6 must-read young adult books like Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri

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Never the Wind

By: Francesco Dimitri

4.00

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspecti…

"Praise God, never the wind- for the wind may answer"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

"There was only another time in my life when I felt like that: last year, the morning after Mum died, when I woke up with my heart in tatters to a world that had not taken notice. Sparrows were chirping, newspapers were out. The season hadn’t turned overnight. It was obscene."

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

"It is a mystery how we never manage to pack as much living into winter as we do into summer, when apparently we idle around doing little else than play and rest. Days last for ever, but the end too soon as if each of them were a whole life lived, from birth to death, to rebirth the next morning. Winter hours might be busy, but summer hours are bottomless."

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

If you liked the young adult plot in Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Waking Land (The Waking Land, #1)

By: Callie Bates

3.39

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lady Elanna Valtai is fiercely devoted to the King who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies… read more

Similar categories in Callie Bates's The Waking Land (The Waking Land, #1) book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"This is why magic is dangerous. It lures you in. It makes you curious."

-Callie Bates, The Waking Land (The Waking Land, #1)

"Unhappiness in one place doesn't breed happiness elsewhere. It just breeds more unhappiness."

-Callie Bates, The Waking Land (The Waking Land, #1)

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2. All That She Can See

By: Carrie Hope Fletcher

3.47

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Feelings are part of life - feelings are life. If you take away what people feel, you take away any… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Hope Fletcher's All That She Can See book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
"To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet."

-Carrie Hope Fletcher, All That She Can See

"I had as much influence over Loneliness as it had over me! I can see that now. No one can help how they feel so I was stuck with Loneliness. But I had a choice. I could let Loneliness consume me for …"

-Carrie Hope Fletcher, All That She Can See

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3. God: A Story of Revelation

By: Deepak Chopra

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Deepak Chopra, whose extraordinary Enlightenment series includes the phenomenal New York Timesbests… read more

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4. Fly by Night (Fly by Night, #1)

By: Frances Hardinge

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Mosca Mye hasn't got much. Her cruel uncle keeps her locked up in his mill, and her… read more

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5. Conspiracy of Ravens (The Shadow, #2)

By: Lila Bowen

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Monsters, magic and the supernatural combine in this sequel to Wake of Vultures, in which a young w… read more

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6. Green

By: None

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A novel of race and privilege in America that you haven't seen before: a coming-of-age story about … read more

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7. Printer's Devil Court

By: Susan Hill

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A mysterious manuscript lands on the desk of the step-son of the late Dr Hugh Meredith, a country d… read more

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8. The Lost History of Stars

By: Dave Boling

3.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From a forgotten moment in history comes an inspiring novel about finding strength and courage in t… read more

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9. 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 Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"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

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10. 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

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  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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

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11. The Ghost Theatre

By: Mat Osman

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A wild and hallucinatory reimagining of Elizabethan London, with its bird worshippers, famed child … read more

Similar categories in Mat Osman's The Ghost Theatre book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. The Spirit Engineer

By: A.J. West

3.71

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Belfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with sp… read more

Similar categories in A.J. West's The Spirit Engineer book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Death is a beginning."

-A.J. West, The Spirit Engineer

"It is a brave thing to die."

-A.J. West, The Spirit Engineer

"If ghosts are real, death is not."

-A.J. West, The Spirit Engineer

"A mystery is only a fact in disguise"

-A.J. West, The Spirit Engineer

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13. All the Murmuring Bones

By: A.G. Slatter

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Long ago Miren O'Malley's family prospered due to a deal struck with the Mer: safety for their ship… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's All the Murmuring Bones book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A secret seldom survives being shared."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"All the waters in the world are joined."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"She's dead, taking all my answers with her."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"The prince of assassins felled so low by a woman and a tiny knife."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

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14. Margarettown

By: Gabrielle Zevin

3.48

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Margarettown... is a person, a place, a love story. It could be about anyone--you, your parents, yo… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

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15. And Put Away Childish Things

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bodie’s been called into the delightful fantasy world of his grandmother’s beloved children’s… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's And Put Away Childish Things book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Ah, yes, hindsight, always my weapon of choice."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes there's a place where fiction and reality meet. Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes a wardrobe is just a wardrobe. Sometimes books are just books. That's why we call it fiction."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

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16. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • horror
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Under the Earth, Over the Sky

By: Emily McCosh

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In the woods where human lands meet fae, an ancient king born before the history of men finds a dyi… read more

Similar categories in Emily McCosh's Under the Earth, Over the Sky book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What must the human have thought to gaze into the trees and see the same woods gazing at him in return?"

