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Joseph  (bluemanticore) | 433 comments Can anyone suggest some good reads that have to do with the character Baba Yaga? Either nonfiction or fiction, tellings of the original folklore about her or novels that have her as a character, main or supporting?
So far I've read:
Deborah Blake's Baba Yaga UF series, first book is Wickedly Dangerous
Baba Yaga's Assistant by Marika McCoola, a graphic novel retelling based on her folklore

TIA


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Emma | 15 comments Deathless (Leningrad Diptych, #1) by Catherynne M. Valente Baba Yaga is a supporting character in this. It's full of Russian folk lore too :)


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Melanti | 330 comments In the Forests of Serre by McKillip is wonderful.

Here's Surlalune's Baba Yaga listing: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ba...


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Carmen | 49 comments Except the Queen Except the Queen by Jane Yolen by Jane Yolen.

Baba Yaga is scary as hell in this one. Although basically a force for good. A scary force for good.


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Ann aka Iftcan (iftcan) | 6917 comments Mod
She has appeared several times as a minor character in the Mercy Thompson UF series. The last book has her appearing in it several times, but that's not the only one she's been in. I just can't remember which other ones she's been in. (Fire Touched for that last book)

Witch Way to the Mall (Ignore the cheesy cover, the stories are funny and good) has one story with Baba Yaga in it. (That's the story that is sort of depicted on the cover, btw.)


message 7: by Melanti (new)

Melanti | 330 comments There's some more recs in this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'd forgotten about the thead, but in a burst of good timing, someone bumped it earlier today.


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Eliene | 38 comments Uprooted by Naomi Novik has the Baba Yaga folklore tied into it.


message 11: by Joseph (last edited Apr 28, 2016 08:29PM) (new)

Joseph  (bluemanticore) | 433 comments Amy wrote: "I really enjoyed Babayaga"

Looks interesting. Sounds kind of similar to The Patriot Witch by C.C. Finlay. It's book 1 in the Traitor to the Crown trilogy. You might like it.


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Merrilee (jrsygrl626) | 189 comments I (by chance) found a children's book called Baba Yaga and then remembered this thread. It was very cute.


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Pamela Love | 1527 comments A retelling, "Baba Yaga, the Forest Witch" appears in Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome. Old Peter's Russian Tales and is reprinted in Nine Witch Tales by "Abby Kedrabra", ha ha. Nine Witch Tales


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BookWoman | 125 comments I know this thread is old, but Summer in Orcus by T. Kingfisher.


message 19: by Capn (new)

Capn | 3515 comments There's a classic children's series that seems to have a lot of overlap/inspiration taken from Baba Yaga's mythology, but I can't confirm if she's in it:

The People in the Garden
Rescue by Broomstick
The Hag Calls for Help
Seven League Ballet Shoes
Hag in the Castle
Hags on Holiday
and another (Hag by Starlight), which isn't on GR.

It's from a discussion here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


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