Books like “Six Crimson Cranes”

What to read after “Six Crimson Cranes” by Elizabeth Lim: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale · 2003
From the same world: “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.
2
A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Brigid Kemmerer · 2019
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Slow Burn
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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Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine · 1997
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
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 Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2017
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Slow Burn
Asha is the Iskari, a dragon slayer raised by a harsh king to atone for the night her mother died. Feared by her own people, she takes comfort in forbidden old stories and in a kind slave named Torwin. When the dragons offer her another way, everything she was raised to believe starts to break apart.
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Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher · 2022
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Quest
Marra, a shy convent-raised princess, learns that no one will save her sister from a cruel prince -- so she decides to do it herself. Three impossible tasks, a gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother and a demon-possessed chicken later, she sets out to stop a king.
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The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani · 2013
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Coming of Age
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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Eragon
Christopher Paolini · 2002
From the same world: “Dragons”
Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the mountains, and it hatches into a dragon. Chosen as her rider, he is hunted by the king's servants and must leave his village to learn the ways of the Dragon Riders and join the rebels.
8
Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik · 2018
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Slow Burn
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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Uprooted
Naomi Novik · 2015
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
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.
10
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman · 1984
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Quest
After five years apart, old friends meet again at the Inn of the Last Home as war spreads across Krynn. A plain staff, a cleric without faith and rumours of dragons pull them into a quest to recover the Disks of Mishakal, the lost teachings of the true gods, and to stand against the Dragon Highlords.
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The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden · 2017
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Coming of Age
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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The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2019
From the same world: “Dragons”
In the East, the queen Sabran must keep the line of Berethnet alive to hold back the Nameless One. In the West, the mage Ead secretly guards her, and in the South a dragon rider's daughter grows up in hiding.