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Romance at the centre of the story, and a fantasy world carrying it: courts, dragons, covens, gods and the occasional cursed bargain. 70 books carry this tag, across 38 series, plus 15 titles with no series listed.

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab · 2020

In France in 1714, a young woman makes a bargain to live forever and finds out what the price is only afterwards: everyone she meets forgets her the moment she is out of sight. Addie LaRue spends the next three hundred years being erased, learning to leave marks on a world that keeps smoothing them away, and arguing with the power that holds her contract. Then, in a bookshop in New York, she meets somebody who remembers her name. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a standalone about a deal, the two people on either side of it, and how long a person can keep insisting that they exist.

Historical fantasyFantasy romance

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The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri · 2021

The Parijatdvipan empire rules over a set of conquered kingdoms, and Ahiranya has had its language, its religion and its temples taken from it. The rot is spreading through the region, a sickness that pushes plants out through people's skin, and the empire finds that convenient. In the old temple called the Hirana there are the deathless waters, where the powers of another kind of spirit were once earned at a cost that most children did not survive; Priya is one of the few who did. Malini, the emperor's sister, refuses a ritual that was meant to kill her and is imprisoned in the Hirana for it, where Priya is sent to serve her. The first Burning Kingdoms novel is an Indian-inspired epic in which the rebellion runs through both the palace and the temple.

Epic fantasyFantasy romance

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Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead · 2007

St Vladimir's Academy is a boarding school like no other, a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teenagers train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, bodyguard to her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire princess. The two have been on the run, and now they are being taken back to the place where they are most at risk.

Vampire romanceYoung adult fantasy

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Breaking Dawn

Stephenie Meyer · 2008

Bella Swan has been pulled between her passion for the vampire Edward Cullen and her connection to the werewolf Jacob Black, and she has reached the point where the choice has to be made. She can join the world of the immortals or keep a fully human life. Now that she has decided, a chain of events begins that threatens far more than her own future.

Vampire romanceYoung adult fantasy

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Kiss of Crimson

Lara Adrian · 2007

A stranger comes to the veterinarian Tess Culver more dead than alive, a towering man in black riddled with bullets and losing blood fast. As she works to save him she does not know that the man calling himself Dante is not a man at all but one of the Breed, vampire warriors fighting a desperate war. In one charged moment she is pulled into his world, where bands of rogue vampires hunt at night.

Paranormal romanceVampire romance

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Shadow Souls

L. J. Smith · 2010

Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has been captured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are causing havoc in the town of Fell's Church. To find him she entrusts her life to Stefan's brother Damon, a deadly vampire who wants Elena body and soul, and the two of them set out for the slums of the Dark Dimension, where Stefan is being held.

Vampire romanceYoung adult fantasy

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House of Sky and Breath

Sarah J. Maas · 2022

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar have saved their city and would now like a quiet life, but a rebellion is forming against the rulers who have left them alone so far. They are drawn into the rebels' plans, and the choice in front of them is whether to keep their heads down while other people are oppressed or to join in.

Fantasy romanceUrban fantasy

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We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal · 2019

Zafira is the Hunter, who dresses as a man to go into a cursed forest and bring back food for her people, and whose identity would be worth her life if it were known. Nasir is the Prince of Death, who kills for his father the sultan, and the sultan has now sent him to find the Hunter and finish her.

Young adult fantasyFantasy romance

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House of Flame and Shadow

Sarah J. Maas · 2024

Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, and now that she has, all she wants is to get back to it: her family, her friends and her mate are all there. Stranded in a strange world, she needs every bit of her wit to find a way home, and she has no idea who she can trust. Meanwhile Hunt Athalar is back in the Asteri's dungeons, stripped of his freedom.

Fantasy romanceUrban fantasy

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Lightlark

Alex Aster · 2022

Every hundred years the island of Lightlark appears in order to host the Centennial, a deadly game that the rulers of the six realms are invited to play. It is their last chance to break the curses that have afflicted their realms for centuries, and each ruler has something to conceal: to destroy the curses, one ruler has to die. Isla Crown rules Wildling, a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with.

Fantasy romanceYoung adult fantasy

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Down Comes the Night

Allison Saft · 2021

Wren Southerland's reckless use of magic has cost her the place she had in the Queen's Guard and the company of the friend she loves. So when a letter arrives from a reclusive lord asking her to come to his estate to cure a patient, she takes the commission, and finds that the house and the man she is meant to heal are not what the letter described.

Dark fantasyFantasy romance

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House of the Beast

Michelle Wong · 2025

A young woman born out of wedlock and shunned by the society she was raised in makes a bargain with a god, and the bargain is for revenge on the aristocratic family that turned its back on her. What the god wants in return, and what the house he keeps turns out to contain, is not explained to her in advance.

