Books like Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Yumi, raised to summon spirits by stacking stones, and Painter, a young man who hunts nightmares with his brush in a city of endless night, wake to find their lives bound together across two worlds.
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Elantris
A prince discovers he can heal the mysterious disease destroying his kingdom's magic, but the cure demands a terrible price.
Warbreaker
A warrior princess and an immortal scholar clash and ally in a standalone fantasy about colour-based magic and political intrigue.
Radiance
Ildiko, a plain noblewoman of the human Gauri court, is married off to seal an alliance with Brishen Khaskem, a prince of the Kai, a people as monstrous to her as she is to them, and the two make the best of it with wit and growing tenderness.
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.
Throne of the Fallen
Prince Envy of hell, whose court is being wasted by a slow malady, enters a dangerous magical game with a prize that could save his people, and crosses paths with Camilla Antonius, a gifted painter struggling to keep her late father's gallery open while a local lord blackmails her over a secret.
An Enchantment of Ravens
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.
Dragonfall
In a city where dragons have been gone for centuries, Arcady, a young thief, crosses paths with Sorin, the last dragon, who has come into the human world in human form to bring his kind back.
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Hart, a marshal who patrols a wild, magic-haunted borderland, and Mercy, who runs her family's undertaking business, can't stand each other, and neither knows that the anonymous friend each has been writing letters to is the other.
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.
Spindle's End
Cursed at her name-day by a wicked fairy, the infant princess is spirited away to a remote village by a young fairy, Katriona, who raises her as an ordinary girl called Rosie, who can talk to animals.
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.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea
Reyna, a guard sworn to a cruel queen, and Kianthe, the most powerful mage in the world, run away together to open the bookshop and tea shop they have always dreamed of in a frontier town, where trouble finds them anyway.