18 best-selling fantasy books like Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Cover of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere

By: Neil Gaiman

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Neil Gaiman’s dark classic of modern fantasy follows the journey of Richard Mayhew as he becomes em…

"Now me,"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

"Now me,"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

"Now me,"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

"Mind the gap!"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

If you liked the fantasy plot in Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

1. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

By: Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman

4.26

Format: 491 pages, Mass Market Paperback

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable g… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It was a nice day."

-Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

"What’s your name, lad?"

-Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

"Woss the matter with you?"

-Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

"Never f*!k with the ineffable."

-Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Cover of A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin

2. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.01

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Master, I go hunting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

Cover of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere by Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Glenn Fabry

3. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

By: Mike Carey , Neil Gaiman , Glenn Fabry

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Graphic adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere collects all nine issues of the Vertigo maxiseries. … read more

Similar categories in Mike Carey's Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere book and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

  • urban fantasy
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Richard put his head on one side. 'Excuse me,' he said. 'I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?' 'Possible, but very unlikely. Why?' 'Well,' said Richard. 'One of us must …"

-Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

"The world seems to work in predictable ways, and you think you see the pattern. But that's fatal. Because it's only a pattern until you meet the first event that doesn't fit. And by then it's too lat…"

-Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Cover of Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman

4. Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

By: Neil Gaiman

4.17

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monste… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Now me,"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"Mind the gap!"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"So many things to see, people to do."

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"Sometimes there is nothing you can do."

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

Cover of Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) by Robin Hobb

5. Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

By: Robin Hobb

4.18

Format: None pages, None

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one youn… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Fa!"

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"But in my heart, when I said “my king,"

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years."

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it."

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1) by Diana Wynne Jones

6. Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

By: Diana Wynne Jones

4.29

Format: 329 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably … read more

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  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Annoyed?"

-Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

"I feel ill,"

-Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

"Not likely!"

-Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

"I only want to catch you,"

-Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

Cover of All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells

7. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

By: Martha Wells

4.15

Format: 144 pages, ebook

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) book and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Cover of Mort (Death, #1; Discworld, #4) by Terry Pratchett

8. Mort (Death, #1; Discworld, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, whe… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

9. The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.48

Format: 541 pages, Hardcover

What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland? Mistborn For a thousand years the ash f… read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Visit?"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

"How do you do that?"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

"There's always another secret.' -Kelsier"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

"Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

Cover of The Gunslinger by Stephen        King

10. The Gunslinger

By: Stephen King

3.56

Format: None pages,

Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fictionin 1978, the p… read more

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  • adventure
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

11. The Night Circus

By: Erin Morgenstern

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday… read more

Similar categories in Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus book and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • young adult

12. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)

By: Philip Pullman

3.88

Format: 588 pages,

Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's… read more

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13. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more

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14. The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in… read more

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Cover of Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1) by Terry Pratchett

15. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

Cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams

16. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

By: Douglas Adams

4.23

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked o… read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Don't Panic."

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

"Ow! My brains!"

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

"But the plans were on display…"

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

"How many roads must a man walk down?"

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Cover of Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

17. Tress of the Emerald Sea

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.40

Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, w… read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They supposedly had golden hair, like yours, the color of sunlight."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"Well, this isn't the part of the story where you ask questions. So kindly keep them to yourself."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"If we let it, memory can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

Cover of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

18. Piranesi

By: Susanna Clarke

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows."

-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

"May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty."

-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

"The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end."

-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

"It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted."

-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

Cover of Babel by R.F. Kuang

19. Babel

By: R.F. Kuang

4.18

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with stu… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

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