Books like Fairy Tale
If you liked Fairy Tale by Stephen King, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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A Wizard of Earthsea
Because shares tags: fantasy, coming of age, adventure.
A proud goatherd becomes the wizard Ged, looses a shadow at Roke, and must hunt it across Earthsea to name it. Le Guin's lean 1968 series…
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The Graveyard Book
Because shares tags: fantasy, horror, coming of age.
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 Drawing of the Three
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: fantasy, horror.
Wounded on a beach, Roland pulls two strangers from New York through doors to survive and keep moving toward the Tower.
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The Green Mile
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, fantasy.
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
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The Gunslinger
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: fantasy, horror.
Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.
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It
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, coming of age.
Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.
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The Silver Chair
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure.
Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure.
A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.
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The Lincoln Highway
Because shares tags: coming of age, adventure.
Emmett and Billy plan California in 1954, but two escapees steal their car and drag them east to New York.
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The Last Battle
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure.
Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.
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The Great Hunt
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure.
Rand hunts the stolen Horn of Valere across the land while Egwene and Nynaeve face the Seanchan and the White Tower.
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The Dragon Reborn
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure.
Rand flees to Tear to claim Callandor while Perrin, Mat, and Egwene are drawn after him to the fallen Stone.
