Books like 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.
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Inkheart
Meggie's father Mo, a bookbinder, can read characters out of books and into the world, and years ago he read a villain named Capricorn out of a novel called Inkheart, who now wants him back.
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.
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.
The Neverending Story
A bullied German schoolboy steals a book and reads himself into the empty country of Fantastica, where the Childlike Empress is dying because no one is still imagining her.
The Astral Library
Alix Watson, who grew up in foster care and is barely getting by on odd jobs, stumbles into the Astral Library, a magical refuge where people go to live inside books, just as something attacks it and its Librarian needs her help.
Myst: The Book of Atrus
Raised by his grandmother in a desert fissure, young Atrus is claimed by his father Gehn, who takes him underground to the ruined city of D'ni to learn the art of writing books that open onto other worlds.
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.
The Talisman
Jack Sawyer, twelve, whose actress mother is dying in an off-season New Hampshire resort hotel, sets out across America and the Territories, a world alongside ours, to find the talisman that could save her.
The Binding
Emmett Farmer is sent to apprentice with a bookbinder in a world where books are made from people's painful memories, which are then gone for good, and he finds one with his own name in it.
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.
Chosen Ones
Ten years after five teenagers prophesied to save the world defeated the Dark One, Sloane, one of them, still can't move on, and then the chosen ones are pulled into another world.
The Once and Future Witches
In 1893, three estranged sisters arrive separately in the city of New Salem and get swept up in the suffrage movement, which they intend to win with witchcraft people thought had been burned out of the world.