
  • 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)

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7. 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

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry

8. The Magician’s Daughter

By: H.G. Parry

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and m… read more

Similar categories in H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was …"

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream …"

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

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

9. 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 H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical
  • magic
  • 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)

Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

10. 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 H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. 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 H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • magical realism
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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 Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) by Josiah Bancroft

12. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

Similar categories in Josiah Bancroft's The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

13. 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

Similar categories in Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

14. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

Cover of The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch by Mary McMyne

15. The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch

By: Mary McMyne

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put h… read more

Similar categories in Mary McMyne's The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

16. Ink Blood Sister Scribe

By: Emma Törzs

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's li… read more

Similar categories in Emma Törzs's Ink Blood Sister Scribe book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • magical realism
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Secrets were currency and Isabel intended to stay rich."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"...the closet of her sexual subconscious was full of petticoats."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Cover of The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

17. The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.16

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul. Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark … read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller

18. The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

By: Rowenna Miller

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

"A warm-hearted yet fierce fairy tale."―H. G. Parry In the early 1900s, two sisters must navigat… read more

Similar categories in Rowenna Miller's The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mama, is that Aunt Eula’s chicken recipe?"

-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

" Where flowers bloom And leaves are ever green Fortune’s winds are shifting By fairy touch unseen —Folk song"

-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

" Set the table, china fine Acorn cup and dewdrop wine Crumbs of cake, berries wild High tea for Fae beguiled --- Children's rhyme"

-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

" Here's to thee, old apple-tree, To buds in the spring and roots in the loam, To the Fae who brings the apples home. ---Wassail song"

-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

19. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

20. The Spellshop

By: Sarah Beth Durst

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Spellshop book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"She was lonely, and she wanted someone to love. She made me out of love, and the empire destroyed her for it."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"There was something so very beautiful about a notebook without a single note in it. It felt like touching pure potential."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"I hope you know what you're doing" Caz said as he returned. "I absolutely do not know what I'm doing. I thought that was clear?"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

Cover of Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons (Miss Percy Guide #3) by Quenby Olson

21. Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons (Miss Percy Guide #3)

By: Quenby Olson

4.61

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Mildred Percy has no wish to go to London. Unfortunately, her niece, Belinda, has recently … read more

Similar categories in Quenby Olson's Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons (Miss Percy Guide #3) book and H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter

  • historical
  • fantasy

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Transform Your Habits

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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Hester Fox

3.36

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Katherine Arden

4.02

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S.A. Chakraborty

4.03

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Hannah Kaner

3.90

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4.00

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