16 Top fantasy books like Spineless by Samantha San Miguel

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Spineless

By: Samantha San Miguel

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This exciting middle-grade adventure is Hoot for the Gilded Age—with scientific discoveries, secret…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Spineless by Samantha San Miguel , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Stead's The Lost Library book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

Cover of The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

2. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

By: Beth Lincoln

4.06

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In her family, Shenanigan Swift has always been synonymous with mischief. As Arch-Aunt Schadenfreud… read more

Similar categories in Beth Lincoln's The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • mystery
"According to Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, a funeral ought to look like a wedding upside down."

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not somewhere hidden, not the top shelf or the back of a cupboard, but maybe by a window…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A collective term is a special name given to a group of animals, like a herd of cows. Many animals have their own strange terms. She knew the collective term for starlings was a murmuration, and the …"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing bloo…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

Cover of Greenwild (Greenwild, #1) by Pari Thomson

3. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

By: Pari Thomson

4.20

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more

Similar categories in Pari Thomson's Greenwild (Greenwild, #1) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

4. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • mystery
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Cover of The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2) by Pari Thomson

5. The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2)

By: Pari Thomson

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Daisy Thistledown's epic adventure continues in the spellbinding sequel to New York Times bestselle… read more

Similar categories in Pari Thomson's The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Menacing Manor (Sinister Summer #4) by Kiersten White

6. Menacing Manor (Sinister Summer #4)

By: Kiersten White

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The penultimate adventure finds the Sinister-Winterbottoms at the manor of Mr. Frank and Dr. Stein!… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Menacing Manor (Sinister Summer #4) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien

7. The Bellwoods Game

By: Celia Krampien

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Doll Bones and Hocus Pocus , this “beautifully creepy” ( Kirkus Reviews ), high… read more

Similar categories in Celia Krampien's The Bellwoods Game book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall by Ali Standish

8. The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall

By: Ali Standish

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children… read more

Similar categories in Ali Standish's The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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9. Buffalo Fluffalo

By: Bess Kalb

4.16

Format: None pages, None

Introducing a sweet and silly buffalo who tries to bluff and fluff his way into being bigger than h… read more

Similar categories in Bess Kalb's Buffalo Fluffalo book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Second Story (The Magic Misfits, #2) by Neil Patrick Harris

10. The Second Story (The Magic Misfits, #2)

By: Neil Patrick Harris

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in an orphanage, Leila was bullied for being different. But she turned her hardship into… read more

Similar categories in Neil Patrick Harris's The Second Story (The Magic Misfits, #2) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found by Jordan Lees

11. The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

By: Jordan Lees

4.32

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

A boy who doesn't believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his mind. Eleven-year-… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Lees's The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1) by Kiersten White

12. Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1)

By: Kiersten White

3.75

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists! Meet the Sinist… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5) by Anna     James

13. The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5)

By: Anna James

4.17

Format: None pages, None

A magical botanist A peculiar potion A secret garden A famous monster A return to the underlibr… read more

Similar categories in Anna James's The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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14. Dust & Grim

By: Chuck Wendig

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade adventure about rival siblings running a monster mortuary.​Thirteen-year-old Molly d… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Dust & Grim book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings, #2) by Claribel A. Ortega

15. The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings, #2)

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Seven Salazar is a Spare. And now, she's the most famous Spare in the Twelve Towns, along with V… read more

Similar categories in Claribel A. Ortega's The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings, #2) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Spineless by Samantha San Miguel

16. Spineless

By: Samantha San Miguel

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This exciting middle-grade adventure is Hoot for the Gilded Age—with scientific discoveries, secret… read more

Similar categories in Samantha San Miguel's Spineless book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • family
  • fantasy
Cover of The Evil Secret Society of Cats, Vol. 1 (The Evil Secret Society of Cats, #1) by Pandania

17. The Evil Secret Society of Cats, Vol. 1 (The Evil Secret Society of Cats, #1)

By: Pandania

3.79

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

THERE'S A MEW VILLAIN IN TOWN “We will teach humans to fear the feline race!” They may seem cute… read more

Similar categories in Pandania's The Evil Secret Society of Cats, Vol. 1 (The Evil Secret Society of Cats, #1) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Momo Arashima Breaks the Mirror of the Sun (Momo Arashima, #2) by Misa Sugiura

18. Momo Arashima Breaks the Mirror of the Sun (Momo Arashima, #2)

By: Misa Sugiura

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the next book in the thrilling fantasy series filled with gods and monsters of Shinto mythology,… read more

Similar categories in Misa Sugiura's Momo Arashima Breaks the Mirror of the Sun (Momo Arashima, #2) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
Cover of The A&A Detective Agency: The Fairfleet Affair by K.H. Saxton

19. The A&A Detective Agency: The Fairfleet Affair

By: K.H. Saxton

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

  Follow clues, solve puzzles, crack the code... find the missing millionaire.   The celebrated mus… read more

Similar categories in K.H. Saxton's The A&A Detective Agency: The Fairfleet Affair book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind (Momo Arashima #1) by Misa Sugiura

20. Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind (Momo Arashima #1)

By: Misa Sugiura

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Momo wants for her twelfth birthday is a normal life--a life like everyone else's. At home, she… read more

Similar categories in Misa Sugiura's Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind (Momo Arashima #1) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Winnie Zeng Unleashes a Legend (Winnie Zeng #1) by Katie Zhao

21. Winnie Zeng Unleashes a Legend (Winnie Zeng #1)

By: Katie Zhao

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An epic new fantasy series inspired by Chinese mythology that #1 New York Times bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Katie Zhao's Winnie Zeng Unleashes a Legend (Winnie Zeng #1) book and Samantha San Miguel's Spineless

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy

19 Best fiction books like Spineless by Samantha San Miguel

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Library

Rebecca Stead

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

Beth Lincoln

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

Pari Thomson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2)

Pari Thomson

4.38

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16 best-selling fiction books like Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1) by Kiersten White

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The Mystery of Locked Rooms

Lindsay Currie

4.03

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The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

Lora Senf

4.04

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The Nighthouse Keeper (Blight Harbor)

Lora Senf

4.20

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Marshmallow & Jordan

Alina Chau

4.22

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