Books like “Spinning Silver”

What to read after “Spinning Silver” by Naomi Novik: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher · 2022
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
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.
2
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 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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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling” and “Fae”
Feyre kills a wolf in the winter woods and is taken to a magical realm as payment. In the Spring Court she learns the land is cursed, and her loathing for its high lord slowly turns into something she never expects.
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The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale · 2003
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Slow Burn
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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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 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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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.
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Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine · 1997
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Slow Burn
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.
10
Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim · 2021
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Slow Burn
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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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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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett · 2023
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Slow Burn
Emily Wilde, a prickly scholar of faerie folklore, travels to a frozen northern village to finish her encyclopaedia. Her charming colleague Wendell follows, and the two must bargain with the hidden folk whose mischief binds the village -- and Emily herself -- to an old tale.