-Emily McCosh, Under the Earth, Over the Sky

"Do you truly believe I would break my magic for anyone who is not the most precious child in all these lands or the next?"

-Emily McCosh, Under the Earth, Over the Sky

"You said I was your son... You said the forest made me for you. You said I was special because I was yours and the forest made me for you. But I'm not..."

-Emily McCosh, Under the Earth, Over the Sky

"Round eyes blink up at him, and Iohmar is struck by the color - brown as the rich soils of his mountains stretching to the sky, browner than a fawn's coat and just as warm."

-Emily McCosh, Under the Earth, Over the Sky

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18. The Third Daughter (Betrayal Prophecies, #1)

By: Adrienne Tooley

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping YA fantasy about legacy, betrayal, sisterhood, and politicizing emotion in the quest for… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's The Third Daughter (Betrayal Prophecies, #1) book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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19. There's Something Wrong With The Cats

By: C.J. Powell

4.05

Format: None pages, ebook

Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, it mutated it into a vigilante crime fighter. Dan's cats are acti… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Powell's There's Something Wrong With The Cats book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. A Market of Dreams and Destiny

By: Trip Galey

3.90

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Nominated for the 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature! Enter the bazaar of the bi… read more

Similar categories in Trip Galey's A Market of Dreams and Destiny book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Deri was well and truly caught, a fly in the web of words and wonder spun by the actors on the stage."

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"Woven of wise women’s insight and young men’s dreams, of societal expectations and half-moon’s beams, Maurlocke’s robe habitually changed its form to match the expectations of the merchant’s customer…"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"But it was humbling. Awe-inspiring, even. There was a gravity about the stone, a surreal sense of vastness. And the resonant sense of lost love, the sheer depth of it reverberated through the stone, …"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

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22. Killing Jericho (Scott Jericho #1)

By: Will Harker

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder this twisted demands a new kind of detective Fresh out of prison, former Detective Consta… read more

Similar categories in Will Harker's Killing Jericho (Scott Jericho #1) book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

By: Rowenna Miller

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

"A warm-hearted yet fierce fairy tale."―H. G. Parry In the early 1900s, two sisters must navigat… read more

Similar categories in Rowenna Miller's The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mama, is that Aunt Eula’s chicken recipe?"

-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

" Where flowers bloom And leaves are ever green Fortune’s winds are shifting By fairy touch unseen —Folk song"

-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

" Set the table, china fine Acorn cup and dewdrop wine Crumbs of cake, berries wild High tea for Fae beguiled --- Children's rhyme"

-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

" Here's to thee, old apple-tree, To buds in the spring and roots in the loam, To the Fae who brings the apples home. ---Wassail song"

-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

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24. The Valkyrie

By: Kate Heartfield

3.46

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the All-Father, chooser of the slain. But now she too has f… read more

Similar categories in Kate Heartfield's The Valkyrie book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. Never the Wind

By: Francesco Dimitri

4.00

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspecti… read more

Similar categories in Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • gothic
  • magical realism
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Praise God, never the wind- for the wind may answer"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

"There was only another time in my life when I felt like that: last year, the morning after Mum died, when I woke up with my heart in tatters to a world that had not taken notice. Sparrows were chirpi…"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

"It is a mystery how we never manage to pack as much living into winter as we do into summer, when apparently we idle around doing little else than play and rest. Days last for ever, but the end too s…"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

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26. The Monstrous Kind

By: Lydia Gregovic

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An atmospheric, haunting, romantasy inspired by Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, set in a Regen… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Gregovic's The Monstrous Kind book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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27. The Other Lives of Miss Emily White

By: A.J. Elwood

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An eerie tale of young girls’ obsession and what happens when it grows out of hand, perfect for fan… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Elwood's The Other Lives of Miss Emily White book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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28. The Sun Collective

By: Charles Baxter

3.28

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--a tim… read more

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  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. The Dissonance

By: Shaun Hamill

3.99

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters comes an epic contemporary fantasy: a story of… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Hamill's The Dissonance book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • magical realism
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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31. Let Gravity Seize the Dead

By: Darrin Doyle

3.84

Format: 97 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2007, Beck Randall moves with his wife and teenage daughters into a long-abandoned cabin deep in… read more

Similar categories in Darrin Doyle's Let Gravity Seize the Dead book and Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind

  • historical fiction
  • horror

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