10 Top fantasy books like The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

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The Little Mermaid

By: Hans Christian Andersen

3.90

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A beautifully illustrated new translation of a beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Six yo…

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Cover of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba by Gabriel García Márquez

1. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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  • classics
"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

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2. Forever...

By: Judy Blume

3.63

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to… read more

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  • classics
"I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

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3. The Happy Prince

By: Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • childrens
"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Bring me the two most precious things in the city,"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose,…"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

Cover of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

4. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • childrens
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

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5. The Family Under the Bridge

By: Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
"You're afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if they find out you have one."

-Garth Williams, The Family Under the Bridge

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6. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • childrens
"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

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7. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • classics
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8. Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

By: Philip Freeman

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho--the first woma… read more

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  • classics

9. Princess Princess Ever After

By: Kay O'Neill

3.65

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neith… read more

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  • fantasy
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10. The Man Who Planted Trees

By: Jean Giono

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern t… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Once (Once, #1) by Morris Gleitzman

11. Once (Once, #1)

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanag… read more

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  • childrens

12. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper

By: Charles Perrault , Marcia Brown

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slippe… read more

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13. Reached (Matched, #3)

By: Ally Condie

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what… read more

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14. Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Twilight, #1.75)

By: Stephenie Meyer

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

For the first time in a stand-alone paperback comes Stephenie Meyer's Life and Death, a compelling … read more

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15. Rapunzel

By: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm

3.88

Format: None pages,

Short story read more

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16. Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess (Dork Diaries, #4)

By: Rachel Renée Russell

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls in this hilarious novel! I wasn't at all surprised to find out … read more

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17. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

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  • fantasy
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

Cover of Witch (The Cursed Manuscripts, #1) by Iain Rob Wright

18. Witch (The Cursed Manuscripts, #1)

By: Iain Rob Wright

3.71

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

On December 21, 2012, according to the Mayan Calendar, the world was supposed to end. It didn't. Bu… read more

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  • fantasy
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19. No One Rides For Free

By: Judith Sonnet

2.78

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

Jodi was driving her children to college when The Man got in their car.Uninvited, unwanted, and unh… read more

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Cover of Sorceline (#1-3) by Sylvia Douyé

20. Sorceline (#1-3)

By: Sylvia Douyé

3.65

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Island of Vorn, where mythical creatures roam free and only the brightest students a… read more

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  • fantasy
  • childrens
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21. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

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  • childrens
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

Cover of Love & Other Disasters (Love & Other Disasters, #1) by Anita Kelly

22. Love & Other Disasters (Love & Other Disasters, #1)

By: Anita Kelly

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on th… read more

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"And it was hard to explain. That they didn't want to be a man, but that they had never felt quite right as a girl. That they only started to feel really okay when they understood they could be their …"

-Anita Kelly, Love & Other Disasters (Love & Other Disasters, #1)

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23. Dead Inside

By: Chandler Morrison

3.29

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

In this bleak and disturbingly erotic debut novel, iconoclast Chandler Morrison provides readers wi… read more

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24. Skin

By: Audrey Rush

3.54

Format: 62 pages, ebook

After years of solitude, Teddy Wright is tasked with a strange taxidermy request. He’s never preser… read more

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25. Luna llena

By: Aki Shimazaki

4.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

En una pequeña localidad japonesa, el matrimonio compuesto por Tetsuo y Fujiko Nire vive apacibleme… read more

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26. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House (I Found Horror) by Ben Farthing

27. I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House (I Found Horror)

By: Ben Farthing

3.77

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Lost in a labyrinth of circus tents... Dave and his four-year-old, Jacob, find a circus tent in … read more

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28. Fake Dates and Mooncakes

By: Sher Lee

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Heartstopper meets Crazy Rich Asians in this heartfelt, joyful paperback original rom-com that foll… read more

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"We have the destiny to meet across a thousand miles."

-Sher Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes

"I'm not sure which knife on my place mat is for cutting the tension"

-Sher Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes

"Grief has a way of sneaking up on you when you're least expecting it. A song, a phrase, a scent...then you're falling into an empty space inside that you thought you'd patched. That you thought could…"

-Sher Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes

"I shrug. "He lives in a huge mansion and drives a Ferrari. I ride a bike with a squeaky front wheel. Our worlds are as far apart as the sun and the moon." "They align every now and then," Aunt Jade p…"

-Sher Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes

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29. Seoulmates

By: Susan Lee

3.55

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out—the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then … read more

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30. The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #2)

By: Megan Bannen

4.15

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy comes a heartwarming fantasy with a best frien… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

31. The Little Mermaid

By: Hans Christian Andersen

3.90

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A beautifully illustrated new translation of a beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Six yo… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • childrens

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3.79

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3.63

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4.20

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2.80

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Aron Beauregard

3.38

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3.95

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