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Books like Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

Heather Fawcett · 2024 · Canada · fantasy · romance
Book 2 of 3 in Emily Wilde
★ 4.23 Goodreads · 119,081 ratings

The second Emily Wilde novel: Emily, now a professor at Cambridge, takes a small expedition to a village in the Austrian Alps in search of a door into the realms of faerie, with her charming, infuriating colleague Wendell Bambleby along to complicate everything.

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12 books for readers of Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black · 2015 · US 94% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 91,627 ratings
shares: fae, fairytale, romantic · speculative, easy read

In Fairfold, a town where humans live alongside the fae, Hazel and her brother Ben have always loved the horned boy asleep in a glass coffin in the woods, until one day he wakes.

Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees · 1926 · UK 94% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 10,346 ratings
shares: fae, fairytale, quest · speculative, unhurried

In Lud-in-the-Mist, a prosperous town that has banned all mention of the fairy country beyond its border, the mayor's son is caught eating fairy fruit, and Master Nathaniel Chanticleer has to go after him.

Stardust

Neil Gaiman · 1999 · UK 94% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 490,157 ratings
shares: fae, fairytale, quest · easy read, speculative

In Victorian England, young Tristran Thorn promises to bring the girl he loves a fallen star, and crosses the wall from his village into the land of Faerie, where the star turns out to be a young woman.

The Iron King

Julie Kagawa · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 219,732 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Iron Fey
shares: fae, fairytale, quest · easy read, speculative

Just as she turns sixteen, Meghan Chase learns that her little brother has been taken and replaced with a changeling, and that she is the half-human daughter of a faery king, and she follows her best friend Robbie into the Nevernever to bring him home.

War for the Oaks

Emma Bull · 1987 · US 93% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 10,724 ratings
shares: fae, witty, romantic · speculative, easy read

Eddi McCandry, a Minneapolis rock singer who has just walked out on her band and her boyfriend, is drafted by the Seelie Court as the mortal who will decide its war with the Unseelie.

Darkfever

Karen Marie Moning · 2006 · US 93% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 192,699 ratings
Book 1 of 11 in Fever
shares: fae, fairytale, romantic · easy read, story-driven

MacKayla Lane, a Georgia bartender who loves pink and pop music, flies to Dublin to find out who murdered her sister and discovers she can see the Fae who hide among humans, which makes her valuable to the enigmatic Jericho Barrons.

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Brandon Sanderson · 2023 · US 92% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 338,810 ratings
shares: fairytale, quest, witty · easy read, speculative

Tress, a practical girl who collects cups from sailors on a rock in an ocean of deadly spores, sets out to rescue the young man she loves from the Sorceress, in a story told by a wry, meddling narrator.

Thomas the Rhymer

Ellen Kushner · 1990 · US 92% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 3,987 ratings
shares: fae, fairytale, romantic · speculative, unhurried

Thomas, a charming young harper in the Scottish borders, is taken by the Queen of Elfland to serve her for seven years, and comes back unable to tell a lie.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 92% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: fae, winter, romantic · speculative, easy read

Aislinn, who has always been able to see faeries and has kept it secret, is chosen by Keenan, the Summer King, as the mortal girl who may become his queen.

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Lord Dunsany · 1924 · Ireland 92% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 9,662 ratings
shares: fae, fairytale, quest · unhurried, hopeful

The lord of Erl, told by his parliament that the people wish to be ruled by a magic lord, sends his son Alveric across the border into Elfland to marry the Elf King's daughter.

The Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke · 2006 · UK 92% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 24,653 ratings
shares: fae, fairytale, witty · speculative, unhurried

Stories set in the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, of clever women, fairies and English magic.

Half a Soul

Olivia Atwater · 2020 · Canada 91% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 89,897 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Regency Faerie Tales
shares: fairytale, witty, romantic, fae · easy read, clear-cut

Ever since a faerie lord took half her soul when she was a child, Theodora Ettings has felt very little, which makes her London Season awkward, until she meets Lord Elias Wilder, the rude, unfashionable magician who might help her.