Books like Girl, Serpent, Thorn
12 books with a reading profile close to Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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The Ghost Bride
by Yangsze Choo
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Li Lan, a young woman from a declining family in colonial Malacca in 1893, receives an unusual marriage proposal from the wealthy Lim family: to wed their dead son as a ghost bride.
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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Unabridged CD Audiobook .
by Diana Gabaldon, Davina Porter
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall travels to the Scottish Highlands with her husband to reconnect after the war.
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The Scorpio Races
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
On the island of Thisby, the November tides bring the Capaill Uisce, predatory water horses that emerge from the sea with a hunger for human flesh.
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Claire and Jamie Fraser face the year 1772 in the North Carolina mountains, where the escalating American Revolution threatens the safety of their settlement, Fraser’s Ridge.
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Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Agnieszka lives in a quiet valley shadowed by a malevolent, sentient Wood that consumes any person who ventures too deep.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow belongs to a lineage of women plagued by hereditary hallucinations and sudden disappearances.
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City of Bones/City of Ashes/City of Glass/City of Fallen Angels/City of Lost Souls
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Clary Fray discovers she descends from a line of Shadowhunters, human-angel hybrids who police a hidden world of vampires, werewolves, and faeries in modern New York.
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Heartless
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Long before she became the Red Queen, Catherine Pinkerton dreams of opening a bakery rather than marrying the King of Hearts.
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ALCHEMISED
by SenLinYu
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In the aftermath of a devastating conflict, Myra, an alchemist held in captivity, is delivered to a necromancer named Heiron to undergo an agonizing mental extraction.
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Edgedancer
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Lift, a street-smart girl who commands the ability to become frictionlessly slick by consuming food, travels to the city of Yeddaw.
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Inheritance Cycle
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Eragon, a farm boy in the land of Alagaesia, discovers a polished blue stone that hatches into a dragon named Saphira.
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Legends. Volume I
by Robert Silverberg, Stephen King
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Legends: Volume I is an anthology of original short stories set within established literary universes.
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