The Wrath & the Dawn book cover
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The Wrath & the Dawn

By Renée Ahdieh

#1 New York Times Bestseller

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.

She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.

*The book is a Rough Cut Edition (pages are deliberately not the same length).*

State Awards

Recommended reading lists from your state's teacher or librarian associations!
  • California
    • Westchester Fiction Award, 2016
  • Illinois
    • Abe Awards, 2018
    • Lincoln Book Award, 2018
  • Nevada
    • Nevada Young Readers Award, 2019
  • Iowa
    • Iowa Children's Choice Award, 2018-2019
  • Washington D.C.
    • Capitol Choices Reading List, 2016
  • Texas
    • TAYSHAS Reading List, 2016
  • Tennessee
    • Volunteer State Book Award, 2017-2018
  • Oregon
    • ORCA High School, 2017
  • North Carolina
    • North Carolina Young Adult Book Award, 2017-2018
  • South Dakota
    • South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards, 2016-2017

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