20 must-read fantasy books like Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

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Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and…

"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

If you liked the fantasy plot in Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle

1. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Beagle's I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

Cover of Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1) by Rebecca  Thorne

2. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)

By: Rebecca Thorne

3.82

Format: 388 pages, ebook

All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Thorne's Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • cozy mystery
  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

3. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fiction
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

Cover of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) by Django Wexler

4. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a … read more

Similar categories in Django Wexler's How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • humor
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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5. A Letter to the Luminous Deep

By: Sylvie Cathrall

3.69

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Dive into the curious correspondence of Sylvie Cathrall’s delightful debut novel, A Letter to the L… read more

Similar categories in Sylvie Cathrall's A Letter to the Luminous Deep book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

6. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

Cover of Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

7. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Cover of Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1) by Mai Corland

8. Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)

By: Mai Corland

3.84

Format: 474 pages, Hardcover

It’s the season for treason… The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in th… read more

Similar categories in Mai Corland's Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"In short: I'm awake, hungry, and doomed. -Sora"

-Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)

"I hoped. And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishment of them all."

-Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)

"When Yuri said it was a girl, I hoped. And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishm…"

-Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)

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9. Running Close to the Wind

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Running Close to the Wind book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

Cover of Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1) by Genoveva Dimova

12. Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

By: Genoveva Dimova

3.97

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured… read more

Similar categories in Genoveva Dimova's Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every self-respecting witch had a few battle scars."

-Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

"He had the spine of a snake and the moral compass of a vulture."

-Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

Cover of Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan

13. Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

3.96

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

A TALE FOR EVERYONE WHO’S EVER FALLEN FOR THE VILLAIN… When her whole life collapsed, Rae still… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rees Brennan's Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Is my mother right?"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"I love you as a knife loves a throat,"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"An anti-hero was just a villain with good PR"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"Key shrugged. “If you ask me, she’s too good for him."

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

Cover of The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde

14. The Wren in the Holly Library

By: K.A. Linde

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Can you love the dark when you know what it hides? Some things aren’t supposed to exist outside … read more

Similar categories in K.A. Linde's The Wren in the Holly Library book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. The Spellshop

By: Sarah Beth Durst

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Spellshop book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • cozy mystery
  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"She was lonely, and she wanted someone to love. She made me out of love, and the empire destroyed her for it."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"There was something so very beautiful about a notebook without a single note in it. It felt like touching pure potential."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"I hope you know what you're doing" Caz said as he returned. "I absolutely do not know what I'm doing. I thought that was clear?"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

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18. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2) by Megan Bannen

19. The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2)

By: Megan Bannen

4.15

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy comes a heartwarming fantasy with a best frien… read more

Similar categories in Megan Bannen's The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1) by India Holton

20. The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)

By: India Holton

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-co… read more

Similar categories in India Holton's The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

21. Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)

By: Hannah Nicole Maehrer

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN―featuring spray-painted edges, while supplies last in the US and Canada onl… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Nicole Maehrer's Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2) book and Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There had to be a rule somewhere that evil overlords needed to be at least fifty, maybe sixty if they were pushing it."

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)

"Sometimes family isn't a thing we are born into but a choice we make. Sometimes" -Evie smiled-"the people who love ypu most in your life are the ones who choose you."

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)

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