16 Top fantasy books like The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

Cover of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

The Graveyard Book

By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean

4.16

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly n…

"Leave no path untaken."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself wih you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"You are almost never cool to your children."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean , here is a list of 16 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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  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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 Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere by Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Glenn Fabry

2. 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

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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 Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1) by Diana Wynne Jones

3. 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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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • 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 The Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders, #1) by Peter Lerangis, Mike Reagan

4. The Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders, #1)

By: Peter Lerangis , Mike Reagan

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One Boy Jack McKinley is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary problem. In a few months, he’s go… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence (Zodiac Legacy, #1) by Stan Lee, Andie Tong, Stuart Moore

5. The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence (Zodiac Legacy, #1)

By: Stan Lee , Andie Tong , Stuart Moore

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When twelve magical superpowers are unleashed on the world, a Chinese-America teenager named Steven… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

6. The Girl Who Drank the Moon

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.12

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in th… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sorrow is dangerous."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"Magic and madness are link after all."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"Death is always sudden, even when it isn't"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"It was wrong not to be curious, it was wrong not to wonder."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Cover of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

7. The Graveyard Book

By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean

4.16

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly n… read more

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book book and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Leave no path untaken."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself wih you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"You are almost never cool to your children."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Cover of Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara Pascoe

8. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

9. A Shadow Bright and Burning (Kingdom on Fire, #1)

By: Jessica Cluess

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Library Binding

I am Henrietta Howel. The first female sorcerer. The prophesied one. Or am I? Henrietta Howel can b… read more

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10. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more

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11. One Good Dragon Deserves Another (Heartstrikers, #2)

By: Rachel Aaron

4.65

Format: None pages,

After barely escaping the machinations of his terrifying mother, two all knowing seers, and countle… read more

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12. The Magic Misfits (Magic Misfits #1)

By: Neil Patrick Harris

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

From beloved award-winning actor, Neil Patrick Harris, comes the magical first book in a new series… read more

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Cover of A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

13. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

By: T. Kingfisher

4.09

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

2021 LODESTAR AWARD for BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards char… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking book and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"After a minute, I said, “I never wanted to be a hero."

-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

"She shouldn't have had to be a hero.' 'No,' said the Duchess, 'no, no one should."

-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

"I expect this won’t be your last set of medals, my dear. Heroism is an unfortunate habit."

-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

"...but hey, once a baker, always a baker. If I was going to get thrown in the dungeon, at least I was going to leave a trail of quality pastries behind me."

-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

Cover of Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

14. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Cover of Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

15. 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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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • 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 What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

16. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

17. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

Cover of Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) by Travis Baldree

18. Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)

By: Travis Baldree

4.12

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.The battl… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

19. Nettle & Bone

By: T. Kingfisher

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more

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  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

Cover of In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

20. In the Lives of Puppets

By: T.J. Klune

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly in… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Hap?"

-T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

"I found you. I fixed you. I saved you, but you did the same for me."

-T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

"Humans were foolish. Careless. Cruel. But only a few. Most were full of light."

-T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

"I've made my choice. I need you to make yours. You're not a puppet. Not anymore."

-T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

Cover of Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1) by Roshani Chokshi

21. Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

By: Roshani Chokshi

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While he… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Words had their own power."

-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

"It is not failure to fail."

-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

"Love looked different to everyone."

-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

"The world had a tendency to trick people."

-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

17 Best fiction books like The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

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

Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman

4.26

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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Mike Carey , Neil Gaiman , Glenn Fabry

4.29

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

Diana Wynne Jones

4.29

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The Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders, #1)

Peter Lerangis , Mike Reagan

3.85

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20 Top fiction books like Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Pierce Brown

4.27

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Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)

Pierce Brown

None

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The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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