Dark fantasyFantasy romance

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Payback's a Witch

Lana Harper · 2021

Emmy Harlow is a witch of modest power who left the magical town of Thistle Grove years ago and has avoided going back. The spellcasting tournament her family has always arbitrated is approaching, and tradition, or her parents, brings her home. On her first night in town she runs into Talia Avramov, and the two of them discover a shared grievance against the heir of the most powerful family in Thistle Grove.

Paranormal romanceUrban fantasy

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Shadow Spell

Nora Roberts · 2014

Connor O'Dwyer is a falconer in County Mayo who takes visitors on hawk walks across the countryside, and Meara Quinn, his sister's best friend, guides the same visitors on horseback. They have known each other their whole lives, and Connor has never thought about her any differently until a brush with death changes the arrangement. Meara does not want to lose the friendship, or herself, to something more.

Paranormal romanceWitch and magic

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A Restless Truth

Freya Marske · 2022

Maud Blyth volunteers to serve as a companion to an elderly woman on an ocean liner so that she can help her brother with an investigation into a magical conspiracy. What she does not expect is for the old lady to be dead on the first day of the voyage. She is left with a body, a disrespectful parrot and Violet Debenham, an actress and magician returning to England.

Historical fantasyQueer romance

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Nightbane

Alex Aster · 2023

Isla Crown has won the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that had blighted the six realms for centuries. Almost nobody knows where her own powers came from. After a betrayal she would rather be distracted than crowned, and the rulers she beat have not accepted the outcome quietly. Something capable of killing everyone on Lightlark is also on its way.

Young adult fantasyDark fantasy

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The Prisoner's Throne

Holly Black · 2024

Prince Oak is imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, and the betrayal that put him there was his own. High King Cardan and High Queen Jude would use any means to retrieve their stolen heir. Oak has to decide whether to try to win back the trust of the girl he has always loved, or to stay loyal to Elfhame and give up the one thing that would end her reign.

Young adult fantasyFae and faerie

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The Immortal Highlander

Karen Marie Moning · 2004

Adam Black is immortal, arrogant and free to go wherever he likes, which has made him a great many enemies in the faerie courts. A curse strips him of his immortality and makes him invisible to everyone, which for a man like him is a sentence close to death. The only person who can see him is a law student called Gabrielle O'Callaghan, who has always been able to see both the mortal and the faery worlds.

Paranormal romanceTime travel

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Girl, Goddess, Queen

Bea Fitzgerald · 2023

Persephone was not carried off to the underworld: she jumped, refusing to be married to a god more in love with himself than with her. Now she has to talk the Underworld's arrogant ruler, Hades, into going along with a plan that will shake Mount Olympus, and to survive the politics of the gods who told the original lie about her.

Myth retellingYoung adult fantasy

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Dark Skye

Kresley Cole · 2014

Thronos, prince of Skye Hall, loved Lanthe when they were children, before their families' war caught the two of them in the middle of it and left them enemies. Centuries later he is a warlord carrying a blood vendetta against her, and she is a sorceress trying to recover powers she has lost, and he is hunting her without knowing what reaching her will cost him.

Paranormal romanceFantasy romance

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I Dream of Genies

Judi Fennell · 2011

Matt Ewing's business is failing and he would try almost anything to save it, including collecting lucky pennies, so when a beautiful woman appears out of the bottle he has been carrying around he assumes his luck has turned. Eden has been inside that bottle for two thousand years and is pleased to help, which is a problem, because her magic has gone rusty.

Paranormal romanceFantasy romance

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A Court of Silver Flames

Sarah J. Maas · 2021

Nesta Archeron is proud, quick to anger and slow to forgive, and since the war she has been unable to find a way to live with what she has seen. The novel follows her rather than her sister Feyre, and it is her account of getting through it. She has been difficult to live with since the war.

Fantasy romanceEpic fantasy

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Romantasy is a tag, not a genre. It marks the books where the two halves carry equal weight: the relationship has to be central rather than a side plot, and the fantasy has to be more than a backdrop, with magic that has rules, a world with its own politics, and creatures that change what the characters can do. Every book with this tag sits on both the romance shelf and the fantasy shelf, because both descriptions are true of it.

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The Jasmine Throne

Vampire Academy

Breaking Dawn

Kiss of Crimson

Shadow Souls

House of Sky and Breath

We Hunt the Flame

House of Flame and Shadow

Lightlark

Down Comes the Night

House of the Beast

Payback's a Witch

Shadow Spell

A Restless Truth

Nightbane

The Prisoner's Throne

The Immortal Highlander

Girl, Goddess, Queen

Dark Skye

I Dream of Genies

A Court of Silver Flames

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