14 Best magic books like Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1) by Intisar Khanani

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Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

By: Intisar Khanani

4.00

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

A princess with two futures. A destiny all her own. Between her cruel family and the contempt sh…

"It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe."

-Intisar Khanani, Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

If you liked the magic plot in Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1) by Intisar Khanani , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)

By: Shannon Hale

3.91

Format: None pages,

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, spends the first years of her life un… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Hale's The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

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2. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

By: Axie Oh

4.11

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, whil… read more

Similar categories in Axie Oh's The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, only through a story can a truth be heard."

-Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

"My grandfather understood the comfort there is in shared silence."

-Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

"Sometimes I can be thoughtless. And I like to tease. But you can depend upon me."

-Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

"I don't think love can be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given."

-Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

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3. A Crane Among Wolves

By: June Hur

4.03

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace, crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that w… read more

Similar categories in June Hur's A Crane Among Wolves book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"What need has the king for a thousand courtesans? I cannot possibly imgaine wanting a thousand husbands." "Because rape - "He flicked an uneasy glance my way, as though afraid to offend my womanly se…"

-June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves

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4. Echo North (Echo North, #1)

By: Joanna Ruth Meyer

3.83

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city a… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Ruth Meyer's Echo North (Echo North, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What others see in you reflects upon them not you"

-Joanna Ruth Meyer, Echo North (Echo North, #1)

"I was brave. I was foolish. I went to help him without another thought."

-Joanna Ruth Meyer, Echo North (Echo North, #1)

"Everyone is searching for their true selves. But everyone hides their trues selves from others."

-Joanna Ruth Meyer, Echo North (Echo North, #1)

"There is one magic older than the Wolf Queen's, a magic not even she can defeat." "Love," I say quietly."

-Joanna Ruth Meyer, Echo North (Echo North, #1)

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5. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

By: Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

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6. Rise of the Vicious Princess (Rise of the Vicious Princess, #1)

By: C.J. Redwine

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first in a YA political fantasy duology about a fierce princess determined to bring lasting pea… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Redwine's Rise of the Vicious Princess (Rise of the Vicious Princess, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I promise you do not want me as your enemy."

-C.J. Redwine, Rise of the Vicious Princess (Rise of the Vicious Princess, #1)

"You'll run, and I'll be the shadow at your back"

-C.J. Redwine, Rise of the Vicious Princess (Rise of the Vicious Princess, #1)

"Be smarter. Strike harder. Never falter, never waver, never break."

-C.J. Redwine, Rise of the Vicious Princess (Rise of the Vicious Princess, #1)

"If you ever disparage my father again, I will kill you myself. And I'll make sure it hurts."

-C.J. Redwine, Rise of the Vicious Princess (Rise of the Vicious Princess, #1)

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7. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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8. A Fragile Enchantment

By: Allison Saft

3.53

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical … read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Fragile Enchantment book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You're like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer."

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

"it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!"

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

Cover of This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1) by Tahereh Mafi

9. This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)

By: Tahereh Mafi

3.96

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-forgotten queen destined to save her people—Tahereh… read more

Similar categories in Tahereh Mafi's This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Are you some kind of Diviner?"

-Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)

"I choose you," he said simply. "I want youj."

-Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)

"Never before had he been so consumed by the thoughts of anyone."

-Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)

"I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again"

-Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)

Cover of Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) by Nicki Pau Preto

10. Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

By: Nicki Pau Preto

4.21

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a d… read more

Similar categories in Nicki Pau Preto's Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We go in," Wren said with more confidence than she felt. But that, she had learned, was the way confidence worked."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn’t it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn't it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"He wasn’t disappointed or hurt. He was livid. Let him be. She’d take the rage of the living over the silence of the dead any day."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

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11. The Drowned Woods

By: Emily Lloyd-Jones

3.87

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Me… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lloyd-Jones's The Drowned Woods book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

By: Intisar Khanani

4.00

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

A princess with two futures. A destiny all her own. Between her cruel family and the contempt sh… read more

Similar categories in Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe."

-Intisar Khanani, Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

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13. Her Radiant Curse

By: Elizabeth Lim

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of SIX CRIMSON CRANES comes a tale of two sisters—one as… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Lim's Her Radiant Curse book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

By: Elizabeth Lim

3.79

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

A journey to the kingdom of dragons, a star-crossed love, and a cursed pearl with the power to mend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Lim's The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Even chaos has its place."

-Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

"I’m not leaving you. I promise."

-Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

"Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart."

-Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

"Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere."

-Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

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15. Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

By: Margaret Owen

4.26

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given,… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Owen's Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"- Sometimes you just have to throw spatzle at the wall and see what sticks. - You absolutely do not. That is how you get ruined spatzle."

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"-I cannot tell you how many principles of knife safety you are violating right now. -Where's your sense of adventure? -When it comes to stab wounds? On indefinite sabbatical."

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"There’s just so much I could be stealing right now if I didn’t have social obligations with the man who tried to poison me earlier in the week. And if it weren’t for the curse. And, I suppose, the la…"

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"I see myself for what I am: a scared girl, alone in a cruel world, abandoned by family and friend, who would rather turn herself to bloodstained stone than let anyone get close enough to leave anothe…"

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

Cover of The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1) by Kylie Lee Baker

16. The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

By: Kylie Lee Baker

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold a… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Lee Baker's The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Your ducks weren't rude to me. I don't want to eat them." "I do." Yufei whispered..."

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

"I am offended,"" he said, making a show of crossing his arms and turning away. ""I may forgive you if you kiss me, though."

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

"Ahead of us, a man was pulling a cart of cabbages out into the street. I grabbed three chunks of amethyst in one hand and slammed my other palm into the cart. It burst in to wood splinters, cabbage l…"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

"Uncle Fan had busied himself making lots of míngqì to bury them with—soft baby lambs and tiny ponies and wise teachers. They will be well taken care of, where they’re going, he’d said. My cousins gre…"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

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17. Painted Devils (Little Thieves, #2)

By: Margaret Owen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Let’s get one thing straight—Vanja Schmidt wasn’t trying to start a cult. After taking down a co… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Owen's Painted Devils (Little Thieves, #2) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1) by Elizabeth Lim

18. Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

By: Elizabeth Lim

4.20

Format: 454 pages, ebook

A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse... S… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1) book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Let’s play a game,"

-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

"Curiosity was my greatest weakness."

-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

"Fear is just a game. You win by playing."

-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

"You are my daughter, not of my blood, but of my heart."

-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

Cover of The Herbwitch's Apprentice (Witches of Olderea, #1) by Ireen Chau

19. 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 Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
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20. Sleep Like Death

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron returns to fairytales with a l… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's Sleep Like Death book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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21. The Antidote

By: Shelley Sackier

3.29

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Magic is not allowed, under any circumstances — even if it could save someone’s life. Instead, ther… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Sackier's The Antidote book and Intisar Khanani's Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy

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