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Books like Fairy Tale Anthologies: 9 series to read next

Fairy Tale Anthologies is fantasy and fairy tale retelling. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Fairy Tale Anthologies is 7 books, 1993–2000.

“Each book commissions new stories from a rotating set of authors reworking familiar tales, often into darker, more adult territory than their source material.”
from the catalogue description

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Stonewater Kingdom
Gilded Duology
Tales from the Kingdoms
Narnia
Once Upon Anthologies
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Gormenghast
Folktales
Tales of the Flat Earth

Stonewater KingdomSeries

seriesRachel Gillig2 books2025

Romance.

Start with The Knight and the Moth →

Gilded DuologySeries

seriesMarissa Meyer2 books2021

“Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller’s daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue.”
from the catalogue description of Gilded

Start with Gilded →

Tales from the KingdomsSeries

seriesSarah Pinborough5 books2013

Fairy tale retelling and fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with Magic →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Once Upon AnthologiesSeries

seriesuncredited, C. Gockel & Phaedra Weldon9 books2015

Fairy tale retelling and fantasy.

Start with Once Upon a Curse: 17 Dark Faerie Tales →

A Court of Thorns and RosesSeries

seriesSarah J. Maas6 books2015

Romantasy.

“There are currently five novels in the series, with the sixth scheduled to release on October 27, 2026, and the seventh on January 12, 2027.”
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Start with A Court of Thorns and Roses →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
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Start with Titus Groan →

FolktalesSeries

seriesRobin McKinley3 books1978

Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.

“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
from the catalogue description of Beauty

Start with Beauty →

Tales of the Flat EarthSeries

seriesTanith Lee14 books1978

About demons.

“The novels take inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights and are similarly structured as interconnected stories.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Night's Master →

Why these

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Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after Fairy Tale Anthologies?: Stonewater Kingdom — the closest match to Fairy Tale Anthologies on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Fairy Tale Anthologies?: Snow White, Blood Red. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Fairy Tale Anthologies.
How big is Fairy Tale Anthologies?: Fairy Tale Anthologies is 7 books, 1993–2000.

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