Books like Coraline
If you liked Coraline by Neil Gaiman, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Graveyard Book
Because also by Neil Gaiman; shares tags: fantasy, horror.
A toddler escapes the murder of his family and is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, learning from the dead while the killer who hunts him…
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Because also by Neil Gaiman; shares tags: fantasy, horror.
A man recalls age seven when a lodger's suicide let hunger birds in, and Lettie Hempstock saved him.
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The Horse and His Boy
Because shares tags: fantasy, children.
Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.
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The Green Mile
Because shares tags: horror, fantasy.
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
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Peter Pan
Because shares tags: fantasy, children.
Wendy, John and Michael fly to Neverland with Peter, face Hook, and learn what growing up costs.
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The Witches
Because shares tags: children, fantasy.
A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Because shares tags: fantasy, children.
Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Because shares tags: fantasy, children.
Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's…
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The BFG
Because shares tags: children, fantasy.
Orphan Sophie is taken by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows happy dreams and eats vile snozzcumbers, and helps her stop nine man eating…
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Prince Caspian
Because shares tags: children, fantasy.
The Pevensies return to ruins at Cair Paravel and help Caspian take back Narnia from Miraz.
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James and the Giant Peach
Because shares tags: children, fantasy.
Lonely James escapes two cruel aunts inside a giant peach with huge insect friends, rolling to the sea and floating on gulls to New York…
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The Magician's Nephew
Because shares tags: fantasy, children.
C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing…
