21 best-selling fantasy books like Into the Heartless Wood by Joanna Ruth Meyer

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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…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Into the Heartless Wood by Joanna Ruth Meyer , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Bone Houses

By: Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.00

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family, and her family's graveya… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lloyd-Jones's The Bone Houses book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"There were some pains so old they were almost a comfort."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"Perhaps she could draw memories of him from these people like water from a well."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"Atop the barn's roof, a lone chicken sat watching as figures began to emerge from the forest."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know ho…"

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

Cover of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

2. 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

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"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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3. 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 Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"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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4. 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 Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"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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5. 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

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"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

Cover of A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid

6. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

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

7. 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 Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • magic
  • 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)

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

8. 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 Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"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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9. 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 Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"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 The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

10. 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 Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

11. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

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12. Flowerheart

By: Catherine Bakewell

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Clara’s magic has always been wild. But it’s never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poiso… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Bakewell's Flowerheart book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"The goal was not to subdue one's anger or shame, but rather to embrace it. Control was not the objective; freedom was. (Chapter 16, page 220)"

-Catherine Bakewell, Flowerheart

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13. The Nature of Witches

By: Rachel Griffin

3.82

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Griffin's The Nature of Witches book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • paranormal
Cover of What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) by Isabel Ibañez

14. What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

By: Isabel Ibañez

3.90

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Bue… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Ibañez's What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Is this it, Whit?"

-Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

Cover of Into the Heartless Wood by Joanna Ruth Meyer

15. 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

Similar categories in Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • paranormal
Cover of The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

16. The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.16

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul. Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark … read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales, #1) book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna  Bright

17. The Hedgewitch of Foxhall

By: Anna Bright

3.73

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous stand-alone fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bright's The Hedgewitch of Foxhall book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
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18. 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 Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magic
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
Cover of Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause

19. Before the Devil Knows You're Here

By: Autumn Krause

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously dark folk horror for fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Erin Craig, blending the tall tale… read more

Similar categories in Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Curses could be broken, yes, but they left scars. Not simply the sort made from dead flesh, but the sort formed over a nerve so that an ache is always there, just beneath the skin."

-Autumn Krause, Before the Devil Knows You're Here

Cover of Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

20. Lucy Undying

By: Kiersten White

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on h… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Lucy Undying book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

  • romance
  • retellings
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
Cover of Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee

21. Legend of the White Snake

By: Sher Lee

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A snake spirit transforms into a boy and must hide his true identity after falling for a headstrong… read more

Similar categories in Sher Lee's Legend of the White Snake book and Joanna Ruth Meyer's Into the Heartless Wood

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

20 best-selling fiction books like Into the Heartless Wood by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Transform Your Habits

The Bone Houses

Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

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

Erin A. Craig

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Small Favors

Erin A. Craig

4.03

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21 best-selling fiction books like Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

Transform Your Habits

The Bone Houses

Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Small Favors

Erin A. Craig

4.03

Transform Your Habits

One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

Rachel Gillig

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)

Rachel Gillig

4.44

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