AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Swan Maiden

Heather Tomlinson · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Hunted

Meagan Spooner · 387 pages

Beauty knows the Beast s forest in her bones and in her blood. She knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who s ever come close to discovering them. But Yeva s grown up far from her father s old lodge, raised to be part of the city s highest caste of artistocrats. Still, she s never forgotten the feel of a bow in her hands, and she s spent a lifetime longing for

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryYoung AdultFantasy
❤️

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 RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
❤️

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 RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
❤️

Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Cameron Dokey

Belle is convinced she has the wrong name, as she lacks her sisters' awe-inspiring beauty. So she withdraws from society, devoting her time to wood carving. Secretly, Belle longs to find the fabled Heartwood Tree. If carved by the right hands, the Heartwood will reveal the face of one's true love. During a fierce storm, Belle's father stumbles upon the mysterious Heartwood -- and encounters a

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
❤️

Howl's Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones · 304 pages

As the oldest daughter, willful, outspoken Sophie knew that her life could lead to nothing but mistakes. When her father dies, her stepmother sends her two sisters out to make their fortunes while Sophie continues to work in the family hattery. As she whispers her thoughts to the hats she trims, the shop begins to grow in popularity, until she offends the Wicked Witch of the Waste. The witch casts

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
❤️

Fairest

Gail Carson Levine · 336 pages

This is a retelling of the fairy tale Snow White. From the Author: The fairy Lucinda has once again given a dreadful gift. This time it's a mysterious magical mirror. The gift is disastrous when it falls into the hands of Aza, who never looks in a mirror if she can help it. In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza is most definitely not the fairest of them all. Many spurn her. Many scoff at her. She ke

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
❤️

The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
❤️

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 RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
❤️

The Goose Girl

Shannon Hale · 383 pages

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, or simply Ani for short, was destined to be the queen of Kiladree. But then her father died. Now she is being whisked away to Bayern to marry a prince she's never met in order to ensure peace between the two countries. However, she faces betrayal after betrayal from those she least expects it from- her mother, her guards, and even her seemingly faithful ladyinwaiti

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
❤️

Beastkeeper

Cat Hellisen · 210 pages

"Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever"--

Fairy Tale RetellingFantasyYoung AdultShapeshifters
❤️

Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · 454 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultFantasyWitches & Witchcraft
❤️

Penelope

Marilyn Kaye · 240 pages

Penelope Wilhern has everything a girl could want: A wealthy, socialite family, an enchanted bedroom and some of the coolest clothes around. There is only one problem: She was born into a cursed family and has the face of a pig. Hidden away from the world, Penelope now finds herself subjected to a string of snobby, blue-blooded bachelors in a desperate attempt to find her a husband in order to

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryYoung AdultFantasy
❤️

Princess Ben

Catherine Gilbert Murdock · 368 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
🙂

Just Ella

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 218 pages

You've heard the fairytale: a glass slipper, Prince Charming, happily ever after... Welcome to reality: royal genealogy lessons, needlepoint, acting like "a proper lady," and -- worst of all -- a prince who is not the least bit interesting, and certainly not charming. As soon-to-be princess Ella deals with her newfound status, she comes to realize she is not "your majesty" material. But br

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryYoung AdultFantasy
🙂

Tris & Izzie

Mette Ivie Harrison

When sixteen-year-old Izzie makes a love potion for her best friend, she is unaware that she, like her long-dead father, has real magic, and while she is trying to sort out her friends' love lives she must also deal with monsters that have her magical scent and want to destroy her.

Fairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultFantasyWitches & Witchcraft
🙂

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Gregory Maguire · 370 pages

From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyFemale Lead
🙂

Vassa in the Night

Sarah Porter · 303 pages

In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, the fashionable people put on cute shoes, go to parties in warehouses, drink on rooftops at sunset, and tell themselves they ve arrived. A whole lot of Brooklyn is like that now but not Vassa s working-class neighborhood.

Fairy Tale RetellingFantasyYoung AdultWitches & Witchcraft
🙂

Among the Beasts & Briars

Ashley Poston · 342 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultFantasyShapeshifters
🙂

No Place Like Oz

Danielle Paige · 196 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingFantasyYoung AdultWitches & Witchcraft
🙂

Birdwing

Rafe Martin · 359 pages

Prince Ardwin, known as Birdwing, the youngest of six brothers turned into swans by their stepmother, is unable to complete the transformation back into human form, so he undertakes a journey to discover whether his feathered arm will be a curse or a blessing to him.

Fairy Tale RetellingSelf-DiscoveryFantasyYoung Adult
🙂

The Ballad of Never After

Stephanie Garber · 416 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultFantasyFemale Lead
🙂

Dreaming Anastasia

Joy Preble · 310 pages

In alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Chicagoan Anne and handsome, magical Ethan tell of their fated quest to rescue Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia, who tells of her long captivity in the hut of legendary witch Baba Yaga.

Fairy Tale RetellingFantasyYoung AdultWitches & Witchcraft
🙂

Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 176 pages

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Self-DiscoveryFairy Tale RetellingFantasyWitches & Witchcraft
🙂

Sweetly

Jackson Pearce

When the owner of a candy shop molds magical treats that instill confidence, bravery, and passion, eighteen-year-old Gretchen's haunted childhood memories of her twin sister's abduction by a witch-like monster begin to fade until girls start vanishing at the annual chocolate festival.

Fairy Tale RetellingFantasyYoung AdultWitches & Witchcraft

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.