Books like The Bad Beginning
If you liked The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Only One Left
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
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Mexican Gothic
Because shares tags: gothic, mystery.
In 1950 Mexico, glamorous Noemi Taboada leaves Mexico City for High Place after a desperate letter, to rescue cousin Catalina from the…
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Witches
Because shares tags: children, humor.
Colin Hawkins's rhyming picture book teaches small readers to spot witches, flaps and all.
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
Aiden relives a murder day in eight hosts to solve Evelyn Hardcastle's killing.
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The BFG
Because shares tags: children, humor.
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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James and the Giant Peach
Because shares tags: children, humor.
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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A Light in the Attic
Because shares tags: children, humor.
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
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The Thursday Murder Club
Because shares tags: mystery, humor.
Four residents of Coopers Chase meet weekly to solve cold cases until developer Tony Curran is murdered and the Thursday Murder Club must…
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Because shares tags: gothic, mystery.
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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The Cat in the Hat
Because shares tags: children, humor.
A tall Cat turns a rainy day upside down for Sally and her brother, with Thing One and Thing Two in tow.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Because shares tags: children, humor.
Edward Bear comes downstairs bump-bump-bump and into the Hundred Acre Wood for honey, hunneys, and heffalumps.
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The Shadow of the Wind
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches.
