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Books To Read if You Love Wicked

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If your excitement for the new Wicked movie — starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jonathan Bailey — is making you feel like you could defy gravity, then you are going to fly head over heels for this list of books that includes fairytale reimaginings, magical novels, and all things wicked for any age.

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    The Wizard of Oz

    by L. Frank Baum

    This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum’s 14 Oz novels in which he developed his utopian vision and which garnered an immense and loyal following. Also included is a selection of the original illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill, a jacketed hardcover, and colored and printed endpapers.
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    I Am Elphaba

    by Mary Man-Kong

    Celebrates everything that is special about Elphaba, a green-skinned misunderstood woman, from Universal Pictures’ Wicked film. Glinda and the Wizard are also featured in gorgeous retro-style illustrations that will delight children and fans.
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    I Am Glinda

    by Mary Man-Kong

    Learn about Glinda, the pretty and charming girl from Universal Pictures’ Wicked film! Everything from Glinda’s magical world including her friend Elphaba and the Wizard is featured in gorgeous retro-style illustrations that will delight children and fans.
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    A Tale Dark & Grimm

    by Adam Gidwitz

    Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm (and Grimm-inspired) fairy tales. An irreverent, witty narrator leads us through encounters with witches, warlocks, dragons, and the devil himself. As the siblings roam a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind the famous tales, as well as how to take charge of their destinies and create their own happily ever after. Because once upon a time, fairy tales were awesome.
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    Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

    by Julie C. Dao

    A dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend follows one peasant girl’s quest to become Empress. Set in a fantasy world filled with both breathtaking pain and beauty, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns possesses all the hallmarks of masterful fantasy: Dazzling magic, heartbreaking romance, and a world that hangs in the balance. Fans of Heartless, Stealing Snow, and Red Queen will devour this stunning debut.
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    Island Witch

    by Amanda Jayatissa

    Set in 19th-century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, Island Witch follows the daughter of a traditional demon-priest — relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself — tries to solve the mysterious attacks that have been terrorizing her coastal village.
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    Akata Witch

    by Nnedi Okorafor

    Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she’s albino. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing — she is a “free agent” with latent magical power. And she has a lot of catching up to do. Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one’s place in the world.
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    Grimms’ Fairy Tales

    by Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

    From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes, and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as “The Frog-Prince” and “Hansel and Gretel” to the delights of “Ashputtel” or “Old Sultan,” all hold a timeless magic which has enthralled children for centuries.
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    The Night Circus

    by Erin Morgenstern

    Two star-crossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in this spellbinding novel that captured the world’s imagination. “Part love story, part fable … defies both genres and expectations” (The Boston Globe).
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    Peter Pan

    by J. M. Barrie

    Peter Pan and Tinkerbell lead the three Darling children over the rooftops of London and away to Neverland — the island where the lost boys play. Magic and mischief is in the air but if villainous Captain Hook has his way, before long someone will be swimming with the crocodiles …
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    The Bear and the Nightingale

    by Katherine Arden

    Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales, honoring the spirits that protect their homes from evil. Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids the family from honoring their household spirits, but Vasya fears what this may bring. And indeed, misfortune begins to stalk the village. As the village’s defenses weaken and evil from the forest creeps nearer, Vasya must call upon dangerous gifts she has long concealed — to protect her family from a threat sprung to life from her nurse’s most frightening tales.
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    Wicked Marigold

    by Caroline Carlson

    In a funny and charming fantastical romp, overlooked Princess Marigold is nothing like her perfect, just-returned sister — so she runs away to an evil wizard’s tower to prove her wickedness. This endearing fantasy will have princess and anti-princess fans alike chuckling and cheering.
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    Toto

    by A. J. Hackwith

    The true hero of The Wizard of Oz takes center stage in this brilliant, delightfully snarky reimagining from the author of The Library of the Unwritten.
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    Operation Sisterhood

    by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

    Fans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight as four new sisters band together in the heart of New York City. Discover this jubilant novel about the difficulties of change, the loyalty of sisters, and the love of family from a prolific award-winning author.
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    Spinning Silver

    by Naomi Novik

    “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.
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    A Little Princess

    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to settle in and make friends at boarding school. But when she learns that she’ll never see her beloved father again, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard work and a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness and generosity are all the riches she truly needs?
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    The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents

    by Nicki Pau Preto

    A middle grade magic school fantasy perfect for fans of The School for Good and Evil and Witchlings, in which a girl with unparalleled power must work with her misfit classmates to save her new school.
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    The Righteous

    by Renée Ahdieh

    In the third installment of the New York Times bestselling quartet that began with The Beautiful, Pippa journeys to the treacherous and beguiling world of the fey in search of answers but instead falls in love.
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    Practical Rules for Cursed Witches

    by Kayla Cottingham

    From the New York Times bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest comes a cozy fantasy romance about a teen witch who must complete her magical training by breaking a powerful family’s curse. But her own affliction — to never find true love — gets in the way when she falls for the girl she’s trying to save.
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    The Science of Discworld

    by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen

    Not just another science book and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.
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    A Wicked Magic

    by Sasha Laurens

    Modern witches must save friends stolen by an ancient demon in this YA fantasy-thriller. Set in the atmospheric wilds of California’s northern coast, Sasha Laurens’s thrilling debut novel is about the complications of friendship, how to take back power, and how to embrace the darkness that lives within us all.
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    The Bewitching

    by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    “Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva — stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga.
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