Books like “A Court of Thorns and Roses”

What to read after “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Uprooted
Naomi Novik · 2015
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
Every ten years the wizard known as the Dragon takes one girl from Agnieszka's valley. When he chooses her instead of her best friend, she is carried to his tower, where she discovers a talent for magic, a growing bond with her cold teacher and the corrupted Wood that threatens them all.
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The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
From the same world: “Fae”
Jude was born mortal but was raised in the High Court of Faerie after her parents were killed. Mocked by the fae and drawn to the cruel prince Cardan, she schemes her way into the court's politics, trading secrets and taking dangerous risks to win a place among those who despise her.
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The Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
From the same world: “Fae”
On her sixteenth birthday Meghan learns that her little brother has been swapped for a changeling and that the fey are real. To get him back she enters the Nevernever, a dangerous world divided between Summer and Winter courts, where she is drawn to a prince she was raised to fear.
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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
From the same world: “Fae”
Jude now controls the throne from behind the scenes, holding Prince Cardan bound to her for a year and a day. Court politics, undersea enemies and her own divided heart threaten the plan. She must keep her grip on power while denying the feelings growing between her and the wicked king she came to despise.
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Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik · 2018
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling” and “Fae”
Miryem restores her family's moneylending business with a clever tongue, and her boast that she can spin silver into gold reaches the frozen Staryk king. Bound to his winter court, she must use her wits to protect both kingdoms from a bargain that could destroy them.
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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Slow Burn
Isobel paints portraits for the fae, whose kind cannot create art themselves. When she paints mortal sorrow into the face of the autumn prince, she commits a crime that could cost her life. He carries her to his court for judgment, and their mutual distrust slowly turns into something forbidden.
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Beauty
Robin McKinley · 1978
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
A plain, bookish youngest daughter takes her father's place as a prisoner in an enchanted castle. As she comes to know the beast who lives there, she slowly learns that beauty and love are not what she was taught to expect.
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A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova · 2020
From the same world: “Fae”
Luella was raised to be an ordinary healer, not the human bride the Elf King demands. When he comes to claim her, she is taken to Midscape, where her touch can wake the sleeping land. Trapped with a cold, distant husband, she must find a way home or accept a destiny she never wanted.
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Rhapsodic
Laura Thalassa · 2016
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Slow Burn
Years ago, Callie, a siren, made a bargain with the King of the Night and racked up hundreds of favours she has never repaid. Now he has returned to collect, and he needs her help to find fae warriors who are disappearing from the Otherworld. Their old bargain binds them together, and the feelings Callie buried long ago refuse to stay hidden.
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Brigid Kemmerer · 2019
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
Prince Rhen is cursed to relive his eighteenth year as a monster until a girl falls in love with him. Harper, torn from the modern world into his dying kingdom, only wants to go home, but the curse and the enemy at the gates will not wait.
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The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski · 1993
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Dark Fantasy
Geralt of Rivia is a witcher, a mutated monster-hunter for hire. In linked stories he takes on curses, a striga and a djinn, and learns that the line between monster and human is rarely where the stories say it is.
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A Promise of Fire
Amanda Bouchet · 2016
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
Catalia works as a soothsayer in a travelling circus, hiding the power that once made her a pawn of the gods. Griffin, a warlord desperate to save his people, recognises her magic and carries her off to his kingdom. On the long road there, loathing turns into a bond neither of them wanted and neither can deny.