10 Best fantasy books like The Book of the Baku by R.L. Boyle

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The Book of the Baku

By: R.L. Boyle

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sean hasn’t spoken a word since he was put into care. When he is sent to live with his grandad, a r…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Book of the Baku by R.L. Boyle , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Dramarama

By: E. Lockhart

3.36

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Two theater-mad, self-invented fabulous Ohio teenagers. One boy, one girl. One gay, one straight. O… read more

Similar categories in E. Lockhart's Dramarama book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fiction
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2. The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #4)

By: Holly Black , Tony DiTerlizzi

3.95

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is… read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #4) book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #2)

By: Holly Black , Tony DiTerlizzi

3.87

Format: 144 pages,

we said no still you looked now instead someone gets cooked The Grace kids are just beginning to ge… read more

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4. Half Wild (The Half Bad Trilogy, #2)

By: Sally Green

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

"You will have a powerful Gift, but it's how you use it that will show you to be good or bad." In a… read more

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5. Half Lost (The Half Bad Trilogy, #3)

By: Sally Green

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the final battle. The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen… read more

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6. One of Us

By: Jeannie Waudby

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

When K narrowly survives a bomb attack, she agrees to go undercover to spy on the Brotherhood, the … read more

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7. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fiction
Cover of Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1) by Laura Sebastian

9. Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1)

By: Laura Sebastian

4.06

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sebastian's Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1) book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You've trained for this, my doves. You know who to strike. You know where they are vulnerable."

-Laura Sebastian, Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1)

"I’m here because I want to be. Because you are lightning– terrifying and beautiful and dangerous and bright all at once. And I wouldn’t wish you were anything else."

-Laura Sebastian, Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1)

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10. A Treason of Thorns

By: Laura E. Weymouth

3.44

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Violet Sterling has spent the last seven years in exile, longing to return to Burleigh House. One o… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Weymouth's A Treason of Thorns book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Hare House

By: Sally Hinchcliffe

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

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12. Lanny

By: Max Porter

4.06

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more

Similar categories in Max Porter's Lanny book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."

-Max Porter, Lanny

"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."

-Max Porter, Lanny

Cover of A Forest of Vanity and Valour (Levanthria, #1) by A.P. Beswick

13. A Forest of Vanity and Valour (Levanthria, #1)

By: A.P. Beswick

3.58

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

An aggressive debt collector banished from the kingdom. Now his life depends on his ability to help… read more

Similar categories in A.P. Beswick's A Forest of Vanity and Valour (Levanthria, #1) book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. The King Is Dead

By: Benjamin Dean

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this YA romantic thriller, James—the shy, handsome, mixed-race heir to the British throne—must c… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Tiger Daughter

By: Rebecca Lim

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

IBBY Honour List 2024 A Kirkus, Booklist, She Reads and Amazon Best Book of 2023 Winner, People's… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Lim's Tiger Daughter book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fiction
"It's aiming for the peaks,' I tell him, 'and swimming through the troughs so that there are moments where you can just float under the sun and see how far you've come."

-Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

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16. After the Forest

By: Kell Woods

3.81

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurt… read more

Similar categories in Kell Woods's After the Forest book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"And old enough to know that womenfolk have little enough power of their own. That is why they must have their charms and their tricks. Their books and their ink and blood. Their eyes, their smiles, t…"

-Kell Woods, After the Forest

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17. Exit Through the Gift Shop

By: Maryam Master

4.10

Format: None pages, ebook

Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name but you can call her Ana) is disc… read more

Similar categories in Maryam Master's Exit Through the Gift Shop book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fiction
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18. A Glasshouse of Stars

By: Shirley Marr

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Meixing Lim and her family have arrived at the New House in the New Land, inherited from First Uncl… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Marr's A Glasshouse of Stars book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It is then you understand that Kevin isn't angry at the world; he's angry at himself."

-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars

"The promise touches your face softly and wraps itself gently around you, planting a seed of hope in your heart."

-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars

"Are you scared of the darkness?" Kevin asks you. "No," you say. With your answer, the black sky is at once filled with a million galaxies. It is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen. "No," you…"

-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars

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19. Freshmen

By: Tom Ellen

3.45

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A laugh-out-loud, realistic portrayal of a freshman year in college for fans of Girls and Broad Cit… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ellen's Freshmen book and R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fiction
"The niche stuff is the best stuff."

-Tom Ellen, Freshmen

"It's fucking Donald Trump-level wankerdom."

-Tom Ellen, Freshmen

"What should I do?" I turned to Negin. "I don't know." "Are you a doctor or not?" I screeched. "As I have said a thousand times, I won't be a doctor for seven years."

-Tom Ellen, Freshmen

"Phones have caused all my uni dramas to date. You wouldn't catch Elizabeth Bennet sending a comedy guinea pig picture to Darcy. She'd have to paint it and then send it by horseman."

-Tom Ellen, Freshmen

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20. 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 R.L. Boyle's The Book of the Baku

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

Cover of The Book of the Baku by R.L. Boyle

21. The Book of the Baku

By: R.L. Boyle

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sean hasn’t spoken a word since he was put into care. When he is sent to live with his grandad, a r… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

17 Best fiction books like The Book of the Baku by R.L. Boyle

Transform Your Habits

Dramarama

E. Lockhart

3.36

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The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #4)

Holly Black , Tony DiTerlizzi

3.95

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This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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17 best-selling fiction books like This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

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This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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Blender Babies

Jon Athan

3.95

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Mine

L.M. Kaplin

3.96

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In The Tall Trees

Angel N. Van Atta

4.33

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