Books like “The Witch's Heart”

What to read after “The Witch's Heart” by Genevieve Gornichec: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Xingyin grows up alone on the moon, hidden from the emperor who exiled her mother for stealing an elixir of immortality. When her magic is discovered she flees, conceals her identity at the celestial court and trains as a warrior to win her mother's freedom.
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Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
Marra, a shy convent-raised princess, learns that no one will save her sister from a cruel prince -- so she decides to do it herself. Three impossible tasks, a gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother and a demon-possessed chicken later, she sets out to stop a king.
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Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018
From the same world: “Witches” and “Mythology Retelling”
- Witches
- Mythology Retelling
Born to a sun god, Circe is banished to a lonely island for her forbidden magic. She hones her craft, meets travellers and monsters, and slowly chooses what kind of immortal she wants to be.
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The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden · 2017
From the same world: “Witches” and “Mythology Retelling”
- Witches
- Mythology Retelling
In a northern village at the edge of the Russian wilderness, Vasya grows up hearing the old house spirits and fairy tales her stepmother forbids. When new winters bring a creeping evil, only Vasya, who can still see the spirits, can bargain with the forces threatening her home.
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Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
With the witch hunts still burning, Lou and Reid flee and try to gather allies against the church. They bargain with people they do not trust and hide a bond more dangerous than any enemy. As the threat grows, Lou senses that the darkness inside her is not as harmless as she believed.
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The Ninth Rain
Jen Williams · 2017
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
For years the invading Jure'lia have been beaten back, but the cost has drained the empire. Tormalin, an exiled Eboran, and Vintage, a scholar, are hunting the truth about the fell-witches when they find Noon, a woman carrying a power the Jure'lia have waited centuries to claim.
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Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Born a princess and cast aside by her father, Kaikeyi claims a place at court and wins the love of a king. When war threatens her sons' future, she uses the boons she was granted to change the fate of a kingdom.
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Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Juno Dawson · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Four friends once swore an oath to Her Majesty's Royal Coven, the secret department of witches protecting Britain. Decades on, one runs the coven and one has left it, and whispers of a prophecy and a young warlock of frightening power force them to choose between tradition and what is right.
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The Stardust Thief
Chelsea Abdullah · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- Found Family
Loulie al-Nazari, the Midnight Merchant, trades in jinn relics with her jinn bodyguard Qadir. When the sultan forces her into a search for a lost lamp, she must cross a desert of jinn, thieves and old stories, where the line between merchant and prey keeps shifting.
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The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley · 1982
From the same world: “Witches” and “Mythology Retelling”
- Witches
- Mythology Retelling
The Arthurian legend is told through the women around the throne, above all Morgaine, a priestess of Avalon. As Britain turns to a new faith and a new king, she works to keep the old ways alive and watches the cost of a united kingdom.
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The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle · 1968
Similar atmosphere: “Melancholic”
- Melancholic
A unicorn learns she may be the last of her kind and leaves her forest to search for the others. With a bumbling magician and a sharp-tongued woman she travels to a king's castle, where love and loss wait at the end of the road.
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A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair · 2019
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Persephone is a young journalist who wants an ordinary life, away from her mother Demeter's plans. At a nightclub she meets Hades, the god of the dead, and loses a wager that binds her to his realm. She must learn to grow life in the underworld, or surrender to a love she was warned against.