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series3 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.”
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series6 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 →

Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine)Series

series5 books1997

“Fairest moves to the neighboring kingdom of Ayortha for a take on Snow White, with later volumes continuing to draw on other tales within the same connected world.”
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Start with Ella Enchanted →

Russian / Jewish Fairy Tales RetoldSeries

series4 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.”
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Start with Excerpt from Uprooted →

Once Upon a Broken HeartSeries

series4 books2021

Romantasy.

“Once Upon a Broken Heart and its sequels follow the fallout of that bargain across a fairy-tale-inflected world of curses and dangerous magic.”
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Start with Once Upon a Broken Heart →

DeerskinNovel

Robin McKinleystandalone novel1993

Sad in tone, about grief and loss.

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