10 best-selling retellings books like The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon Wallwork

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The Enchanted Sonata

By: Heather Dixon Wallwork

4.04

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Clara Stahlbaum has her future perfectly planned: to marry the handsome pianist, Johann Kahler (ah!…

"Oh, thank you!"

-Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

"For when the world was darkest, I remembered you."

-Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

"Why Do Fairies Let Bad Things Happen to Good People?"

-Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

If you liked the retellings plot in The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon Wallwork , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan

1. The Ice Palace

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more

Similar categories in Tarjei Vesaas's The Ice Palace book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

Cover of Icefields by Thomas Wharton

2. Icefields

By: Thomas Wharton

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Winner of: The Banff Grand National Prize for Literature The Writers Guild of Alberta Best First … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Wharton's Icefields book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Dollmaker of Krakow by R.M. Romero

3. The Dollmaker of Krakow

By: R.M. Romero

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's The Dollmaker of Krakow book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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4. Snow & Rose

By: Emily Winfield Martin

4.04

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times bestselling author-illustrator brings readers into the woods to meet two young sis… read more

Similar categories in Emily Winfield Martin's Snow & Rose book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Rose pictured herself as a tidy bow, and Snow was a wild tangle."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"A feeling of celebration spread through the woods as the changed ones found their long-forgotten voices"

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader ."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

Cover of The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin by Suzanne Weyn

5. The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin

By: Suzanne Weyn

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS The year is 1880, and Bertie, having just arrived in New York with h… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Weyn's The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ralph Manheim, Maurice Sendak

6. Nutcracker

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more

Similar categories in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • fairy tales
  • christmas
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. Resistance (Ilyon Chronicles, #1)

By: Jaye L. Knight

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Don't you know? Animals like you have no soul." Could God ever love a half-blood all of society lo… read more

Similar categories in Jaye L. Knight's Resistance (Ilyon Chronicles, #1) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult

8. Once There Was a War

By: John Steinbeck

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new … read more

Similar categories in John Steinbeck's Once There Was a War book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

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9. Ember and the Ice Dragons

By: Heather Fawcett

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Ember St. George is a dragon. At least she was before her adoptive father—a powerful but accident-p… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Ember and the Ice Dragons book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"This far north, the wind was woven with frost even at midsummer."

-Heather Fawcett, Ember and the Ice Dragons

"Half the size of Lionel's palm, it glittered with a color richer than rubies, deeper than amber, and threaded with veins like fired gold."

-Heather Fawcett, Ember and the Ice Dragons

"Half the size of Lionel's palm, it glittered with a coloraturas richer than rubies, deeper than amber, and threaded with veins like fired gold."

-Heather Fawcett, Ember and the Ice Dragons

"The wood was her favourite place, for it was also where you could find foxes and hares and slowworms and at least ten species of birds. She could sit for hours in the treetops, observing owls chasing…"

-Heather Fawcett, Ember and the Ice Dragons

Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

10. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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11. A Castle in the Clouds

By: Kerstin Gier

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Castle in the Clouds follows a girl as she navigates secrets, romance, and danger in an aging gra… read more

Similar categories in Kerstin Gier's A Castle in the Clouds book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • holiday
  • young adult
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Sie sagten, dass einem niemand das Zuhause nehmen kann, wenn man in sich selbst zu Hause ist. Und dass man alles in sich trägt, was man braucht, um überall glücklich zu sein."

-Kerstin Gier, A Castle in the Clouds

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12. Midnight in Everwood

By: M.A. Kuzniar

3.56

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There’s nothing Marietta Stelle loves more than ballet, but after Christmas, her dreams will be ove… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Kuzniar's Midnight in Everwood book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • retellings
  • holiday
  • young adult
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Magic is without reason."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood

"It is in the stars that we shall meet again."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood

"Ballet resides in your bones; it courses through your blood. For a dancer, it is the very essence of our identity, stripped down to its rawest, most intrinsic parts; you cannot leave it behind no mor…"

-M.A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood

Cover of The Pirate King's Thief (Realm of Dragons and Fae #3) by Alisha Klapheke

13. The Pirate King's Thief (Realm of Dragons and Fae #3)

By: Alisha Klapheke

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Loosely inspired by The Princess Bride, this standalone romantasy will delight readers who love the… read more

Similar categories in Alisha Klapheke's The Pirate King's Thief (Realm of Dragons and Fae #3) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fantasy
Cover of Mortal Queens (The Fae Dynasty, #1) by Victoria McCombs

14. Mortal Queens (The Fae Dynasty, #1)

By: Victoria McCombs

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"They vanish without a trace, disappear into the night . . . Each year on the center island, one… read more

Similar categories in Victoria McCombs's Mortal Queens (The Fae Dynasty, #1) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1) by Lindsay A. Franklin

15. The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1)

By: Lindsay A. Franklin

4.11

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Selling stories is a deadly business Tanwen doesn’t just tell stories—she weaves them into cryst… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay A. Franklin's The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Art has a way of revealing truth."

-Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1)

"Being in love... well, that's the biggest kind of brave there is." "Why's that?" "Because you have to be strong enough to get your heart broken every day."

-Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1)

"Most people’s lives were stories with mysterious endings. Mine was a story with a beginning I could never make sense of. It was like fifty different unrelated strands I couldn’t weave into a solid cr…"

-Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1)

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16. The Story Raider (The Weaver Trilogy, #2)

By: Lindsay A. Franklin

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Deceiving an empire is a treacherous game. Tanwen and the Corsyth weavers race to collect the st… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay A. Franklin's The Story Raider (The Weaver Trilogy, #2) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Hope is never lost as long as you're willing to fight for it"

-Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Raider (The Weaver Trilogy, #2)

Cover of The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1) by Sara Ella

17. The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

By: Sara Ella

4.18

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Solve the clues. Face your fears. Survive the Trials. All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her N… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ella's The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"How is the world inside your mind any less real than the one outside it?"

