Books like The Wizard's Bakery
Fleeing a home that has turned against him, a teenage boy hides out in the twenty-four-hour bakery in his Seoul neighbourhood, where a gruff wizard and his blue-haired assistant sell pastries baked with magic, at a price.
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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.
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Fourteen-year-old Mona's only magic is making bread do what she wants, so finding a dead girl on the floor of her aunt's bakery is the start of more trouble than she bargained for, in a city where wizards are vanishing.
The Vegetarian
A Korean woman stops eating meat, and her quiet refusal escalates into a crisis that consumes her family and transforms her body into something inhuman.
Please Look After Mom
When their sixty-nine-year-old mother vanishes in a crowded Seoul subway station, her husband and grown children search the city and realise how little they knew about her.
Legendborn
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews joins a residential program at the University of North Carolina, witnesses a magical attack on her first night and infiltrates the Legendborn, a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights.
City of Bones
Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray watches three teenagers kill a boy in a New York nightclub, a murder no one else can see, and when her mother vanishes she is pulled into the hidden world of the Shadowhunters.
Solo Leveling
In a world where gates to monster-filled dungeons have opened, Sung Jinwoo, the weakest of the hunters, survives a deadly dungeon and finds he can level up alone.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
On the eve of her ninth birthday in Los Angeles, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's lemon cake and tastes her mother's despair, and from then on every bite of food tells her how the cook was feeling.
Wicked Lovely
Aislinn, who has always been able to see faeries and has kept it secret, is chosen by Keenan, the Summer King, as the mortal girl who may become his queen.
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Kokoro has stopped going to school after being bullied, until the mirror in her bedroom begins to shine and pulls her into a castle where six other teenagers have a year to find a hidden key that grants one wish.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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.
Crying in H Mart
The Japanese Breakfast frontwoman writes about her Korean mother's cancer and death, and about what Korean food means when the person who taught you to eat it is gone.