Alphabet of Thorn
10 best books like Alphabet of Thorn (Patricia A. McKillip): The Blue Sword, The Goose Girl, Crown Duel, Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, The Changeover, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, Summers at Castle Auburn, Keturah and Lord Death, Chalice, Water
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441068804 |
And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since the Lady Aerin herself...
| Author | Shannon Hale |
| ISBN | 1582349908 |
| Author | Sherwood Smith |
| ISBN | 0142301515 |
It begins in a cold and shabby tower room, where young Countess Meliara swears to her dying father that she and her brother will defend their people from the growing greed of the king. That promise leads them into a war for...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There's also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he's not doing a very good job of it--so just what are his intentions?) And then...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140365990 |
The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn’t the first time she’d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0064404773 |
Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.
When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and...
| Author | Sharon Shinn |
Summers at Castle Auburn was my first exposure to Sharon Shinn's fantasies, and it was pretty much insta-love for me (I like to think that Shinn returns my affections in a distant and anonymous fan-appreciation kind of way). It instantly set me off on a search...
| Author | Martine Leavitt |
| ISBN | 1932425292 |
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0399246762 |
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0142402443 |
After the Flood
| Author | Kassandra Montag |
| ISBN | 0062889397 |
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0575075368 |
| Author | Alfred Tennyson |
Written in the middle of his career, Idylls of the King is Tennyson's longest and most ambitious work. Reflecting his lifelong interest in Arthurian themes, his primary sources were Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the Welsh...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0141310707 |
The Rust Maidens
| Author | Gwendolyn Kiste |
| ISBN | 1947654446 |
It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile...