Books like The Tombs of Atuan
12 books with a reading profile close to The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin. Escapist; 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 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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Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss Collection 3 Books Set
Also escapist · 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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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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7
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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10
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 Deep
narrative, literary
Inspired by a song by the group clipping., this novella follows the wajinru, water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard during the Atlantic slave trade.
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The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
by Neil Gaiman
narrative, literary
Barbie, a young woman living in a New York apartment building, returns to the secondary reality of the Land, a dreamscape she inhabited during her childhood.
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