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Books like Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

Jessica Townsend · 2017 · US · fantasy · young adult
Book 1 of 4 in Nevermoor
★ 4.31 Goodreads · 79,667 ratings

A cursed girl doomed to die on her eleventh birthday is whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must pass four dangerous trials to join its most prestigious society.

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12 books for readers of Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart · 2007 · US 96% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 180,442 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Mysterious Benedict Society
shares: children, found family, adventure · easy read, clear-cut

Four gifted children who answer a newspaper ad for puzzle-solvers are recruited by the eccentric Mr. Benedict and sent undercover into an island school where hidden messages are being broadcast into people's minds.

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937 · UK 96% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads
shares: cosy, whimsical, adventure · easy read, speculative

A comfort-loving hobbit is recruited by a wizard and thirteen dwarves to steal treasure from a dragon, and the journey transforms him utterly.

The Lives of Christopher Chant

Diana Wynne Jones · 1988 · UK 96% match ★ 4.24 Goodreads · 24,330 ratings
Book 4 of 6 in Chrestomanci
shares: children, whimsical, adventure, school · speculative, easy read

Christopher Chant, a lonely boy in a well-off family, can walk in his dreams into other worlds, and his charming uncle Ralph starts asking him to fetch things from them.

Threadbare

Andrew Seiple · 2017 · US 96% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 3,247 ratings
shares: children, found family, whimsical · speculative, easy read

A teddy bear made by a magical toymaker wakes up in a world of game-like levels and classes, and sets out to protect the little girl who owns him.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 1900 · US 96% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 527,159 ratings
Book 1 of 14 in Oz
shares: children, whimsical, adventure · easy read, speculative

A Kansas farm girl and her dog are carried by a cyclone to a country of witches and talking scarecrows and asked to walk a yellow road to a wizard who may be able to send her home.

Unsouled

Will Wight · 2016 · US 96% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 64,065 ratings
Book 1 of 12 in Cradle
shares: easy read, speculative

A boy born without the ability to use his world's magic system sets out to prove that willpower can overcome any limitation.

The House Witch

Delemhach · 2022 · Canada 96% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 39,924 ratings
shares: cosy, found family, magic · easy read, warm

Finlay Ashowan, the new royal cook of Daxaria, wants only to keep to his kitchen and his secrets, but the magic he cooks into his food soon draws the knights and nobles of the castle to his door.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J.K. Rowling · 1997 · UK 95% match ★ 4.47 Goodreads · 11,881,750 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in Harry Potter
shares: whimsical, magic, school · easy read, speculative

An orphaned boy raised under a staircase learns on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard, and takes a train to a Scottish school that has been waiting for him.

Howl's Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones · 1986 · UK 95% match ★ 4.28 Goodreads · 477,866 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
shares: cosy, whimsical, magic · easy read, speculative

A young hatmaker cursed by a witch to be an old woman takes shelter in the walking castle of a vain young wizard whose demon is burning through a contract with his heart.

Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!

Terry Brooks · 1986 · US 95% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 40,007 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Magic Kingdom of Landover
shares: whimsical, magic, witty · easy read, speculative

A grieving Chicago lawyer buys a magic kingdom from a department-store catalogue and discovers his new realm is broke, falling apart, and in need of a real king.

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas · 2012 · US 94% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 2,728,581 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Throne of Glass
shares: tournament, magic · easy read, speculative

An eighteen-year-old assassin pulled from a salt mine competes to become the king's champion, while something in the glass castle kills the other contestants one by one.

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill · 2016 · US 94% match ★ 4.11 Goodreads · 120,606 ratings
shares: children, found family, whimsical · warm, speculative

Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby in the forest for the witch they fear, and Xan, the kindly witch who actually rescues the babies, accidentally feeds one of them moonlight and fills her with magic.