Books that feel like a Florence + the Machine song

In honour of Everybody Scream dropping tomorrow, here are books that are utterly delicious, magical, and sometimes a little bit dark. (Lots of folklore, some horror, and of course feminine rage)

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created by moss-mylk

last updated August, 2026

18 books

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

Roshani Chokshi

Weyward

Emilia Hart

The Six Deaths of the Saint

Alix E. Harrow

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

Tori Bovalino

Slashed Beauties

A. Rushby

The Secret World of Briar Rose

Cindy Pham

Hazelthorn

C.G. Drews

Circe

Madeline Miller

The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black

The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

Olivia Atwater

Once Upon a River

Diane Setterfield

The Bear and the Nightingale

Katherine Arden

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Victoria Schwab

All Woven With Ivy

Thea Hawthorne

The River Has Roots

Amal El-Mohtar

A Far Wilder Magic

Allison Saft

The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater

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thistle_bitch

Wow I love being the target audience

moss-mylkOP

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Would love recs (esp for the more melancholic, angry, or king-ish vibes)! And also any ideas for a more creative title lol

notbillnye

Bury Our Bones by V.E. Schwab, absolutely 🙂‍↕️

moss-mylkOP

Thank you! Added!!!

kmbezner

Thank you for making this list, I LOVE Florence

If you're still looking for recs: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw A Treachery of Swans by A. B. Poranek Providence Girls by Morgan Dante Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher Binary Star by Sarah Gerard Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood

...and would it be too on the nose to put Useless Magic on here? 😂

lotty

SIGN ME UP!! love love Florence 😍

moss-mylkOP

Hehehhehe yayyy!!! Me tooo!!! Lmk what u think whenn u losten to album!!!!

brandanadei

I'm sooo excited for Everybody Scream fr

Afterdark

Would it be weird if I admitted I kept imagining Circe as Florence while I read the book? 😶‍🌫️

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Not weird! Perfect!!! 🖤

moss-mylkOP

Thank you for all the recs! Ill look into these properly soon 💛💛💛 hope youre all enjoying Everybody Scream. So far my faves are Witch Dance and And Love!

x_Abi

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Never knew I needed a list this badly! My 'interested' shelf is about to get a workout.

The new album is insanely good. 🙌🏻

moss-mylkOP

OMG I AM SO HONOURED TYYYYY AND PLS UPDATEBIF U READ ANY

yelyahrose

This came up on my feed so I’m jumping in here to say that I also love the new album!! Definitely gonna have a look through the list 👀

x_Abi

It's so good!! My faves are old religion, sympathy magic, and love and witch dance, but they're all amazing 😍 what are your faves?

yelyahrose

Oooh nice choices! The Old Religion & And Love are two of my faves as well along with Perfume and Milk & Buckle 🥰 Oh and if you haven’t heard the chamber versions that were released for some of the songs then you need to for sure, they’re transcendent!!

x_Abi

The chamber versions are so good! Especially the versions of old religion and everybody scream!

moss-mylkOP

Would The Alix E Harrow knight books work here? Or The Second Death of Locke? What about any dark fairytales? Anything feminine rage-y?

spacemoth

I agree! Those feel very on theme!

moss-mylkOP

Thank you spacemoth!

spacemoth

The Everlasting feels like it would fit on here

moss-mylkOP

Guys, what about Perfume or any cannibalism books?

KatieV

I would like to suggest liveship series if possible! I can’t read that series without thinking of how big how blue how beautiful

moss-mylkOP

Oooh ill look into this thank u katie !!! /g

morganao

ALSO slewfoot by Brom fits here!!! One of my favs

moss-mylkOP

Will look into this!!! Thank uuu

alissabc

Love this! Immediate save. I thought about the King song a lot while reading She Who Became the Sun. The whole duology honestly.

moss-mylkOP

Adore !!!! And thank u, looked it up and i get it. Ill add now!

Anemone

Perfume and Milk & the Old Religion have a hold on me. What about The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig or perhaps Weyward by Emilia Hart?

moss-mylkOP

Ooooh thank u ill look onto this! And for me it’s Wotch Dance and And Love

alissabc

Love hearing such different favorites. Mine right now is Sympathy Magic.

Anemone

There's something for everyone for sure!

Fletcher

Has anyone suggested Last Tale of the Flower Bride yet??

j.bateman

This list is great, but needs more water!

moss-mylkOP

Well do you have any recs? 😉🫀🫀🫀🫶

j.bateman

Our Wives under the Sea is the first one that comes to mind (Florence actually wrote the front cover blurb on the edition I own) there's also into the drowning deep for more mermaid horror

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