Books like “Uprooted”

What to read after “Uprooted” 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” and “Witches”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Witches
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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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
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 Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
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 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.
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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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Beauty
Robin McKinley · 1978
From the same world: “Fairy Tale Retelling”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Slow Burn
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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Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik · 2018
From the same world: “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 Ninth Rain
Jen Williams · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Witches
- Dark Fantasy
For years the invading Jure'lia have been beaten back, but the cost has drained the empire. Tormalin, an exiled Eboran, and Vintage, a scholar, are hunting the truth about the fell-witches when they find Noon, a woman carrying a power the Jure'lia have waited centuries to claim.
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Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Enemies to Lovers
Witch sisters Emilia and Vittoria live secretly among humans, hiding from those who would kill them. When Vittoria is found murdered, Emilia swears to hunt down the killer, even using forbidden magic. Her search brings her to Wrath, a prince of Hell she cannot trust and cannot look away from.
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Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
With the witch hunts still burning, Lou and Reid flee and try to gather allies against the church. They bargain with people they do not trust and hide a bond more dangerous than any enemy. As the threat grows, Lou senses that the darkness inside her is not as harmless as she believed.
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The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski · 1993
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Dark Fantasy
Geralt of Rivia is a witcher, a mutated monster-hunter for hire. In linked stories he takes on curses, a striga and a djinn, and learns that the line between monster and human is rarely where the stories say it is.
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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.