Looking for books like Caraval? Caraval was a YA fantasy sensation when it came out in 2016. Filled with magic, adventure and romance, it is solid escapism for a lot of teenagers. Caraval is clearly targeted towards young heterosexual white/European/US women, and whilst there is … Read More
If you like to be shocked by your fiction with plenty of twists that you don’t see coming then you will enjoy the many unpredictable books like Shutter Island listed below. Dennis Lehane has written many series of gripping psychological thrillers, but his stand-alone novels … Read More
Are you looking for books like The Magicians? The brilliant but miserable Quentin Coldwater reminds us of just how challenging and upsetting being a teenager can be. Like Quentin, I also used to escape reality by diving into a fantasy novel (reader’s note: I still … Read More
Of course, all writers have vivid imaginations in order to create, but some books like The Starless Sea are particularly so with stories, within stories, within stories so deftly woven together. Erin Morgenstern has become well known for her fantasy writing and her second novel … Read More
Dystopian romance has become a sub-genre all of its own, spawning hundreds of copy-cat stories of doomed romances set against a bleak-revolutionary backdrop. Delirium delights in torturing the reader and books like Delirium revel in trying to see how far they can go before a … Read More
There is more than one way to tell a story and books like The Red Tent are testament to that! In Anita Diamant’s 1997 novel, readers get an insight into what life was like for women during biblical times by giving voice to a previously … Read More
Are you looking for more books like Howl’s Moving Castle? Howl’s Moving Castle was written by the very much missed, Diana Wynne Jones. Jones’ sense of humour and wonder flows and twists through her books like Howl’s magic. Wynne Jones was a master storyteller, an … Read More
Looking for more books like The Shadow of the Wind? Then look no further than this list of equally spellbinding novels like the first in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s series The Cemetery of Lost Books which centres around a library of forgotten books and a writer … Read More