Books like The Ten Thousand Doors of January
12 books with a reading profile close to The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Night Circus
romance, narrative
Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair are two young illusionists tethered to Le Cirque des Rêves, a traveling venue of monochrome tents that appears without warning and opens only at night.
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2
The Song of Achilles
romance, narrative
In this reimagining of the Trojan War, the awkward prince Patroclus is exiled to the court of King Peleus, where he forms an unlikely friendship with the golden demi-god Achilles.
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3
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab
romance, narrative
In 1714, a young French woman named Adeline LaRue strikes a deal with a god of darkness to escape a forced marriage and live without belonging to anyone.
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4
The Binding
romance, narrative
In a world where books are physical vessels for human memories, Emmett Farmer is sent to apprentice under a Binder.
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5
Circe
romance, narrative
On the island of Aiaia, the exiled nymph Circe transforms from a rejected daughter of the sun god Helios into a formidable witch.
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6
Starling House
romance, narrative
In the dying town of Eden, Kentucky, Opal works menial jobs to provide a future for her younger brother, Jasper.
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7
The Tombs of Atuan
narrative, literary
Tenar is chosen as a young girl to be the new high priestess of the Nameless Ones, a set of ancient powers worshipped in the desert of Atuan.
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8
The Other Bennet Sister
romance, narrative
Mary Bennet occupies the margins of the Longbourn household, dismissed by her mother for her plainness and overlooked by her sisters.
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9
The Teller of Small Fortunes
by Julie Leong
narrative, literary
Tao is a young woman who works as a fortune-teller, reading small fortunes at markets, and who has left her past behind.
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10
The Gargoyle
romance, narrative
A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.
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11
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
romance, narrative
Set in early twentieth-century New York, this novel follows Coralie Sardie, the daughter of a sinister museum proprietor who exhibits biological anomalies on Coney Island.
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12
Gods of Jade and Shadow
narrative, literary
Set in 1920s Mexico, the story follows Casiopea Tun, a young woman living a life of servitude in her grandfather’s house.
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