Books like “Nettle & Bone”

What to read after “Nettle & Bone” by T. Kingfisher: 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
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling” and “Witches”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Witches
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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Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik · 2018
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
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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The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden · 2017
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling” and “Witches”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Witches
In a northern village at the edge of the Russian wilderness, Vasya grows up hearing the old house spirits and fairy tales her stepmother forbids. When new winters bring a creeping evil, only Vasya, who can still see the spirits, can bargain with the forces threatening her home.
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Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine · 1997
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Quest
At birth Ella is given the gift of obedience, a curse that forces her to do whatever she is told. To escape a life of commands she sets out to find the fairy who blessed her, meeting a prince along the way.
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The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale · 2003
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
Princess Ani sails to a neighbouring kingdom to marry a prince she has never met, but on the journey her lady-in-waiting seizes her name and crown. Forced to work as a goose girl, Ani must keep her identity hidden and gently win back what was stolen.
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Brigid Kemmerer · 2019
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- 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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Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim · 2021
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Quest
Princess Shiori would rather sneak out than learn magic, until a stepmother's spell turns her six brothers into cranes and steals her voice. Silent and alone, she must travel a dangerous empire to break the curse, aided by a boy with secrets of his own.
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The Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec · 2021
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
Angrboda is a witch burned three times for refusing to reveal the future. She hides in a forest and builds a quiet life until Loki finds her, and their children draw the eyes of the gods. A prophecy turns every small happiness into a countdown.
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The Ninth Rain
Jen Williams · 2017
From the same world: “Witches”
For years the invading Jure'lia have been beaten back, but the cost has drained the empire. Tormalin, an exiled Eboran, and Vintage, a scholar, are hunting the truth about the fell-witches when they find Noon, a woman carrying a power the Jure'lia have waited centuries to claim.
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The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani · 2013
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
Every year two children are taken to the School for Good and Evil, one to train as a hero and one as a villain. Best friends Sophie and Agatha are sure they know which is which, but the school has its own plans for them.
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Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
With the witch hunts still burning, Lou and Reid flee and try to gather allies against the church. They bargain with people they do not trust and hide a bond more dangerous than any enemy. As the threat grows, Lou senses that the darkness inside her is not as harmless as she believed.
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The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski · 1993
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
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.