Books like Faeries
12 books with a reading profile close to Faeries by Brian Froud. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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Higglety pigglety pop! ; and, Where the wild things are
by Maurice Sendak, Oliver Knussen
accessible, literary
This volume contains the librettos and production designs for two operas based on Maurice Sendak’s picture books.
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The Strange Library
accessible, literary
A boy stops at the municipal library on his way home from school to return some books and ends up in a windowless basement reading room.
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Flotsam
accessible, literary
A science-minded boy beachcombing for washed-up treasures finds an encrusted, antique underwater camera.
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5
A Man Without a Country
accessible, literary
This collection of short essays serves as a final public address on the state of American life and the health of the planet.
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6
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
literary, experimental
In the late 1960s, Charles Bukowski wrote a weekly column for the underground newspaper Open City in Los Angeles, and this book collects those pieces.
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The Canterville Ghost
by Oscar Wilde
accessible, literary
Sir Simon de Canterville is a sixteenth-century spirit who has successfully terrified the residents of Canterville Chase for three hundred years.
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8
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
accessible, literary
This short story collection presents surreal scenarios as metaphors for the complexities of modern intimacy.
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9
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
by Tim Burton
literary, experimental
Tim Burton’s short story collection consists of twenty-three illustrated poems detailing the lives of misunderstood children with physical abnormalities.
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10
The Salmon of Doubt
accessible, literary
The Salmon of Doubt is a posthumous mosaic of Douglas Adams’s unfinished fiction and personal non-fiction, compiled from his hard drives.
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Uncommon Type
by Tom Hanks
accessible, literary
Tom Hanks's debut book of fiction contains seventeen stories, each in some way featuring a typewriter, whether as the object at the centre or just in passing.
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Moon Over Manifest
accessible, literary
In 1936, twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker arrives in Manifest, Kansas, after her father sends her away to live with an old friend for the summer.
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