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Adult Novels

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• If you liked: The Secret History by Donna Tartt,
  you might like: If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
  Dark academia where elitism turns murderous.
   

• If you liked: Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
  you might like: The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea
  Gothic fiction about women battling the metaphorical ghosts of the ir husbands previous wives.
   

• If you liked: Circe by Madeline Miller
  you might like: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
  or A thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
  Retelling of Greek mythology, from the perspective of women given voice.
   

• If you liked: The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
  you might like: Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
  Coming of age against the backdrop of a world wrecked by climate-related apocalypse.
   

• If you liked: The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni
  you might like: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
  Stunning nature-writing combined with character portraits of damaged women against a background of  arctic isolation.
   
• If you liked: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
  you might like: One Upon a River by Dianne Setterfield
  Historical fiction about the lines of science and mythology blurring on the English riverside.
   
• If you liked: Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
  you might like: The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
  London-based historical fiction about collectors of curiosities who stumble upon what may or may not be a mermaid.
   
• If you liked: Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson
  you might like:Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  A court-trial stirrs up memories of prejudice, outcasts and forbidden love in a small town community.
  
   
• If you liked: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
  you might like: Constellations by Sinead Gleeson
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  Sight by Jessie Greengrass
  Beautifully written memoirs in which women combine science with an exploration of body, health, motherhood and more. 
   
• If you liked: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
  you might like: Piranesi by Susanne Clarke
  Lyrical, slow paced stories of characters wandering the halls of their own extended mind-palaces.
   

• If you liked: The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
  you might like: Foundry Side by Robert Jackson Bennett
  High fantasy novels by celebrated authors, featuring a strong female protagonist, a heist-plotline and very different but similar feeling magicsystems.
   

• If you liked: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  you might like: In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey
  Gothic hauntings set in remote English manors, where the ghost could be supernatural or psychological in nature.
  
   

Young-Adult Novels:

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• If you liked: The Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo
  you might like: The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
  YA-fantasy-heist stories involving colourful and diverse casts of characters that are some of the best represenation the YA-fantasy genre has to offer.
   

• If you liked: Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
  you might like: Challenger Deep by Neal Schusterman
  Imaginative and heartfelt stories that use fantasy element to explore the inner world of teenagers with life-changing illnesses.
   

• If you liked: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
  you might like: The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
  action-packed YA urban fantasy featuring a  "dimensional" traveling protagonist and banter-filled side kicks. One set in New York, one in London.
   

• If you liked: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
  you might like: City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itaränta
  heavily dreamlike stories featuring differnt characters a mysterious city
   

• If you liked: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
  you might like: The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
  light magical realism exploring the death of a parent
   

• If you liked: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
  you might like: When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
  Magical realism set in small towns about being different and feeling like an outsider. Both written in highly lyrical prose that is art in its own right.
   

• If you liked: We Speak in Storms by Natalie Lunde
  you might like: Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
  Or: If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley
  Small town atmospheric magical realism about tight-knit communities and an unexplainable threat, representative of a more mundane and relatable evil.
   

• If you liked: If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley
  you might like: Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
  both YA-novels that portray domestic and parental abuse through the lens of magical realism.
   

• If you liked: Sawkill Girls by Claire LeGrande
  you might like: Wilder Girls by Rory Power
  Feminist YA horror featuring F-F romance.
   

• If you liked: The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
  you might like: Like Water by Rebecca Podos
  both beautifully written stories set over the summer, dealing with family struggles and a wonderful F-F romance. Also water-motif throughout both.
   

• If you liked: Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour
  you might like: Wild Blue Wonder by Carlie Sorosiak
  2 magical realism stories that center around grief, placed in a summercamp-like setting in winter. 
   

• If you liked: The Bookthief by Markus Zusak 
  you might like: Wilder Girls by Rory Power
  Both set during WWII from a perspective you may not have often read from.
   

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Movies/TV-shows

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• If you liked: Stranger Things 
  you might like: The Devouring Gray - Christine Lynn Hermann
  Small town teens with superpowers fight a supernatural threat from a "shadow-dimension"
  
   

• If you liked: Disney's Atlantis
  you might like: Strange The Dreamer by Laini Taylor
  Scholarly man with a very niche research-field finds a hidden city and love within.
   

• If you liked: Hotel Transylvania
  you might like: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune
  Wholesome and heartfelt adventures in a house filled with monsters, who honestly are a lot more adorable than they are scary.
   

• If you liked: The Shape of Water
  you might like: Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz
  Modern fairytale about a girl who falls in love with a fish-man. Both are a bit dark, and probably as weird as you imagine based off the synopsis.
   

• If you liked: Prometheus
  you might like: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
  The infection of a xenobiologist with an alien parasite leads to life-threatening situations and rising questions about transcendence and what it means to be human.
   

• If you liked: Slasher-movies
  you might like: Final Girls by Riley Sager
  Serial killer hunting down vitcims, who coincidentally happen to be scarcely clad college girls. Okay, the book is a bit more feminist-friendly...
   

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