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Holly Black · 2015 · US · fantasy · young adult
★ 3.86 Goodreads · 91,627 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of The Darkest Part of the Forest

Tithe

Holly Black · 2002 · US 98% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 110,979 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Modern Faerie Tales
shares: fae, dark fantasy, young adult · speculative, easy read

Kaye, sixteen, who drifts around with her rock-singer mother, moves back to her grandmother's house in New Jersey and finds herself caught up in a war between the faerie courts.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 97% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: fae, dark fantasy, young adult · speculative, earnest

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 Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018 · US 97% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,889,283 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
shares: fae, dark fantasy, fairytale · speculative, easy read

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.

The Iron King

Julie Kagawa · 2010 · US 96% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 219,732 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Iron Fey
shares: fae, fairytale, young adult · speculative, easy read

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.

An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · 2017 · US 96% match ★ 3.64 Goodreads · 111,724 ratings
shares: forest, fae, fairytale · speculative, easy read

Isobel paints portraits for the fair folk, who pay her in enchantments, and when she paints the autumn prince Rook with human sorrow in his eyes, he carries her off to stand trial at his court for the insult.

Darkfever

Karen Marie Moning · 2006 · US 96% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 192,699 ratings
Book 1 of 11 in Fever
shares: fae, dark fantasy, fairytale · easy read, speculative

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.

Uprooted

Naomi Novik · 2015 · US 95% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 274,792 ratings
shares: forest, fairytale, magic · speculative, earnest

A village girl with earth magic is conscripted to fight an ancient evil in the enchanted forest, and discovers power she never imagined.

The Stolen Child

Keith Donohue · 2006 · US 95% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 11,749 ratings
shares: forest, fae, fairytale · speculative, easy read

Henry Day, seven, runs away and is taken by changelings who leave one of their own in his place, and while the changeling grows up as Henry, the real boy lives on in the woods as Aniday.

War for the Oaks

Emma Bull · 1987 · US 95% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 10,724 ratings
shares: fae, 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.

For the Wolf

Hannah Whitten · 2021 · US 94% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 68,900 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Wilderwood
shares: forest, dark fantasy, magic · speculative, earnest

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.

The Book of Love

Kelly Link · 2024 · US 94% match ★ 3.54 Goodreads · 12,484 ratings
shares: magic, small town, queer · speculative, story-driven

A year after they vanished and were presumed dead, three teenagers reappear in their music teacher's classroom in the coastal town of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and no one can explain where they have been.

Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas · 2020 · US 94% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 113,278 ratings
shares: young adult, magic, queer · easy read, earnest

Yadriel, a trans boy from a family of brujos in East Los Angeles, performs the ritual to summon a ghost to prove he is a real brujo, and ends up with the wrong one: Julian Diaz, his school's resident bad boy, who will not leave until he finds out how he died.