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  • Cover of Gilded Duology
    Gilded DuologySeries

    series · 2 books · 2021

    “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.”

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  • Cover of Fairy Tale Anthologies
    Fairy Tale AnthologiesSeries

    series · 7 books · 1993

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

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    Tales from the KingdomsSeries

    series · 5 books · 2013

    Fairy tale retelling and fantasy, set in secondary world.

    Start with Magic →

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    Robin McKinley · standalone novel · 1993

    Dark fantasy, emotional in tone, about identity and grief and loss.

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    Rosamund Hodge · standalone novel · 2015

    Dark fantasy, emotional in tone.

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    FolktalesSeries

    series · 3 books · 1978

    Fairy tale retelling and fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

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