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

"Wonderland is what we imagine it to be, he says. You can become anything. Go anywhere. That's the magic of the Gene."

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

"But it is when we are not ourselves that believing in the impossible - in the unseen - becomes most vital. We must believe in something beyond you or I."

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

Cover of The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon Wallwork

18. The Enchanted Sonata

By: Heather Dixon Wallwork

4.04

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Clara Stahlbaum has her future perfectly planned: to marry the handsome pianist, Johann Kahler (ah!… read more

Similar categories in Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • holiday
  • young adult
  • christmas
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Oh, thank you!"

-Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

"For when the world was darkest, I remembered you."

-Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

"Why Do Fairies Let Bad Things Happen to Good People?"

-Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

Cover of The Beggar Prince by Kate Stradling

19. The Beggar Prince

By: Kate Stradling

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

An unwilling suitor. A mocking princess. A marriage they both abhor. Diplomacy and a demanding … read more

Similar categories in Kate Stradling's The Beggar Prince book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Herbwitch's Apprentice (Witches of Olderea, #1) by Ireen Chau

20. The Herbwitch's Apprentice (Witches of Olderea, #1)

By: Ireen Chau

4.14

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

This edition contains 27 original illustrations by the author! In the kingdom of Olderea, dabbli… read more

Similar categories in Ireen Chau's The Herbwitch's Apprentice (Witches of Olderea, #1) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Upon a Frosted Star by M.A. Kuzniar

21. Upon a Frosted Star

By: M.A. Kuzniar

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When the snow falls, she will be free… The invitations always arrive the same way – without warn… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Kuzniar's Upon a Frosted Star book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • retellings
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"...magic does not belong solely to the young."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"...all I want, all I could ever need, is you."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"A life was so fragile, spun from magic impossible to understand..."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"For their was no finer family than the one you had chosen yourself."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

Cover of The Reluctant Godfather (The Tales of Ambia, #1) by Allison Tebo

22. The Reluctant Godfather (The Tales of Ambia, #1)

By: Allison Tebo

4.22

Format: 127 pages, None

Burndee is a young and cantankerous fairy godfather, who would rather bake cakes than help humans. … read more

Similar categories in Allison Tebo's The Reluctant Godfather (The Tales of Ambia, #1) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"What other lost soul has the misfortune to have you as their fairy godfather?"

-Allison Tebo, The Reluctant Godfather (The Tales of Ambia, #1)

"My father says it's high time I...produce an heir." "Oh...I'm good, but I'm not that good. Unless we steal a baby—"

-Allison Tebo, The Reluctant Godfather (The Tales of Ambia, #1)

"Neat' was the highest superlative possible from Burndee and it was not a word that he often used...unless he was describing something he had done. 'Neat'--without even 'very' or 'really' attached to …"

-Allison Tebo, The Reluctant Godfather (The Tales of Ambia, #1)

"And I think you’re wrong, Burndee. Humans do have recipes, but just like baking, there’s that little surprise in there. Why, the two things are so similar, I would think you should enjoy being a fair…"

-Allison Tebo, The Reluctant Godfather (The Tales of Ambia, #1)

Cover of To Ride the Wind: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 1) by Melanie Cellier

23. To Ride the Wind: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 1)

By: Melanie Cellier

4.46

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlotte has always longed to be accepted by her older sisters. She would gladly exchange her vaun… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Cellier's To Ride the Wind: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 1) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Rose Gate: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (Faerie Tale Romances) by Hanna Sandvig

24. The Rose Gate: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (Faerie Tale Romances)

By: Hanna Sandvig

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, a girl from our world found a gate to the Faerie realm...All Isobel wants is a qu… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Sandvig's The Rose Gate: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (Faerie Tale Romances) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Ignite (Volume 1) (The Phoenix Flame) by Kara Swanson

25. Ignite (Volume 1) (The Phoenix Flame)

By: Kara Swanson

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Can Mara survive in a world where the fire in her veins is worth killing for? In a frozen waste… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swanson's Ignite (Volume 1) (The Phoenix Flame) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of To Steal the Sun: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 2) by Melanie Cellier

26. To Steal the Sun: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 2)

By: Melanie Cellier

4.38

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Gwen has discovered both the love she once lost and her courage. But her greatest challenge still l… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Cellier's To Steal the Sun: A Retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Four Kingdoms Duology Book 2) book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
Cover of Winterdream by Chantal Gadoury

27. Winterdream

By: Chantal Gadoury

3.70

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

This Christmas Eve… no creature was stirring… Except, maybe, a mouse. At long last, can true… read more

Similar categories in Chantal Gadoury's Winterdream book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"I prefer paths undiscovered."

-Chantal Gadoury, Winterdream

"Can evil every truly be understood?"

-Chantal Gadoury, Winterdream

"Popularity and true friendship are two different things."

-Chantal Gadoury, Winterdream

"He may have a title, but it does not determine his true worth."

-Chantal Gadoury, Winterdream

Cover of Mercurial by Naomi Hughes

28. Mercurial

By: Naomi Hughes

3.93

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Snow, blood, and magic: this story is perfect for fans of the Grishaverse and The Winner's Kiss ser… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Hughes's Mercurial book and Heather Dixon Wallwork's The Enchanted Sonata

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy

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Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

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Thomas Wharton

3.54

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R.M. Romero

4.09

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Emily Winfield Martin

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