7 must-read magic books like The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

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The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An…

"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

If you liked the magic plot in The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

1. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

Similar categories in Amy Tintera's Listen for the Lie book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

Cover of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

2. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

3. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

4. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Cover of The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

5. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

6. The Last Murder at the End of the World

By: Stuart Turton

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Wat… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Turton's The Last Murder at the End of the World book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle

8. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

9. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke

10. A Short Walk Through a Wide World

By: Douglas Westerbeke

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the in… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Westerbeke's A Short Walk Through a Wide World book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of Doors by Gareth  Brown

11. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • time travel
  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

Cover of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard

12. The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more

Similar categories in Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • magical realism
  • time travel
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin   Stevenson

14. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The City of Stardust by Georgia  Summers

15. The City of Stardust

By: Georgia Summers

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods an… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Summers's The City of Stardust book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

16. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • time travel
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

17. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

18. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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19. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

Cover of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

21. The Unmaking of June Farrow

By: Adrienne Young

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance,… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's The Unmaking of June Farrow book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • time travel
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped w…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no b…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would …"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

Cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

22. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • books about books
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23. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris  Whitaker

24. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

25. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

26. The Day Tripper

By: James Goodhand

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazi… read more

Similar categories in James Goodhand's The Day Tripper book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • time travel
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People who pursue money are those with nothing better to pursue."

-James Goodhand, The Day Tripper

Cover of The Wedding People by Alison Espach

27. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

Cover of All This & More by Peng Shepherd

28. All This & More

By: Peng Shepherd

3.47

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more

Similar categories in Peng Shepherd's All This & More book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • magical realism
  • time travel
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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29. The Spellshop

By: Sarah Beth Durst

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Spellshop book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"She was lonely, and she wanted someone to love. She made me out of love, and the empire destroyed her for it."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"There was something so very beautiful about a notebook without a single note in it. It felt like touching pure potential."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"I hope you know what you're doing" Caz said as he returned. "I absolutely do not know what I'm doing. I thought that was clear?"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

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30. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

31. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

31 must-read fiction books like The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Kristen Perrin

3.80

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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The Fury

Alex Michaelides

3.38

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The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

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