10 must-read fantasy books like 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café by Julian Sedgwick

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100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

By: Julian Sedgwick

4.10

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

Abducted by spirits from his village, lost boy Akira must make the long journey in north Japan to f…

If you liked the fantasy plot in 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café by Julian Sedgwick , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of DallerGut Dream Department Store by Lee Mi-ye

1. DallerGut Dream Department Store

By: Lee Mi-ye

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD|| In a mysterious town that lies h… read more

Similar categories in Lee Mi-ye's DallerGut Dream Department Store book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I don't think humans are some self-driving car racing toward the finish line. We must own our lives, start the engine ourselves, and sometimes put on brakes."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I believe there are two ways to love your life, Penny. The first is to work hard to change your life when you feel unsatisfied.' 'That seems about right.' Penny nods. 'The second option may look easi…"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

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2. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

Similar categories in Satoshi Yagisawa's More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • romance
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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3. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Goodfellow's The Final Year book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • young adult
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4. Crossing the Line

By: Tia Fisher

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. … read more

Similar categories in Tia Fisher's Crossing the Line book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • young adult
Cover of The Boy Lost in the Maze by Joseph Coelho

5. The Boy Lost in the Maze

By: Joseph Coelho

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In … read more

Similar categories in Joseph Coelho's The Boy Lost in the Maze book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
  • young adult
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6. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
  • young adult
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7. Tyger

By: S.F. Said

4.17

Format: 304 pages, None

In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more

Similar categories in S.F. Said's Tyger book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates) by Sam Sedgman

8. The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates)

By: Sam Sedgman

4.30

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chases, hidden codes and mind-bending science, The Clockw… read more

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9. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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10. A Perfect Day to Be Alone

By: Nanae Aoyama

3.12

Format: 160 pages, ebook

It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in… read more

Similar categories in Nanae Aoyama's A Perfect Day to Be Alone book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • japanese literature
  • japan
"I feel like maybe I should use up all my sadness now while I'm young. So, I don't end up all miserable when I'm old."

-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone

"Is that how it feels to you? Oh, you bet. Pain, suffering - that stuff's always scary, no matter how long you've been around."

-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone

Cover of A Season for Scandal (The Agency for Scandal, #2) by Laura  Wood

11. A Season for Scandal (The Agency for Scandal, #2)

By: Laura Wood

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Wood's A Season for Scandal (The Agency for Scandal, #2) book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • romance
  • young adult
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12. On Silver Tides

By: Sylvia Bishop

4.06

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Full of heart, drama and beauty, this sweeping fantasy inspired by ancient folklore will draw you i… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Bishop's On Silver Tides book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of I Went To See My Father by Shin Kyung-Sook

13. I Went To See My Father

By: Shin Kyung-Sook

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After… read more

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14. Stitch

By: Pádraig Kenny

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

A compelling, atmospheric and gothic Frankenstein -inspired adventure by an award-winning Irish aut… read more

Similar categories in Pádraig Kenny's Stitch book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
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15. Where the Heart Should Be

By: Sarah Crossan

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • romance
  • young adult
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16. 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

By: Julian Sedgwick

4.10

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

Abducted by spirits from his village, lost boy Akira must make the long journey in north Japan to f… read more

Similar categories in Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • romance
  • time travel
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • fantasy
  • manga
  • illness
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17. Island of Whispers

By: Frances Hardinge

4.35

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett unite for the first time to conju… read more

Similar categories in Frances Hardinge's Island of Whispers book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Kindness is not weakness. To be kind in this unkind world is walking through a battlefield without armour or sword. It takes courage and strength to be kind."

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"They do not touch you. But they will trick you into touching them. Falter-moths, grief-winged. Things of doubt and confusion that feed on loss. If you touch them, they will feed on you..."

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"There was a trick to seeing and hearing the Dead, like the trick to falling asleep. You had to not quite listen, not quite look, not quite think. You let the edges of your mind slip into the right so…"

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"Everywhere Milo saw traces of his father - his chair, his bowl, the roof he had planned to mend. The worst thing about losing somebody is that, even after you survive a difficult day, the next mornin…"

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

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18. Secrets of the Snakestone

By: Piu DasGupta

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Zélie is often accused of being a witch, but she doesn’t believe in magic. Until Jules climbs up fr… read more

Similar categories in Piu DasGupta's Secrets of the Snakestone book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
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19. Feather

By: M.G. Leonard

4.61

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

The Twitchers have one last mystery to solve – and this time it's a heist! The final unputdownable … read more

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20. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • fantasy
  • young adult
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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21. Us in the Before and After

By: Jenny Valentine

4.10

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

A tear-jerking, heart-breakingly beautiful novel from the award-winning Jenny Valentine, perfect fo… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Valentine's Us in the Before and After book and Julian Sedgwick's 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café

  • young adult

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Matt Goodfellow

4.71

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Tia Fisher

4.28

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3.82

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Kim Ho-yeon

4.04

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