Books like Preludes & Nocturnes
If you liked Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Silmarillion
Because shares tags: fantasy, classics, mythology.
Tolkien's posthumous First Age history, edited by Christopher Tolkien: the Music of the Ainur, Feanor's Silmarils, Beren and Luthien,…
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The Drawing of the Three
Because shares tags: fantasy, horror, classics.
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 shares tags: horror, fantasy, classics.
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
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The Gunslinger
Because shares tags: fantasy, horror, classics.
Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.
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Norse Mythology
Because also by Neil Gaiman; shares tags: mythology, fantasy.
Gaiman retells the Norse myths in order, from the creation of the world to Ragnarok, with Odin, Thor and Loki at the center.
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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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Coraline
Because also by Neil Gaiman; shares tags: horror, fantasy.
Coraline finds a door to a better version of home, ruled by the Other Mother with button eyes.
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American Gods
Because also by Neil Gaiman; shares tags: fantasy, mythology.
Shadow Moon leaves prison to work for Mr Wednesday and gets pulled into war between old gods and new.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Because shares tags: classics, horror.
Merricat guards sister Constance after arsenic deaths, until cousin Charles invades and fire frees them.
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The Waste Lands
Because shares tags: fantasy, horror.
Jake rejoins ka tet through Lud toward Blaine riddle ride.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Because shares tags: classics, horror.
A masked Erik haunts the Paris Opera, coaching Christine Daae while rivaling Raoul for her. Chandelier crash, cellar lake, and unmasking…
