24 best-selling fantasy books like Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5) by Melissa Albert

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Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

By: Melissa Albert

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve fairy tales by the author of The Hazel Wood and The N…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5) by Melissa Albert , here is a list of 24 books like this:

1. Girl Last Seen

By: Anne Greenwood Brown , Heather Anastasiu

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Kadence Mulligan's star was rising. She and her best friend, Lauren DeSanto, watched their songs go… read more

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2. Fairies: Real Encounters With Little People

By: Janet Bord

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hordes of tiny people playing at a spot in Wales called "Fairies Bog"...an impossibly tiny shoe fou… read more

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3. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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4. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

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  • fairy tales
  • magic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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5. House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)

By: Erin A. Craig

4.14

Format: 544 pages, Library Binding

A modern masterpiece, this is a classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from New York Times bestselling aut… read more

Similar categories in Erin A. Craig's House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2) book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Besides, what else am I meant to be doing? I didn't laze around in life and I certainly wasn't going to start in death."

-Erin A. Craig, House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)

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6. Small Favors

By: Erin A. Craig

4.03

Format: 466 pages, Hardcover

Ellerie Downing lives in the quiet town of Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range--five narro… read more

Similar categories in Erin A. Craig's Small Favors book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"There's a power in names, don't you think? Once your name is given away, you can't help but be pulled along by those who have it."

-Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

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7. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

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  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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8. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

Cover of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

9. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

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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 Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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)

Cover of The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2) by Holly Black

11. The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

By: Holly Black

3.91

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

An imprisoned prince. A vengeful queen. And a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame.   … read more

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  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Some broken things stay broken"

-Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

"Pain is better than being dead."

-Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

"Would you consider actually marrying me?"

-Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

"Felicitations on the murder of your mother."

-Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)

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12. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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13. Hotel Magnifique

By: Emily J. Taylor

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Caraval and The Night Circus, this decadent and darkly enchanting YA fantasy, set again… read more

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  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You're not nothing to me," he said, almost to himself. "That's precisely the problem."

-Emily J. Taylor, Hotel Magnifique

"Produce an invitation and I'll eat that ruffled atrocity of a hat." "Then get a fork and give me five minutes."

-Emily J. Taylor, Hotel Magnifique

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14. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: Tori Bovalino

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

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15. The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

By: John Connolly

3.91

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . . Phoebe, an eight-year-old… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They were books speaking to other books, which was what books did, because no book was ever created in isolation, and literature was a long, ongoing conversation between stories."

-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

"To do nothing in the face of another's misfortune is to be no better than those who might have caused it to begin with, and the measure of the best of us is that we can correctly measure our own inco…"

-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

"Raging against it, or despairing, would not change anything. The past does not imprison us. We may offer ourselves up as its captives, but equally, we can choose to open the cell door and walk free. …"

-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

"You have to love not one dog, but all dogs," he would explain to Ceres. "You only have them for a short time, you see. To them it's a lifetime, while for you it's never long enough. So you love each …"

-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)

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16. Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

By: Melissa Albert

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve fairy tales by the author of The Hazel Wood and The N… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5) book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • fairy tales
  • magic
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Into the Heartless Wood

By: Joanna Ruth Meyer

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centurie… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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18. At Midnight

By: Dahlia Adler

3.42

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weav… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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19. 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

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  • fairy tales
  • magic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Our Divine Mischief

By: Hanna Howard

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping YA fantasy inspired by Scottish history and folklore, Our Divine Mischief takes readers … read more

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  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Dziewczyna, którą zapomniano by Melka Kowal

21. Dziewczyna, którą zapomniano

By: Melka Kowal

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

GDY JUŻ STRACIŁAŚ WSZYSTKO, MUSISZ PRZEDE WSZYSTKIM ODZYSKAĆ SIEBIE Kiedy Sara odzyskuje przytom… read more

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  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Creatures of Want and Ruin (Diabolist's Library, #2) by Molly Tanzer

22. Creatures of Want and Ruin (Diabolist's Library, #2)

By: Molly Tanzer

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Amityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night. It's dangerous work u… read more

Similar categories in Molly Tanzer's Creatures of Want and Ruin (Diabolist's Library, #2) book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Kadry niedogaszonych wspomnień (Aspen i Joyce, #2) by Remigiusz Mróz

23. Kadry niedogaszonych wspomnień (Aspen i Joyce, #2)

By: Remigiusz Mróz

3.81

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Pół roku po tym, jak Grayson Joyce znikł z jej życia, Aspen wciąż nie potrafi o nim zapomnieć. Odna… read more

Similar categories in Remigiusz Mróz's Kadry niedogaszonych wspomnień (Aspen i Joyce, #2) book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Puzzle House (The Dragon Prince Graphic Novel #3) by Peter Wartman

24. Puzzle House (The Dragon Prince Graphic Novel #3)

By: Peter Wartman

4.05

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Fans won't want to miss this original canon story set in the world of the Emmy® Award-winning Netfl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Wartman's Puzzle House (The Dragon Prince Graphic Novel #3) book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • magic
  • young adult
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25. Pokojówka

By: Wiktoria Lange

2.59

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Dwudziestotrzyletnia Melanie Green mieszka w Nowym Jorku i jest pokojówką w jednym z hoteli znanej … read more

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26. The Confidence Games

By: Tess Amy

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two female con artists must pull off the ultimate heist in this rollicking caper from a dazzling ne… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Deceptive Calm

By: Patricia Skipper

3.00

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Against the turbulent backdrop of declared martial law in South Carolina, a stunning light-skinned … read more

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  • fiction
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28. Ratty

By: Suzanne Selfors

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

At once heartbreaking and heartwarming, bestselling author Suzanne Selfor's newest tale is about th… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Selfors's Ratty book and Melissa Albert's Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

  • magic
  • fantasy
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29. Stalking Shadows

By: Cyla Panin

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A gothic YA fantasy debut about a young woman striving to break her sister’s curse and stop the kil… read more

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  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

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Seanan McGuire

4.09

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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Erin A. Craig

4.14

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Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.00

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Erin A. Craig

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Rachel Gillig

4.30

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