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Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction

10 best books like Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction (Ellen Datlow): Sunshine, The Witches Are Coming, The Summer of the Danes, The Crown of Dalemark, The Spellcoats, The Glass Town Game, The Tea Dragon Festival, The Homeward Bounders, Drowned Ammet, Jane-Emily

Sunshine
AuthorRobin McKinley
ISBN0515138819
Okay, so I seriously pondered over whether to give this book three stars or four. In the end, I DID enjoy it so I felt generous and gave it four, but it's not without its faults.

Once, when I was a little kid, my parents bought me my favourite ice cream. There's actually only one kind of ice cream that...
The Witches Are Coming
AuthorLindy West
ISBN0316449881
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.

THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.
WE’RE WITCHES,
AND WE’RE HUNTING YOU.

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo...
The Summer of the Danes
AuthorEllis Peters
ISBN0446400181
To tie in with the hardcover release of Peters' The Benediction of Brother Cadfael, here is the 18th entry in the eminently successful medieval detective series. In the summer of 1144, Brother Cadfael is sent to Wales on church business and is captured by Danes. And when a prisoner is murderer, the clever...
The Crown of Dalemark
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473163

This is a long ‘un, folks.

Let me begin this with a confession: I am rating this book more by nostalgia than truth. It’s a horrible choice, I know. It inflates the rating and gives first-time readers a false impression. But, frankly my dears, I don’t give a damn.

I read the Dalemark...
The Spellcoats
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473155
The Spellcoats is one of the first books I ever read by Diana Wynne Jones and is still one of my favorites. With her tenth published novel, she demonstrates a maturity that marks the rest of her career; as good as her previous works are, with The Spellcoats she plays with first person limited POV and the clash...
The Glass Town Game
AuthorCatherynne M. Valente
Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this adventurous and fiercely intelligent novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

Inside a small Yorkshire...
The Tea Dragon Festival
AuthorKatie O'Neill
ISBN1620106558
Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn’s adventuring uncle...
The Homeward Bounders
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0749702818
"You are now a discard. We have no further use for you in play. You are free to walk the Bounds, but it will be against the rules for you to enter play in any world. If you succeed in returning Home, then you may enter play again in the normal manner."

When Jamie unwittingly discovers the sinister,...
Drowned Ammet
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473147
Diana Wynne Jones doesn't make the worldbuilding too easy to follow. I remember reading in her collected non-fiction writings that she found that children made the leaps her books require much more easily than adults do. So I try to think like a child when I read her work (it sort of pleases me, the way people...
Jane-Emily
AuthorPatricia Clapp
ISBN0688045928
Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.

Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts....
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0679762221
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty...
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
AuthorMalalai Joya
Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls' schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn't find them; she helped establish a...
All That Remains: A Life in Death
AuthorSue Black
ISBN0857524925
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All that...
Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0333376137
Diana was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were teachers. When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Wales, and thereafter moved several times, including periods in Coniston Water, in York, and back...
Giant Days, Vol. 11
AuthorJohn Allison
ISBN1684154375
It’s Daisy, Esther and Susan’s third year at university, and with that comes new beaus, new jobs, and new adventures.

The third (and final!) year of university is finally here, and BFFs Daisy, Esther, and Susan are in for some surprising upsets in their first semester. Between Halloween...
Scholarly Magics
AuthorCaroline Stevermer
ISBN0739443178
I honestly should be rating these separately. I would give the first book a four and the second book a five. I actually really loved both of them, but I'm not sure I can forgive Stevermer for what she did to Tyrian. I loved Tyrian. Everyone should have a Tyrian. However, I also really loved Jane for her forceful...
The Golden Compass Graphic Novel, Complete Edition
AuthorStéphane Melchior-Durand
ISBN0553535161
Having simply adored and been enchanted by The Golden Compass, I enjoyed getting to see the story in a graphic novel format. Fans of abridged books may enjoy this one greatly since it manages to distill the wonderful story to its essential points. All the elements that made the original story's so compelling...
Witch Please: Magical Musings on Life, Love, and Owning Your Power
AuthorSonia Lazo
Who wouldn't want to be a witch?

Witches are fierce. Witches are unstoppable. And most importantly, they are never alone.

Whether you're an advanced occultist, or simply magi-curious, this love letter to the modern witch will help you find your coven, discover your magic, and be...
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