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Holly Black · 2002 · US · fantasy · young adult
Book 1 of 3 in Modern Faerie Tales
★ 3.68 Goodreads · 110,979 ratings

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.

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The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black · 2015 · US 99% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 91,627 ratings
shares: fae, dark fantasy, young adult · 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.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 99% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: fae, urban fantasy, dark fantasy · 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.

Rosemary and Rue

Seanan McGuire · 2009 · US 99% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 40,914 ratings
shares: fae, urban fantasy, series starter · speculative, easy read

October Daye, a changeling private investigator in San Francisco who lost fourteen years transformed into a fish, is forced back into the world of Faerie when a countess is murdered.

War for the Oaks

Emma Bull · 1987 · US 98% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 10,724 ratings
shares: fae, urban fantasy, 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 98% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 192,699 ratings
Book 1 of 11 in Fever
shares: fae, urban fantasy, dark fantasy · 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.

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, dark fantasy, young adult · 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 97% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 219,732 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Iron Fey
shares: fae, young adult, series starter · 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.

Bitten

Kelley Armstrong · 2001 · Canada 96% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 106,856 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, series starter, romantic · speculative, easy read

Elena Michaels, the only female werewolf alive, has left the Pack for a human life in Toronto, until a string of killings calls her back to Stonehaven.

Moon Called

Patricia Briggs · 2006 · US 96% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 222,391 ratings
Book 1 of 14 in Mercy Thompson
shares: urban fantasy, romantic · easy read, speculative

Mercedes Thompson, a Volkswagen mechanic in Washington's Tri-Cities who can turn into a coyote, takes in a young werewolf on the run, and his trouble pulls her into the politics of the local pack, led by her alpha neighbour, Adam Hauptman.

Three Dark Crowns

Kendare Blake · 2016 · US 96% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 120,059 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Three Dark Crowns
shares: dark fantasy, young adult, series starter · speculative, easy read

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.

Faerie Tale

Raymond E. Feist · 1988 · US 95% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 11,770 ratings
shares: fae, dark fantasy · speculative, earnest

The Hastings family moves into an old farmhouse in upstate New York, and the twin boys start meeting something in the woods.

Shadowshaper

Daniel José Older · 2015 · US 95% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 11,009 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Shadowshaper Cypher
shares: urban fantasy, young adult, series starter · easy read, earnest

Sierra Santiago, starting her summer painting a mural in Brooklyn, notices the murals in her neighbourhood fading and weeping, and learns her family has a secret that ties spirits to art.