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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterMultiple POVYoung Adult
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Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Melissa Bashardoust · 384 pages

"Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterMultiple POVYoung Adult
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Unhinged

A.G. Howard · 395 pages

LAlyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen Red. Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so she can attend the prestigious art school in London she's always dreamed of. That would be easier without

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterYoung AdultFantasy
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The Hazel Wood

Melissa Albert · 368 pages

When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterYoung AdultFantasy
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Impossible

Nancy Werlin

When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterYoung AdultFantasy
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A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. Kingfisher · 321 pages

Mother and DaughterFairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVFemale Lead
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Inkdeath

Cornelia Funke · 720 pages

Mother and DaughterFairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVYoung Adult
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The Weight of Blood

Tiffany D Jackson · 400 pages

Mother and DaughterFairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVYoung Adult
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Of Beast and Beauty

Stacey Jay · 400 pages

In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret... In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could ret

Fairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVYoung AdultFantasy
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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh · 416 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultMultiple POVFemale Lead
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Into the Wild

Sarah Beth Durst · 266 pages

Having escaped from the Wild and the preordained fairy tale plots it imposes, Rapunzel, along with her daughter Julie Marchen, tries to live a fairly normal life, but when the Wild breaks free and takes over their town, it is Julie who has to prevent everyone from being trapped in the events of a story.

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterYoung AdultFantasy
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Poison in Their Hearts

Laura Sebastian · 544 pages

Mother and DaughterMultiple POVYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Scarlet

Marissa Meyer · 512 pages

Cinder is back and trying to break out of prison―even though she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive if she does―in this second installment from Marissa Meyer. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother, or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf

Fairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultMultiple POVFantasy
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Seeing Redd

Frank Beddor · 384 pages

Alyss of Wonderland's rules has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal Bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss is doing her best to keep pace with the non-stop demands of being Queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge. Alyss's life is already a challenging mix of du

Fairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVYoung AdultFemale Lead
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The Golden Braid

Melanie Dickerson · 320 pages

Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter, and warns he

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterYoung AdultPrinces and Princesses
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A Whole New World

Liz Braswell · 376 pages

"Aladdin is a street rat. There's really no getting around that. Like most, he's just trying to survive another day in impoverished Agrabah. Jasmine is a princess, one who is about to enter into an arranged marriage. All she wants is to escape her fate, to see what lies beyond the palace walls. But everything changes when the sultan's trusted advisor, Jafar, suddenly rises to power. With the help

Fairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultMultiple POVFantasy
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Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of The Magic Flute

Cameron Dokey · 196 pages

A new spin on "The Magic Flute" by an acclaimed author! In a time when the world was young and many things were quite commonplace that are now entirely forgotten, Sarastro, Mage of the Day, wed Pamina, the Queen of the Night. And in this way was the world complete, for light was joined to dark. For all time would they be joined together. Only the ending of the world could tear them apart. In othe

Fairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVYoung AdultFantasy
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Fathomless

Jackson Pearce

Celia, who shares mental powers with her triplet sisters, finds competition for a handsome boy with Lo, a sea monster who must persuade a mortal to love her and steal his soul to earn back her humanity.

Fairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVYoung AdultFantasy
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Tender Morsels

Margo Lanagan · 464 pages

Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever--magicked men and wild bears break down the bor

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterFantasyFemale Lead
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White as Snow

Tanith Lee · 319 pages

"Arpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord's palace. Cold as winter, she has only one passion for the mysterious hunter who courts the outlawed old gods of the woodland. Coira is the princess raised in the shadow of her mother's hatred. Avoided by both her parents and half-forgotten by her father's court, she grows into womanhood alone until the mirror speaks, and blood is spille

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterFantasyFemale Lead
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The School for Good and Evil

Soman Chainani · 496 pages

**A dark and enchanting fantasy adventure perfect for those who prefer their fairytales with a twist. The first in the bestselling School for Good and Evil series.** Every four years, two girls are kidnapped from the village of Gavaldon. Legend has it these lost children are sent to the School for Good and Evil, the fabled institution where they become fairytale heroes or villains. With her

Fairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Snow White and Rose Red

Patricia C. Wrede · 273 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingMother and DaughterFantasyPrinces and Princesses
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Beastly

Alex Flinn · 320 pages

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright — a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever — ruined — unless I can break the spell.Yes, the spell, the one the wit

Fairy Tale RetellingMultiple POVYoung AdultFantasy
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Infandous

Elana K. Arnold · 194 pages

Sephora Golding lives in the shadow of her unbelievably beautiful mother. Even though they scrape by in the seedier part of Venice Beach, she's always felt lucky. As a child, she imagined she was a minor but beloved character in her mother's fairy tale. But now, at sixteen, the fairy tale is less Disney and more Grimm. And she wants the story to be her own. Then she meets Felix, and the fairy tal

Mother and DaughterFairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultFemale Lead

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