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Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · US · fantasy · romance
Book 1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
★ 4.14 Goodreads · 4,653,884 ratings

Nineteen-year-old Feyre kills a wolf to feed her starving family, and a beastlike faerie comes to claim her life in payment, carrying her across the wall to his court in Prythian, where a blight is spreading through the fae lands.

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12 books for readers of A Court of Thorns and Roses

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas · 2012 · US 98% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 2,728,581 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Throne of Glass
shares: high fantasy, propulsive, magic, romance · easy read, earnest

An eighteen-year-old assassin pulled from a salt mine competes to become the king's champion, while something in the glass castle kills the other contestants one by one.

House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas · 2020 · US 98% match ★ 4.45 Goodreads · 1,370,342 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Crescent City
shares: fae, romantasy, sensual, romance · easy read, speculative

Bryce Quinlan, a half-fae party girl working at an antiquities gallery in the modern city of Lunathion, is pulled into the hunt for the demon that killed her best friend, alongside Hunt Athalar, an enslaved fallen angel.

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018 · US 98% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,889,283 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
shares: fae, enemies to lovers, romantasy, romance · easy read, speculative

Jude, a mortal girl brought to the High Court of Faerie as a child after her parents were murdered, wants a place among the fair folk who despise her, and to get it she must defy Prince Cardan, the cruellest of them.

Quicksilver

Callie Hart · 2024 · UK 98% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 1,028,034 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Fae & Alchemy
shares: fae, enemies to lovers, romantasy, romance · easy read, speculative

Saeris Fane, a thief who steals water in a desert city ruled by an immortal queen, wakes an ancient quicksilver portal by accident and is carried through it into Yvelia, a frozen fae realm, by a warrior called Kingfisher.

From Blood and Ash

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020 · US 98% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 913,197 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
shares: romantasy, sensual, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Poppy, the veiled Maiden chosen by the gods, is forbidden to touch or be touched, until Hawke, the guard sworn to protect her, makes her question everything she has been told about the kingdom and its gods.

A Deal with the Elf King

Elise Kova · 2020 · US 98% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 122,684 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Married to Magic
shares: fae, romantasy, sensual, romance · easy read, earnest

Luella, the only healer in her village, is chosen by the Elf King, Eldas, to be his human queen and taken into the Midscape, a land of wild magic that is slowly dying and that only she, it seems, can keep alive.

Gild

Raven Kennedy · 2020 · US 97% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 431,614 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in The Plated Prisoner
shares: romantasy, retelling, fairytale, romance · easy read, speculative

Auren is King Midas's favoured, gold-touched by him as his possession and kept in his castle of gold in the frozen mountains of Highbell, and when war comes and a deal is struck, her faith in the man who pulled her from the slums begins to crack.

A Court This Cruel and Lovely

Stacia Stark · 2022 · US 97% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 111,556 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Kingdom of Lies
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

In a kingdom where the gods strip humans of their power soon after birth and burn anyone who keeps it, Prisca's power surfaces in her tiny village, and to survive she flees and makes a bargain with a ruthless mercenary who is hiding secrets of his own.

The Hurricane Wars

Thea Guanzon · 2023 · Philippines 97% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 54,878 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Hurricane Wars
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, sensual, romance · speculative, romance-driven

Talasyn, an orphaned soldier who can weave light, has spent ten years fighting the Night Empire, whose heir Alaric commands shadow. After a defeat on the battlefield, a political marriage binds the two enemies together.

A Shadow in the Ember

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2021 · US 97% match ★ 4.45 Goodreads · 266,960 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Flesh and Fire
shares: romantasy, sensual, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Princess Seraphena of Lasania was promised before her birth as consort to the Primal of Death, then refused, and she has trained her whole life to make him fall in love with her so that she can kill him and save her dying kingdom.

The Bridge Kingdom

Danielle L. Jensen · 2018 · Canada 97% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 256,364 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Bridge Kingdom
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, sensual, romance · easy read, earnest

Lara, a princess raised in a desert compound and trained as a spy, is sent to marry the king of Ithicana, the island nation that controls the only bridge between two continents, with orders to find its weaknesses and bring it down.

The Bird and the Sword

Amy Harmon · 2016 · US 97% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 47,714 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Bird and the Sword
shares: romantasy, fairytale, secondary world, romance · easy read, earnest

Lark has not spoken since her mother, a gifted Teller, was killed for her magic and cursed her daughter's words with her dying breath, and when King Tiras takes Lark from her father's house as a hostage, she begins to find her voice.