Books like The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
12 books with a reading profile close to The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
The Change
narrative, literary
Set in the wealthy enclave of Mattauk, New York, this novel follows three women whose bodies begin to manifest supernatural abilities as they enter menopause.
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2
The Teller of Small Fortunes
by Julie Leong
narrative, literary
Tao is a young woman who works as a fortune-teller, reading small fortunes at markets, and who has left her past behind.
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3
Gods of Jade and Shadow
narrative, literary
Set in 1920s Mexico, the story follows Casiopea Tun, a young woman living a life of servitude in her grandfather’s house.
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4
The Tombs of Atuan
narrative, literary
Tenar is chosen as a young girl to be the new high priestess of the Nameless Ones, a set of ancient powers worshipped in the desert of Atuan.
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5
Juniper & Thorn
by Ava Reid
narrative, literary
Set in a fictionalized nineteenth-century Odessa, this gothic fairy tale follows Marlinchen, the youngest of three sisters who live under the suffocating control of their father, a wizard named Zmey.
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Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss Collection 3 Books Set
narrative, literary
This set follows Kvothe, an orphan who survives life as a beggar in Tarbean before gaining entry to the University to study sympathy, a logic-based system of magic.
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Blood Over Bright Haven
by M.L. Wang
narrative, literary
Scilla Highborn is the first woman admitted into the High Circle of mages in Bright Haven, a city powered by magical energy harvested through precise mathematical equations.
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8
When Women Were Dragons
narrative, literary
During the 1955 Mass Dragoning, hundreds of thousands of American women spontaneously transformed into dragons and took to the skies, leaving behind families and lives of forced domesticity.
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The Bright Sword
by Lev Grossman
narrative, literary
Lev Grossman retells the Arthurian legend from the point of view of Collum, a young man who arrives at Camelot after the king's fall.
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Once Upon a River
narrative, literary
On a winter night at the Swan Inn along the Thames, a wounded stranger staggers through the door carrying the lifeless body of a small girl.
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All the Birds in the Sky
narrative, literary
Patricia Delfine is a witch who can communicate with birds, while Laurence Armstead is a lonely engineering prodigy who builds a two-second time machine and a supercomputer.
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12
The Magician's Elephant
narrative, literary
In the cold city of Baltese, young Peter Augustus Duchene lives under the strict guardianship of an old soldier who claims Peter’s sister died at birth.
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