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A wry, enchanting collection where polite Regency society masks the wild, capricious magic of English folklore. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories.
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Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 02
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Susanna Clarke
A sprawling, footnote-laden descent into a fog-drenched nineteenth-century England where magic is both a dry academic pursuit and a wild, dangerous force.
- 03
Sorcerer to the Crown
Zen Cho
A sparkling, magical comedy of manners that hides a razor-sharp critique of empire beneath its polite drawing-room banter.
- 04
A stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
A lush, dreamlike love letter to language that haunts the reader long after the final page is turned.
- 05
Fragile Things
Neil Gaiman
A cabinet of curiosities where every drawer opens into a dark, dreamlike fairy tale.
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Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
A darkly playful plunge into a world where suburban anxieties and teenage sleepovers collide with ghosts, superheroes, and the uncanny.
- 07
The Language of Thorns
Leigh Bardugo
A beautifully dark and subversive collection of fairy tales that lures you into the woods and teaches you how to bite back.
- 08
New Amsterdam
Elizabeth Bear
A gaslit, world-weary magical procedural where a formidable sorceress and an immortal exile seek justice in a shadowy alternate America.
- 09
The Fairy Godmother
Mercedes Lackey
A clever, cozy romp that pulls back the curtain on fairy tales to reveal the hard work and practical magic required to secure a happily-ever-after.
- 10
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
A lush, defiant love letter to the magic of storytelling and the hidden thresholds that lead us to where we belong.
- 11
The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie
A patient, ancient consciousness watches a human tragedy unfold in a hypnotic tale of power, language, and inevitable consequence.
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Piranesi
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A hypnotic, puzzle-box journal of a beautiful, flooded labyrinth that slowly reveals a heartbreaking mystery.
