Books like “The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea”

What to read after “The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea” by Axie Oh: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh · 2015
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- Slow Burn
Each dawn the young caliph marries a bride, and each dawn she is dead. When Shahrzad volunteers to marry him, she survives the first night by telling stories and begins to look for the truth behind his cruelty.
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Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr · 2007
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Fated Mates
Aislinn has always followed the rules for surviving the hidden world of faeries: never draw their attention, never let them know she can see them. Then the Summer King begins to court her, sure she is the queen he has been searching for, while her human friend Seth refuses to let her face the fae alone.
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The Stardust Thief
Chelsea Abdullah · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
Loulie al-Nazari, the Midnight Merchant, trades in jinn relics with her jinn bodyguard Qadir. When the sultan forces her into a search for a lost lamp, she must cross a desert of jinn, thieves and old stories, where the line between merchant and prey keeps shifting.
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A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair · 2019
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Persephone is a young journalist who wants an ordinary life, away from her mother Demeter's plans. At a nightclub she meets Hades, the god of the dead, and loses a wager that binds her to his realm. She must learn to grow life in the underworld, or surrender to a love she was warned against.
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Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Born a princess and cast aside by her father, Kaikeyi claims a place at court and wins the love of a king. When war threatens her sons' future, she uses the boons she was granted to change the fate of a kingdom.
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- Quest
Xingyin grows up alone on the moon, hidden from the emperor who exiled her mother for stealing an elixir of immortality. When her magic is discovered she flees, conceals her identity at the celestial court and trains as a warrior to win her mother's freedom.
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The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander · 1964
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
Taran, an assistant pig-keeper who wants only to be a hero, loses the oracular pig Hen Wen and follows her into the land of Prydain. With a bard, a princess and a creature named Gurgi, he stumbles into a war against the Horned King.
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Gild
Raven Kennedy · 2020
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- Slow Burn
Auren has been King Midas's gilded favourite for years, kept in a golden cage and told she is safe there. Cruelty and control shape every part of her life, and she believes she has no other choice. Then a new king arrives at the castle, and the cracks in her golden world begin to widen.
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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Slow Burn
- Quest
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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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
After her mother's death, Bree Matthews joins an early college program at UNC and witnesses a demon attack that no one else remembers. Pulled into a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights, she hunts for the truth behind the magic that erased her memory.
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The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- Slow Burn
Patroclus, a prince in disgrace, is sent to train under Achilles, the golden boy destined for glory. Their friendship deepens into love as the Trojan War calls them both toward a fate only one of them will regret.
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The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan · 2005
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- Quest
Percy Jackson, a twelve-year-old who keeps getting expelled, learns he is a demigod and is accused of stealing Zeus's master bolt. With Annabeth and Grover he crosses America to return it, facing monsters and gods to stop a war on Olympus.