Books like “The Stardust Thief”

What to read after “The Stardust Thief” by Chelsea Abdullah: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Rebel of the Sands
Alwyn Hamilton · 2016
Same genre: “Adventure”
- Desert World
Amani Al'Hiza lives in Dustwalk, a dead-end desert town, and hides two things: she can shoot like a legend, and she is half djinn. Refusing a blackmail marriage and a future in Dustwalk, she disguises herself and joins a stranger heading into the desert, where a rebellion is gathering.
2
The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh · 2015
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Desert World
- Mythology Retelling
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.
3
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.
4
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
Mina takes her brother's place as the sacrifice meant to calm the Sea God, and wakes in the realm of spirits. There she searches for the god, hoping to save her village and the boy who has waited for her.
5
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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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.
7
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.
8
The Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec · 2021
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- 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.
9
Bridge of Birds
Barry Hughart · 1984
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- Quest
In an ancient China that never was, a plague falls on the children of a village. Number Ten Ox seeks the sage Master Li, a scholar with 'a slight flaw in his character', and the two set off through ghosts, gods and bandits to find the one cure that can save the children.
10
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood · 2005
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
From the underworld, Penelope tells her side of the long wait for Odysseus, while the twelve hanged maids answer with their own chorus. The familiar myth is retold from the women the epic left out.
11
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint · 2021
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Princess Ariadne helps Theseus escape the labyrinth, then is abandoned on a shore where Dionysus finds her. She must decide how much of her story to give away to a god, and what freedom is worth.
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Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson · 2023
Same genre: “Fantasy”
- Found Family
- Quest
Tress lives on an island where the seas are made of deadly spores. When the man she loves is taken by the Sorceress, she leaves her ordinary life, gathers an unlikely crew and sails toward the midnight sea to bring him home.