Books like The Reptile Room
If you liked The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Bad Beginning
Because same series (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1); also by Lemony Snicket; shares tags: children, mystery, gothic.
After a fire kills their parents, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to Count Olaf, who plots to steal their fortune.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Because shares tags: gothic, mystery.
Merricat guards sister Constance after arsenic deaths, until cousin Charles invades and fire frees them.
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Because shares tags: mystery, humor.
Precious Ramotswe opens a detective agency in Gaborone and solves small cases with tea, patience, and kindness.
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The Turn of the Key
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
A nanny writes from prison about a smart Highland house, four girls, and the night one child died.
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The Thirteenth Tale
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
A dying novelist tells her true story at last to a bookseller's daughter, and the mystery of the Angelfield twins comes into the open.
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The Historian
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
A daughter traces her father's search for Dracula through letters and archives across Europe.
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Because shares tags: children, humor.
A mouse gets a cookie and turns one small favor into a whole busy day.
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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…
