Books like The Golem and the Jinni
A golem and a jinni are released into 1890s New York, and their unlikely friendship illuminates the immigrant experience through the lens of myth.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
January Scaller, the ward of a wealthy collector in 1900s Vermont, finds a book about doors that open onto other worlds and starts to realise it has something to do with her own missing father.
Gods of Jade and Shadow
In 1920s Mexico, Casiopea Tun, the poor relation of a wealthy family, opens a chest in her grandfather's room and frees a Maya god of death, who drags her across the country to recover his stolen body parts.
The Map of Salt and Stars
A Syrian girl fleeing war and a medieval mapmaker's journey echo across eight centuries.
The Night Circus
Two young illusionists, bound since childhood to a duel whose rules no one will explain, use a black-and-white circus that opens only at night as their arena and fall in love inside it.
American Gods
Shadow Moon, released from prison after his wife's death, takes a job with a con man called Mr Wednesday and finds himself caught up in a war between the old gods immigrants brought to America and the new gods of technology and media.
The Familiar
In Golden Age Madrid, a scullery maid hiding her Jewish ancestry is pushed to perform her small miracles for ambitious nobles, under the eye of the Inquisition and an immortal familiar.
The Starless Sea
A graduate student finds an unmarked library book that contains a scene from his own childhood, and following it leads him through a painted door to a vast underground world of stories beside a sea of honey.
Shadowshaper
Sierra Santiago, starting her summer painting a mural in Brooklyn, notices the murals in her neighbourhood fading and weeping, and learns her family has a secret that ties spirits to art.
Alif the Unseen
Alif, a young grey-hat hacker in an unnamed Gulf emirate, hides his clients from the state's security service until a broken love affair puts him in its sights, along with a mysterious old book, the Thousand and One Days.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
An eighteenth-century French village girl trades her soul for immortality on the condition that everyone she meets forgets her, and three hundred years later a boy in a New York bookshop says hello.
Interview with the Vampire
In a San Francisco room, a vampire tells a young reporter his story, from his making on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation to his years with Lestat and the child vampire Claudia.
One Thousand and One Nights
To stave off her execution, Scheherazade tells the king a new story every night, and her nested tales of jinn, merchants and voyagers become a monument to the power of storytelling.