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Books Like Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

by Robin McKinley · about this book

Loved Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley? If its fairy tale retelling, fantasy and female lead hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Bryony and Roses, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea and Spinning Silver. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: Fairy Tale Retelling · Fantasy · Female Lead · First Person Narrator · Romance

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   Bryony and Roses

   T. Kingfisher

   Fairy Tale Retelling · Castle · Curses · Charming · Fantasy

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   The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

   Axie Oh

   Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Charming · First Person Narrator · Female Lead

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   Spinning Silver

   Naomi Novik

   Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · First Person Narrator · Slow Burn Romance · Fantasy

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   Hunted

   Meagan Spooner

   Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Slow Burn Romance · Fantasy · Female Lead

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   Bonded by Thorns

   Elizabeth Helen

   Fairy Tale Retelling · Castle · Bookish · Curses · Fantasy

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   Among the Beasts & Briars

   Ashley Poston

   Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Charming · Slow Burn Romance · Female Lead

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   Emily Wilde Series 2 Books Collection Set By Heather Fawcett (Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries & Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands)

   Heather Fawcett

   Bookish · Slow Burn Romance · Curses · Charming · Fantasy

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   Gild

   Raven Kennedy

   Castle · Slow Burn Romance · Fairy Tale Retelling · Fantasy · Female Lead

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   Six Crimson Cranes

   Elizabeth Lim

   Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Slow Burn Romance · Fantasy · First Person Narrator

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10. 

    For the Wolf

    Hannah Whitten

    Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Slow Burn Romance · Fantasy · Female Lead

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11. 

    The Thirteenth Child

    Erin A. Craig

    Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · First Person Narrator · Female Lead · Fantasy

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    Where the Dark Stands Still

    A.B. Poranek

    Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Slow Burn Romance · First Person Narrator · Fantasy

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13. 

    A Spindle Splintered

    Alix E. Harrow

    Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Fantasy · First Person Narrator · Female Lead

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14. 

    Howl's Moving Castle

    Diana Wynne Jones

    Curses · Fairy Tale Retelling · Female Lead · Fantasy · Charming

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15. 

    A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

    Sangu Mandanna

    Charming · Curses · Slow Burn Romance · Fantasy · Female Lead

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16. 

    A Court of Thorns and Roses

    Sarah J. Maas

    Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Fantasy · Female Lead · First Person Narrator

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    The Spellshop

    Sarah Beth Durst

    Bookish · Slow Burn Romance · Charming · Fantasy · Female Lead

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18. 

    Good Spirits

    B.K. Borison

    Fairy Tale Retelling · Charming · Slow Burn Romance · Female Lead · First Person Narrator

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19. 

    Accomplice to the Villain

    Hannah Nicole Maehrer

    Charming · Curses · Slow Burn Romance · Fantasy · Female Lead

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    Once Upon a Broken Heart

    Stephanie Garber

    Fairy Tale Retelling · Curses · Fantasy · Female Lead · Romance

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