13 must-read fiction books like The Switch by Anthony Horowitz

The Switch

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Tad Spencer's father denies him a trip to a theme park, Tad wishes he were someone else. The n…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Switch by Anthony Horowitz , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Stig of the Dump by Clive King

1. Stig of the Dump

By: Clive King

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Barney is a solitary eight-year-old, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the … read more

Similar categories in Clive King's Stig of the Dump book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Skellig (Skellig, #1) by David Almond

2. Skellig (Skellig, #1)

By: David Almond

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Micha… read more

Similar categories in David Almond's Skellig (Skellig, #1) book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"There's no end to evolution."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53"

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"Truth and dreams are always getting muddled."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"Can love help a person to get better?’ I asked."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

Cover of The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3. The Girl of Ink and Stars

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.68

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017, and the British Book Awards' Children's Book… read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Girl of Ink and Stars book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

Cover of The Understudy by David Nicholls

4. The Understudy

By: David Nicholls

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Recently divorced actor Stephen C. McQueen (no relation, unfortunately) seems to have a knack for b… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's The Understudy book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • fiction
Cover of War Horse (War Horse, #1) by Michael Morpurgo

5. War Horse (War Horse, #1)

By: Michael Morpurgo

4.15

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal wit… read more

Similar categories in Michael Morpurgo's War Horse (War Horse, #1) book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"cause when there's life there's still hope"

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less."

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other"

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer."

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

Cover of An Inspector Calls by None

6. An Inspector Calls

By: None

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more

Similar categories in None's An Inspector Calls book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • mystery
  • fiction

7. The Switch

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Tad Spencer's father denies him a trip to a theme park, Tad wishes he were someone else. The n… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's The Switch book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy

8. The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues, #3)

By: Peter Lerangis

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreli… read more

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9. Starter for Ten

By: David Nicholls

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first ter… read more

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10. RatBurger

By: David Walliams

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The fifth screamingly funny novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing ch… read more

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11. Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin, #2)

By: Maurice Leblanc

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aris… read more

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12. Time And The Conways

By: None

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Time and the Conways follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving… read more

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13. Five on a Treasure Island (Famous Five, #1)

By: Enid Blyton

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George an… read more

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14. The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues, #1)

By: Rick Riordan

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decisio… read more

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Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

15. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • fiction
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

Cover of We Play Games by Sarah A. Denzil

16. We Play Games

By: Sarah A. Denzil

3.51

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

When the rules turn deadly, winning is everything. Only available from Audible, a gripping psych… read more

Similar categories in Sarah A. Denzil's We Play Games book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Haunting of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #1) by Phil Hickes

17. The Haunting of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #1)

By: Phil Hickes

4.13

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when sh… read more

Similar categories in Phil Hickes's The Haunting of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #1) book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1) by Caimh McDonnell

18. Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

4.41

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

For Detective Bunny McGarry, life is complicated, and it is about to get more so.It’s 1999 and his … read more

Similar categories in Caimh McDonnell's Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1) book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • mystery
  • fiction
"My point is, I’m a fan of music, but jazz isn’t music. Jazz is some cockwomble in a beret, wanking himself off with a saxophone."

-Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1)

Cover of The Bewitching of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #2) by Phil Hickes

19. The Bewitching of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #2)

By: Phil Hickes

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the hol… read more

Similar categories in Phil Hickes's The Bewitching of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #2) book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1) by Lisa Jewell

20. Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1)

By: Lisa Jewell

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In her most imaginative novel yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell (None of This … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1) book and Anthony Horowitz's The Switch

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction

7 Top fantasy books like The Switch by Anthony Horowitz

Transform Your Habits

Stig of the Dump

Clive King

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Skellig (Skellig, #1)

David Almond

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Girl of Ink and Stars

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.68

The Switch

Anthony Horowitz

3.75

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14 Top fiction books like War Horse (War Horse, #1) by Michael Morpurgo

Transform Your Habits

Soldier Dog

Sam Angus

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Blind Beauty

K.M. Peyton

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Worth

A. LaFaye

4.20

None

Nina Bawden

None

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