Books like Doll Bones
12 books with a reading profile close to Doll Bones by Holly Black. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
Also escapist · horror, accessible
After moving into a Victorian house divided into flats, Coraline Jones discovers a hidden door that leads to a mirror world.
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2
A House with Good Bones
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, mystery
Sam Montgomery, an archaeoentomologist, returns to her childhood home in North Carolina to find her mother, Edith, behaving with uncharacteristic skittishness.
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3
The Thief of Always
by Clive Barker
Also clear-cut · horror, accessible
Ten-year-old Harvey Swick is paralyzed by the doldrums of a gray February until a creature named Rictus beckons him to Holiday House.
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4
The Hollow Places
Also practical and escapist · horror, accessible
Kara, recently divorced and living in her uncle’s museum of curiosities, discovers a hole in a drywall that leads into a concrete bunker and a landscape of endless islands amidst a dark river.
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5
The Halloween Tree
by Ray Bradbury
Also clear-cut · horror, accessible
On Halloween night, eight boys dressed in traditional costumes gather to meet their friend Pipkin, only to find him being pulled away by a dark force toward a derelict house.
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6
Big Lies in a Small Town
Also practical and clear-cut · mystery, accessible
In 2018, Morgan Christopher is released from a North Carolina prison on the condition that she restores a massive, crumbling mural in the quiet town of Edenton.
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7
Magic for Liars
by Sarah Gailey
Also practical and escapist · mystery, fantasy
Ivy Gamble is a cynical private investigator who lacks the magical abilities her estranged twin sister, Tabitha, uses to teach at the Osthorne Academy for Young Mages.
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8
Guards! Guards!
Also escapist · mystery, accessible
In the chaotic city-state of Ankh-Morpork, a secret brotherhood uses a stolen magical book to summon a noble dragon, hoping to overthrow the Patrician and install a puppet king.
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9
The Lighthouse Witches
by C.J. Cooke
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, mystery
In 1998, single mother Liv arrives on the remote Scottish island of Lòn Mòr with her three daughters to commission a mural inside a decommissioned lighthouse.
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10
A Touch of Dead
Also practical and clear-cut · mystery, accessible
A Touch of Dead gathers short stories from Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire world, centred on Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic barmaid in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana.
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11
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, accessible
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland wanders off a trail in the Maine-New Hampshire woods during a family hiking trip to escape her mother and brother’s constant bickering.
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Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, fantasy
Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager living in Jersey City who struggles to balance her conservative immigrant upbringing with her desire to fit in at high school.
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