Books like Caraval
Scarlett Dragna has always dreamed of Caraval, a once-a-year performance where the audience plays along, and when she and her sister Tella finally reach the island, Tella is taken by the game's master and finding her becomes this year's game.
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
When the boy she loves is about to marry her stepsister, Evangeline Fox strikes a bargain with Jacks, the immortal Prince of Hearts, and must pay for his help with three kisses of his choosing, in a kingdom where fairy tales hold dangerous power.
Three Dark Crowns
On the island of Fennbirn, every generation of queens is born as triplets, each with a different gift, and when they turn sixteen they must fight to the death for the crown: Mirabella the elemental, Katharine the poisoner and Arsinoe the naturalist.
Lightlark
Every hundred years the island of Lightlark appears for the Centennial, a deadly game in which the rulers of six cursed realms compete to break their curses, and Isla Crown, young ruler of the Wildlings, arrives with secrets of her own.
For the Wolf
Red, the second daughter of the Queen of Valleyda, has known all her life that she will be sent into the Wilderwood as a sacrifice to the Wolf, and she goes almost gladly, to keep her dangerous power away from everyone she loves.
Faebound
Yeeran, a soldier in the elven army who has known nothing but war, is exiled after a fatal mistake along with her sister Lettle, a diviner, and in the wilderness beyond the borders they find the fae court, unseen for a thousand years.
Strange the Dreamer
Lazlo Strange, an orphan and junior librarian who has spent his life dreaming of the lost city of Weep, gets his chance when a hero from that city arrives seeking help with a problem no one will name.
Warbreaker
A warrior princess and an immortal scholar clash and ally in a standalone fantasy about colour-based magic and political intrigue.
Howl's Moving Castle
A young hatmaker cursed by a witch to be an old woman takes shelter in the walking castle of a vain young wizard whose demon is burning through a contract with his heart.
Wild Reverence
Matilda, the youngest goddess of her underworld clan, carries letters between the realms, and ten years after a mortal boy she knew from dreams prayed to her for help that never came, she tumbles through his window with a letter that will change both their fates.
Six of Crows
Kaz Brekker, a teenage criminal prodigy in the port city of Ketterdam, gathers five dangerous outcasts for a heist no one has survived: breaking a prisoner out of the Ice Court, the impregnable stronghold of Fjerda.
Graceling
Katsa was born with a Grace for killing, and her uncle the king uses her to frighten his enemies, until she meets Po, a foreign prince searching for his kidnapped grandfather, and begins to choose her own fights.
The Belles
In Orléans, where people are born grey and must pay for beauty, Camellia Beauregard is one of the Belles who can make them beautiful, and she wants nothing more than to be named the queen's favourite.