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Books like Cinder

Explore 24 books like Cinder by Marissa Meyer — a handpicked selection united by Blended Families, Alien Contact, Adaptations, and Fairy Tales & Folklore.

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Top related books to Cinder

Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Cinder — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Winter

Marissa Meyer

Themes: Blended Families • Alien Contact • Adaptations

Beastly

Alex Flinn

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

Sword of the Rightful King A Novel of King Arthur

Jane Yolen

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

Stepsister

Jennifer Donnelly

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

Wayfarer A Tale of Beauty and Madness

Lili St. Crow

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

It Started with Goodbye

Christina June

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

Straw Into Gold

Gary D. Schmidt

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

The Mislaid Magician Or Ten Years After Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm

Patricia C. Wrede

Themes: Blended Families • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

The Whispering Fog

Landra Jennings

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

#10

Cinderella An Islamic Tale

Fawzia Gilani

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

#11

Smoky Mountain Rose An Appalachian Cinderella

Alan Schroeder

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

#12

My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Aladdin

Jerry Mahoney

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

#13

Lalani of the Distant Sea

Erin Entrada Kelly

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

#14

Cinderella (As If You Didn’t Already Know the Story)

Barbara Ensor

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

#15

The Totally NOT Wicked Stepmother

Samantha Berger

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

#16

Sisters of the Neversea

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Themes: Blended Families • Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore

#17

Resurrection of the Phoenix’s Grace (Book Four) Phoenix Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy with Phoenixes

LRW Lee

Themes: Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

#18

Dreams Lie Beneath

Rebecca Ross

Themes: Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

#19

Red Glove

Holly Black

Themes: Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

#20

The Blood Spell — C J Redwine

C. J. Redwine

Themes: Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

#21

West

Edith Pattou

Themes: Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

#22

Fire and Hemlock

Diana Wynne Jones

Themes: Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

#23

These Feathered Flames

Alexandra Overy

Themes: Adaptations • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

#24

Princess Ben

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Themes: Blended Families • Fairy Tales & Folklore • Young Adult Fiction

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Connected by Blended Families, Alien Contact, Adaptations. Authors featured include Marissa Meyer, Alex Flinn, Jane Yolen, Jennifer Donnelly, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.