Books like “The School for Good and Evil”

What to read after “The School for Good and Evil” by Soman Chainani: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead · 2007
Similar setting: “Boarding School” and “Magic Academy”
Rose Hathaway is a dhampir, trained to guard her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire princess. After two years on the run, they are returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where Rose falls for her instructor and the school's wards hide dangerous secrets.
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The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale · 2003
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Coming of Age
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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Fallen
Lauren Kate · 2009
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
- Boarding School
- Love Triangle
After a boy dies in a fire she cannot explain, Lucinda is sent to Sword & Cross, a bleak reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to Daniel, a distant student she somehow knows. The shadows she has seen since childhood, and Daniel's secrets, point to a love older than her life.
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Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim · 2021
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Coming of Age
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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Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine · 1997
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Coming of Age
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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Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
Miles Halter leaves his quiet Florida home for a boarding school in Alabama, drawn by the last words of famous people. There he joins a tight circle of friends, falls for the reckless Alaska Young, and is forced to reckon with loss and guilt.
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Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire · 2016
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
- Boarding School
- Coming of Age
Children who have returned from magical worlds struggle to readjust, so Eleanor West's home gives them somewhere to belong. When Nancy arrives from the Halls of the Dead, she finds the school hiding its own dangers and a mystery that threatens her new friends.
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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.
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Uprooted
Naomi Novik · 2015
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Coming of Age
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”
- 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.