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A list of fantasy books (a few sci-fi) for anyone who loves forest settings. Inspired by Uprooted by Naomi Novik, as well as Brothers Grimm's fairy tales.
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The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 227,699 ratings
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Uprooted
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 260,181 ratings
score: 490,
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The Darkest Part of the Forest
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 87,503 ratings
score: 378,
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Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
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Emily Tesh (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 23,238 ratings
score: 373,
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 291,791 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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Spinning Silver
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 148,466 ratings
score: 284,
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Through the Woods
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 478,514 ratings
score: 267,
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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The Snow Child
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Eowyn Ivey (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 168,935 ratings
score: 262,
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The Word for World Is Forest
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4.06 avg rating — 41,889 ratings
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Pilu of the Woods
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Mai K. Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 8,909 ratings
score: 228,
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 220,187 ratings
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A Tale Dark & Grimm (A Tale Dark & Grimm, #1)
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Adam Gidwitz (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 26,713 ratings
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The Enchanted Wood (The Faraway Tree, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 30,282 ratings
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Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 10,929 ratings
score: 180,
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The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, #1)
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Sarah Beth Durst (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 14,000 ratings
score: 178,
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Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 70,465 ratings
score: 175,
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In the Forests of Serre
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3.97 avg rating — 3,729 ratings
score: 171,
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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 495,113 ratings
score: 168,
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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
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Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 121,077 ratings
score: 165,
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,734,698 ratings
score: 165,
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The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
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Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 101,072 ratings
score: 161,
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Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 93,951 ratings
score: 150,
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Bridge to Terabithia
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4.06 avg rating — 584,631 ratings
score: 142,
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Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales
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Soman Chainani (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 9,334 ratings
score: 139,
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Whichwood (Furthermore, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 6,227 ratings
score: 132,
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 127,893 ratings
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The Ghost Woods
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C.J. Cooke (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 8,390 ratings
score: 127,
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The Drowned Woods
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Emily Lloyd-Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 12,625 ratings
score: 125,
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Semiosis (Semiosis Duology, #1)
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Sue Burke (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 14,875 ratings
score: 100,
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Der wandernde Wald (Enwor, #1)
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3.64 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Arising
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Lisa Perskie Rodriguez (Goodreads Author)
4.66 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Warden of the Purple Night: A Standalone Fantasy Romance
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Elena Druță (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 100,
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Dreamer's Pool (Blackthorn & Grim, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 16,272 ratings
score: 98,
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Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
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3.68 avg rating — 5,621 ratings
score: 97,
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The Wolf and the Woodsman
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Ava Reid (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 30,506 ratings
score: 96,
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For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
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Hannah F. Whitten (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 63,472 ratings
score: 95,
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 7,209,160 ratings
score: 95,
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,219,518 ratings
score: 92,
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 252,548 ratings
score: 91,
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
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3.81 avg rating — 11,089 ratings
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My Neighbor Totoro: The Novel
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4.41 avg rating — 4,742 ratings
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The Wind in the Willows
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4.02 avg rating — 237,952 ratings
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The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood, #1)
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Melissa Albert (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 101,319 ratings
score: 87,
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Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)
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Melissa Albert (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,573 ratings
score: 86,
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Into the Heartless Wood
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Joanna Ruth Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 4,500 ratings
score: 84,
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Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 32,195 ratings
score: 78,
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Dreamwood
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Heather Mackey (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 725 ratings
score: 77,
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Greenmantle
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,431 ratings
score: 76,
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 502,405 ratings
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Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)
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Brandon Mull (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 176,419 ratings
score: 71,
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Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
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Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 107,229 ratings
score: 65,
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Hexwood
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4.01 avg rating — 4,512 ratings
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The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 12,799 ratings
score: 61,
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The Forest of Moon and Sword
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3.70 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Seven Endless Forests
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3.56 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
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Forestborn (Forestborn, #1)
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Elayne Audrey Becker (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
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Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 33,277 ratings
score: 56,
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Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress, #1)
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Julie C. Dao (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 10,379 ratings
score: 55,
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Winterwood
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Shea Ernshaw (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 27,663 ratings
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Beyond the Deepwoods (The Edge Chronicles: The Twig Saga, #1)
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Paul Stewart (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 16,614 ratings
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Edgewood
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Kristen Ciccarelli (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,636 ratings
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Midnight in Everwood
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3.54 avg rating — 10,679 ratings
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The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)
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Maryrose Wood (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 22,947 ratings
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Zahrah the Windseeker
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
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The Wolf Hour
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Sara Lewis Holmes (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Wolf Wilder
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Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)
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A Wolf for a Spell
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Karah Sutton (Goodreads Author)
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Among the Beasts & Briars
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Ashley Poston (Goodreads Author)
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The Fox's Tower and Other Tales: A Collection of Magical Short Stories
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The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (Grishaverse, #0.5, 2.5, 2.6)
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Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 63,270 ratings
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Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)
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Lori M. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 4,484 ratings
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Forest of Memory
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Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author)
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
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The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 38,925 ratings
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The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 26,427 ratings
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Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 25,629 ratings
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We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
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Hafsah Faizal (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 107,286 ratings
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The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 20,780 ratings
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