8 best-selling retellings books like The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1) by Menna Van Praag

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The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

By: Menna Van Praag

3.20

Format: 448 pages, ebook

The critically acclaimed author of The House at the End of Hope Street combines love, mystery, and …

"Scarlet often wondered about how it might feel to be loved for no special reason at all. Without trying to twist yourself into agreeable knots, without having to give what you might not want to give, safe in the knowledge that you were loved for just being your simple self."

-Menna Van Praag, The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

If you liked the retellings plot in The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1) by Menna Van Praag , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. War for the Oaks

By: Emma Bull

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Be… read more

Similar categories in Emma Bull's War for the Oaks book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves"

-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

"I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it."

-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

"I’ve told you that I’m a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight."

-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

"Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so."

-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

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2. The Nothing Girl

By: Jodi Taylor

2.00

Format: 238 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Jodi Taylor's The Nothing Girl book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. The Resurrectionist

By: James Bradley

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

London, 1826. Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwi… read more

Similar categories in James Bradley's The Resurrectionist book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

4. Super Happy Magic Forest

By: Matty Long

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A 2016 BCCB Blue Ribbon Award Winner and 2016 Booklist Editors' Choice! Welcome to the Super Happy … read more

Similar categories in Matty Long's Super Happy Magic Forest book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

5. Another Pan (The Marlowe School, #2)

By: Daniel Nayeri , Dina Nayeri

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling and her insecure freshman brother, John, are hitting the books at th… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Nayeri's Another Pan (The Marlowe School, #2) book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

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6. The Book Eaters

By: Sunyi Dean

3.64

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain al… read more

Similar categories in Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"None of us are truly good,"

-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

"How did one give shape to absence? Fill a black hole with light?"

-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

"Love has no cost for our children. Living or dead, here or gone."

-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

"I am not those people and I’m also not me. I can’t ever be me, I’m too full of other lives."

-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

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7. Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator

By: Patricia Wiltshire

3.60

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where natu… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wiltshire's Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • audiobook
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8. The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond (The House at the Edge of Magic, #3)

By: Amy Sparkes

4.18

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

Adventurous, magical and brilliantly funny next book in the House at the Edge of Magic series. N… read more

Similar categories in Amy Sparkes's The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond (The House at the Edge of Magic, #3) book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
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9. Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

By: Eliza Chan

3.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of r… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Chan's Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1) book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (Faebound, #1) book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Cage of Dreams (City of Nightmares Duology, 2)

By: Rebecca Schaeffer

3.78

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling sequel and conclusion to the City of Nightmares duology, Ness is forced to make a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Schaeffer's Cage of Dreams (City of Nightmares Duology, 2) book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Someone Like Me

By: M.R. Carey

3.64

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

She looks like me. She sounds like me. Now she's trying to take my place. Liz Kendall wouldn't h… read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Someone Like Me book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Every kid is born a fascist,"

-M.R. Carey, Someone Like Me

"Anything you can do, I can do better."

-M.R. Carey, Someone Like Me

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13. Cursed

By: Marie O'Regan

3.55

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Twenty curses, old and new, from bestselling fantasy authors such as Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler,… read more

Similar categories in Marie O'Regan's Cursed book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. The Light That Blinds Us

By: Andy Darcy Theo

3.81

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

When consumed by shadow, even the faintest light can be blinding... After a childhood haunted b… read more

Similar categories in Andy Darcy Theo's The Light That Blinds Us book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

By: Alex Grecian

3.80

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious stranger. A deadly task. A dark secret hidden for sixty years... When State Trooper… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's The Saint of Wolves and Butchers book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Moonstone

By: Laura Purcell

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning bestseller Laura Purcell comes her YA debut, MOONSTONE, a sparkling, chilling go… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's Moonstone book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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18. 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 Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • retellings
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"...all I want, all I could ever need, is you."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"...magic does not belong solely to the young."

-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

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19. Darkwood (Darkwood #1)

By: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Magic is forbidden in Myrsina, along with various other abominations, such as girls doing maths. Th… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Hutchinson Crouch's Darkwood (Darkwood #1) book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"People think any clever girl could be a witch. It happens to all of us."

-Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Darkwood (Darkwood #1)

"It may be an all-seeing Mirror and former king, but that doesn't mean that it's got people skills."

-Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Darkwood (Darkwood #1)

"That'll all be down to Snow's princessly training, Gretel supposes. Is one generally taught to handle a blade with utmost stealth and precision at princess school?"

-Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Darkwood (Darkwood #1)

"Wait, hang on,' says Trevor. 'How do you know they're on their way to the village? You're not even a witch.' He ponders this for a moment. 'It's not going to turn out that you are secretly a witch af…"

-Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Darkwood (Darkwood #1)

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20. The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

By: Menna Van Praag

3.20

Format: 448 pages, ebook

The critically acclaimed author of The House at the End of Hope Street combines love, mystery, and … read more

Similar categories in Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1) book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magical realism
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Scarlet often wondered about how it might feel to be loved for no special reason at all. Without trying to twist yourself into agreeable knots, without having to give what you might not want to give,…"

-Menna Van Praag, The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

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21. Cartas que no llegaron

By: Gilraen Eärfalas

3.97

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

Ella era un alma libre, una sirena con ansias de conquistar los océanos. Él parecía el hombre perfe… read more

Similar categories in Gilraen Eärfalas's Cartas que no llegaron book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

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22. Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults: DESIGNED TO CALM YOUR MIND FOR A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP

By: Lucy Mangan

3.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

* * * Tales to soothe tired souls. A night time companion for frazzled adults, including calming st… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Mangan's Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults: DESIGNED TO CALM YOUR MIND FOR A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Beauty of the Wolf

By: Wray Delaney

2.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What some might call beauty, I find monstrous' In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lor… read more

Similar categories in Wray Delaney's The Beauty of the Wolf book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy by A.J. Elwood

24. The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy

By: A.J. Elwood

3.39

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Dark tales inspired by J. M. Barrie's classic stories of Neverland, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and o… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Elwood's The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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25. The King's Witches

By: Kate Foster

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgett… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The King's Witches book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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26. Wonderland: An Anthology

By: Marie O'Regan

3.43

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the greatest names in fantasy and horror comes an anthology of stories inspired by Alice's Adv… read more

Similar categories in Marie O'Regan's Wonderland: An Anthology book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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27. Miss Subways

By: David Duchovny

3.65

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega o… read more

Similar categories in David Duchovny's Miss Subways book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Dickinson had no voice in her own time, as a woman, so she stuffed her silent screams, more than eight hundred of them, in a drawer and waited for eternity hear. And eternity did hear."

-David Duchovny, Miss Subways

"What is the moral reason to do anything? Is it my pleasure? Or is it simply some imprecise calculus of figuring out the greatest good for the greatest number? Or is there a hard and fast thing called…"

-David Duchovny, Miss Subways

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28. The Second Bell

By: Gabriela Houston

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world which believes her to be a monster, a young striga fights to harness the power of her se… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Houston's The Second Bell book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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29. Of Silver and Shadow

By: Jennifer Gruenke

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Ren Kolins is a silver wielder—a dangerous thing to be in the kingdom of Erdis, where magic has bee… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Gruenke's Of Silver and Shadow book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Books were a reminder that the whole world wasn't a bleak tapestry of violence, and while she might never see anything beautiful again, at least she could read about kinder things. It was easier to b…"

-Jennifer Gruenke, Of Silver and Shadow

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30. Gentlest of Wild Things

By: Sarah Underwood

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

On the island of Zakynthos, nothing is more powerful than Desire―love itself, bottled and sold to t… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Underwood's Gentlest of Wild Things book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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31. Rebel of Fire and Flight (The Balloon Thief #1)

By: Aneesa Marufu

3.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of sixteen-year-old Khadija, who flees her home in a stolen hot air balloon to es… read more

Similar categories in Aneesa Marufu's Rebel of Fire and Flight (The Balloon Thief #1) book and Menna Van Praag's The Sisters Grimm (The Sisters Grimm #1)

  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult

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