Books like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
If you liked Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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One Dark Window
Because shares tags: fantasy, gothic, magic.
Elspeth Spindle hides a monster in her head and joins a treasonous hunt for twelve magic cards to save mist-locked Blunder.
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Babel
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic, alternate history.
A Chinese orphan trained in translation magic at Oxford must choose between empire and resistance as Britain drives toward war with China.
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Wizard's First Rule
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
Woods guide Richard joins Kahlan and wizard Zedd to find the Boxes of Orden before Darken Rahl, learning why people believe lies.
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Uprooted
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
The Dragon takes messy Agnieszka instead of perfect Kasia to his tower, and she must learn wild magic to face the corrupt Wood.
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The Shadow Rising
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
Rand the Dragon heads for Rhuidean with the Aiel, while Perrin defends the Two Rivers and Elayne and Nynaeve hunt trouble in Tanchico.
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The Atlas Six
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
Six rival magicians join the Alexandrian Society where five survive.
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The Alloy of Law
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
Wax and Wayne chase Vanishers by rail in a gunpowder Mistborn city 300 years later.
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Mort
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
Death hires apprentice Mort in this 1987 Discworld comedy, where a spared princess splits reality and duty bends for love, with no…
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Children of Blood and Bone
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
White haired Zelie chases magic return with princess Amari hunted by Inan.
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A Curse for True Love
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
Evangeline wakes married with no memory of Jacks while Apollo and Jacks hunt.
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Finale
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
Sisters face waking Fates with debts due, loving princes, and choices that break immortal math.
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The Silver Chair
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic.
Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.
