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Books like Sea Witch: 9 series to read next

Sea Witch is fantasy and fairy tale retelling, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sea Witch is 2 books, 2018–2019.

“Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town.”
from the catalogue description of Sea Witch

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Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales Retold
Karou
The Blood Journals
Fairy Tale Retellings (Jackson Pearce)
Roses Red
Grishaverse
A Court of Thorns and Roses
The Bone Witch
Folktales

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

seriesNaomi Novik4 books2015

Fantasy and fairy tale retelling, set in secondary world.

“The two books share no characters or setting, only Novik's method of building a novel around one inherited folk tale.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →

KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

Fantasy, emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

The Blood JournalsSeries

seriesTessa Gratton2 books2011

Fantasy, about witches, set in contemporary.

“Meet Silla, a damaged heroine who is fixated on death.”
from the catalogue description of Blood Magic

Start with Blood Magic →

Fairy Tale Retellings (Jackson Pearce)Series

seriesJackson Pearce4 books2010

Fairy tale retelling and fantasy, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Sisters Red →

Roses RedSeries

seriesChani Lynn Feener2 books2019

Romantasy.

“Arden Archer is cursed: she can see the Unseelie fae, a gift that sends the women in her family to an early grave.”
from the catalogue description of Tithe

Start with Tithe →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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A Court of Thorns and RosesSeries

seriesSarah J. Maas6 books2015

Romantasy, about fae.

“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.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with A Court of Thorns and Roses →

The Bone WitchSeries

seriesRin Chupeco3 books2017

Dark fantasy, about undead.

Start with The Bone Witch →

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 →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Sea Witch?: Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales Retold — the closest match to Sea Witch on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Sea Witch?: Sea Witch. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Sea Witch.
How big is Sea Witch?: Sea Witch is 2 books, 2018–2019.

Books like Sea Witch: 9 series to read next

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