Books like The Teller of Small Fortunes
12 books with a reading profile close to The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong. Clear-cut; 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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The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
narrative, literary
Orquídea Divina is the matriarch of a family in Florida with a home full of magic, who invites her descendants to her funeral and promises each an inheritance.
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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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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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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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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 Magician's Elephant
Also clear-cut · 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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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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10
Death: The High Cost of Living
by Neil Gaiman
narrative, literary
Once every century, Death takes on human form for a single day to understand the lives of those she takes.
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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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The Tale of Despereaux
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
The story follows Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse with oversized ears who is banished to a rat-filled dungeon for breaking mouse law by speaking to a human princess named Pea.
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