Fairy Tale & Mythology Titles for Teens & Adults

This year’s Summer Reading theme is Imagine Your Story. These fairy tale and mythology-inspired books for teens and adults are a great place to start.

Adults


Spinning Silver and/or Uprooted by Naomi Navak

 


The Song of Achilles and/or Circe by Madeline Miller

 


Rat Queens (Graphic Novel) by Kurtis Wiebe


Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire


The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht


Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse


The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood


The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg


Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier


The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden


The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman


Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia


Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice


Teens


The Cruel Prince and/or The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black


Ash and/or Huntress by Malinda Lo

 


Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta


Geekerella by Ashley Poston


The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine


East by Edith Pattou


A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce


Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr


The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh


Sea Witch by Sarah Henning


Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter


Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale


Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi


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