18 best-selling young adult fantasy books like The Girl King (The Girl King, #1) by Mimi Yu

The Girl King (The Girl King, #1)

By: Mimi Yu

3.57

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Two sisters become unwitting rivals in a war to claim the title of Emperor in this sweeping tale of…

If you liked the young adult fantasy plot in The Girl King (The Girl King, #1) by Mimi Yu , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn't (Parasol Protectorate, #0.5)

By: Gail Carriger

3.62

Format: 32 pages, ebook

A short tale of mummies, werewolves, and well preserved felines set in the world of the Parasol Pro… read more

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fantasy
paranormal
fiction

2. The Geek Feminist Revolution

By: Kameron Hurley

3.32

Format: 344 pages,

A powerful collection of essays on feminism, geek culture, and a writer's journey, from one of the … read more

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3. The Traitor Prince (Ravenspire, #3)

By: C.J. Redwine

4.18

Format: 407 pages, ebook

Javan Najafai, crown prince of Akram, has spent the last ten years at an elite boarding school, far… read more

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romance
young adult
young adult fantasy
fiction
fantasy

4. Spartan Frost (Mythos Academy, #4.5)

By: Jennifer Estep

3.91

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Estep blends the perfect amount of action, romance and comedy. --"RT Book Reviews " I'm Logan Quinn… read more

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5. Sparks Rise (The Darkest Minds #2.5)

By: Alexandra Bracken

3.20

Format: None pages, ebook

Don't miss the thrilling novella that connects the last two novels in the New York Timesbest-sellin… read more

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6. Nothing but Trouble

By: Jacqueline Davies

3.60

Format: None pages, ebook

Odawahaka has always been too small for Maggie's big scientific ideas. Between her stuck-in-a-rut m… read more

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7. Eden Conquered (Dividing Eden, #2)

By: Joelle Charbonneau

3.72

Format: 315 pages, ebook

The electrifying conclusion to the Dividing Eden series by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

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romance
adventure
magic
young adult
high fantasy
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young adult fantasy
fantasy
paranormal

8. A Treason of Thorns

By: Laura E. Weymouth

3.44

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Violet Sterling has spent the last seven years in exile, longing to return to Burleigh House. One o… read more

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magic
young adult
young adult fantasy
fiction
fantasy

9. The Cursed Sea (The Glass Spare, #2)

By: Lauren DeStefano

3.76

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Wilhemina Heidle, the exiled princess of Northern Arrod, the girl thought dead by her family and fr… read more

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romance
magic
young adult
high fantasy
fiction
young adult fantasy
fantasy

"I was taught to speak and write a dozen languages, but there isn't a word for what you mean to me."
-Lauren DeStefano, The Cursed Sea (The Glass Spare, #2)

10. Angel Mage

By: Garth Nix

3.63

Format: 576 pages, ebook

More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, … read more

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magic
young adult
high fantasy
fiction
young adult fantasy
fantasy
paranormal

11. Unraveller

By: Frances Hardinge

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Fra… read more

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adventure
magic
young adult
young adult fantasy
fiction
fantasy

"I don't think about "being happy" unless I'm with you, and then I never am. Humans are never happy."
-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller
"Changing a law is like digging a new field. You'll break ancient roots and blunt your spade with a lot of stones, but eventually plants will grow in your furrows, and your new hedge will thrive and i…"
-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller
"You'd know you were a boy, so she would too. If someone knows they're a man or boy, that's what matters. Outside appearences aren't important. It's what's inside that counts—who we are in our souls. …"
-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller
"You'd be better at it than me' he told Nettle when he visited her. 'This sort of Unravelling doesn't feel like I'm using a magical gift. Sometimes it's like I'm a ghost walking alongside somebody on …"
-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

12. Muse (Muse, #1)

By: Brittany Cavallaro

3.30

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

An alternate history American monarchy where a girl grapples for control of her own life in the mid… read more

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fantasy
fiction
young adult fantasy
young adult

13. Empress of All Seasons

By: Emiko Jean

3.56

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a palace of illusions, nothing is what it seems. Each generation, a competition is held to fi… read more

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romance
magic
young adult
high fantasy
fiction
young adult fantasy
asian literature
fantasy

"Every weapon has a destiny."
-Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons
"Silence is the cousin of invisibility."
-Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons
"Do not let your fear decide your fate."
-Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons
"Our bodies are not ornaments, they are instruments."
-Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

14. Crown of Oblivion

By: Julie Eshbaugh

3.50

Format: 496 pages, ebook

Astrid is the surrogate for Princess Renya, which means she bears the physical punishment if Renya … read more

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magic
young adult
young adult fantasy
high fantasy
fiction
fantasy

"Stars are for people safe enough to enjoy them."
-Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion
"I will change my tomorrows with what I do today. With what I do right now."
-Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion
"I will change my tomorrows with what I do today. With what I do right now. - Astrid"
-Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion
"If I told you monsters could be tamed, would you want to live with monsters? Even a tame monster is still a monster."
-Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion

15. First Don (Ardulum, #1)

By: J.S. Fields

3.96

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Ardulum. The planet that vanishes. The planet that sleeps. Neek makes a living piloting the dila… read more

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fantasy
fiction

16. Sherwood

By: Meagan Spooner

3.70

Format: 496 pages, ebook

Fans of Danielle Paige, Marissa Meyer, and Alex Flinn will devour New York Times bestselling author… read more

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romance
young adult
young adult fantasy
fiction
fantasy

