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Books Like Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries is grumpy / sunshine, fae & enemies to lovers — sweet (1/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

In 1909, curmudgeonly Cambridge professor Emily Wilde travels to a remote Scandinavian village to study the elusive Hidden Ones — the most mysterious of all faeries — for what will be the world's first comprehensive faerie encyclopaedia. Her plans are upended when her insufferably charming academic rival Wendell Bambleby appears uninvited, and as dark fae magic closes in around the village, Emily must unravel not only the secrets of the Hidden Ones but also the truth about who Bambleby really is.