"Such a deadly thing, a feather."
-Meagan Spooner, Sherwood
"But arrows are winged creatures."
-Meagan Spooner, Sherwood
"Who are you to say that being a lady, in itself, is not its own kind of war."
-Meagan Spooner, Sherwood
"Radical and insurgent and impatient. Those qualities sound more like you, my love."
-Meagan Spooner, Sherwood

17. The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch

By: Garth Nix

3.92

Format: 34 pages, ebook

A new short story from Garth Nix, best-selling author of the Old Kingdom series.In this raucous, st… read more

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fantasy
fiction

18. The Vanishing Deep

By: Astrid Scholte

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Tempe was born into a world of water. When the Great Waves destroyed her planet,… read more

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fantasy
fiction
young adult fantasy
young adult

"Palindrome—a word, number, phrase, or sequence of symbols or elements whose meaning can be interpreted the same way both forward and in reverse. We begin as we end; we end as we begin. That is life. …"
-Astrid Scholte, The Vanishing Deep

19. The Girl King (The Girl King, #1)

By: Mimi Yu

3.57

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Two sisters become unwitting rivals in a war to claim the title of Emperor in this sweeping tale of… read more

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romance
adventure
magic
young adult
high fantasy
fiction
young adult fantasy
asian literature
fantasy
paranormal

20. Red Hood

By: Elana K. Arnold

3.45

Format: 368 pages, ebook

You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are … read more

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young adult
young adult fantasy
fiction
paranormal
fantasy

21. Trouble the Saints

By: Alaya Dawn Johnson

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Undergroun… read more

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fantasy
fiction

22. Red Tigress (Blood Heir Trilogy, #2)

By: Amélie Wen Zhao

3.92

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Fans of Children of Blood and Bone will love the sequel to Blood Heir. The second book in an epic f… read more

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romance
magic
young adult
high fantasy
fiction
young adult fantasy
fantasy

"Novo Mynsk reeked of death."
-Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress (Blood Heir Trilogy, #2)
"Monsters make the most powerful weapon in the arsenal."
-Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress (Blood Heir Trilogy, #2)
" I am afraid, Ama-ka." "That, my daughter, is when you can choose [...] to be brave. "
-Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress (Blood Heir Trilogy, #2)
"I know how it feels, to be trapped. But if there is anything I have learned, it is that you can always make a choice."
-Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress (Blood Heir Trilogy, #2)

23. Steel Tide (Seafire, #2)

By: Natalie C. Parker

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The second book in a heart-stopping trilogy that follows the captain of an all-female ship intent o… read more

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adventure
young adult
young adult fantasy
fiction
fantasy

"You will always fail to lose me."
-Natalie C. Parker, Steel Tide (Seafire, #2)
"She wanted it so keenly that a spark of hope wedged between her ribs like one of those stars, glimmering against all reason."
-Natalie C. Parker, Steel Tide (Seafire, #2)

24. The Dragon Warrior (The Dragon Warrior, #1)

By: Katie Zhao

4.04

Format: 288 pages, ebook

As a member of the Jade Society, twelve-year-old Faryn Liu dreams of honoring her family and the go… read more

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adventure
magic
young adult
fiction
fantasy

25. The Candle and the Flame

By: Nafiza Azad

3.75

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Fatima lives in the city of Noor, a thriving stop along the Silk Road. There the music of myriad la… read more

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magic
young adult
high fantasy
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young adult fantasy
fantasy

"The desert sings of loss, always loss, and if you stand quiet with your eyes closed, it will grieve you too."
-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame
"The desert has been a balm to all her hurts. This place with its emptiness and the promise of heat glimmering underneath the sand."
-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame
"I wonder what you see in him," Fatima muses. "Apart from his excellent muezzin abilities, you mean?" Adila says. "The symmetry of his face moves me." Azizah sniffs."
-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame
"Aren't you cold" Zulfikar shrugs off the plain black shawl he had around his shoulders and wraps it around Fatima Ghazala. "It smells like you," she says, drawing it close around her. "I didn't need …"
-Nafiza Azad, The Candle and the Flame

26. The Bitterwine Oath

By: Hannah West

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every fifty years, a cult claims twelve men to murder in a small Texas town. Can one girl end the c… read more

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romance
young adult
fiction
paranormal
fantasy

27. Kanin: The Complete Chronicles (Kanin Chronicles #1-3)

By: Amanda Hocking

4.23

Format: 1038 pages, Paperback

Discover the magical world of the Trylle, with the complete New York Times bestselling Kanin Chroni… read more

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romance
young adult
young adult fantasy
fiction
fantasy

28. Cast in Atonement (Chronicles of Elantra, #18)

By: Michelle Sagara

4.49

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In the City of Elantra, only one holds the key to peace—or eternal darkness. At the end of three… read more

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magic
fantasy
paranormal

29. Redeemer (The Redeemer Chronicles #1)

By: C.E. Murphy

4.07

Format: 439 pages, ebook

July, 1945. Soldiers are coming home from the war...and monsters come with them. THE REDEEMER Rosi… read more

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fantasy

30. The Beast Warrior (The Beast Player, #3-4)

By: Nahoko Uehashi

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after the fateful clash between two opposing sides of the Divine Kingdom of Lyoza, Elin l… read more

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young adult
high fantasy
fiction
young adult fantasy
asian literature
fantasy

31. Othello (No Fear Shakespeare)

By: SparkNotes

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

This No Fear Shakespeare ebook gives you the complete text of Othelloand an easy-to-understand tran… read more

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young adult