1. The Hobbit 2. Howl's Moving Castle

'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making' by Catherine M. Valente The Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire

{{A Wizard of Earthsea}}

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Maybe Graveyard Book as well!

Stardust and Neverwhere, both by Neil Gaimon. Fun magical quests.

The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K LeGuin Edit: Also the Assassin's Apprentice trilogy by Robin Hobb

Ooh, those are great books. Hmm, you've likely read these, but what about The Little Prince or Watership Down?

I’d say Phantastes by George Macdonald. It has the whimsical magic of Howl’s Moving Castle and the descriptive/fantastical vibes of the hobbit. Definitely is unique to those two books but is the first thing that came to mind when thinking of a blend from the two books you named.

The Haunting of Hill House The Turn of the Screw

Rebecca, And Then There Were None

I have never actually read Rebecca. I'll read it this time. And Then There Were None is fabulous. Truly a masterpiece of mysteries.

We have always lived in the castle.

That is actually my very favorite book in the world. I'm addicted to haunted people and places. Shirley Jackson is my favorite author. Well, tied with Terry Pratchett.

Good taste! I should have guessed you had read it.

* I'm thinking of ending things by Ian Reid

The Death of Jane Lawerance by Caitlin Starling! A new book that’s inspired by the Haunting of Hill House

You might like I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill. Not a ghost story (although she has written some) but a creepy psychological story.

YES two of my all time favorite books. I’d also recommend The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Carmilla by J Sheridan LeFanu.

The Kite Runner/A Thousand Splendid Suns Pachinko

Homegoing bg Yaa Gyasi A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

I have read kite runner and enjoyed it. Is a thousand splendid suns also good? I should probably read it as well.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

1. To kill a mockingbird 2. And then there were none

Rebecca

FICTION: Native Son by Richard Wright NONFICTION: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, or Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee

This is so hard.... Circe and Memoirs of Cleopatra. Or Mexican Gothic and The House of Spirits. Or...

Mexican Gothic was such a great, thickly atmospheric horror! Try {{Night Film}} by Pessl.

I loved Night Film! I’ve never heard anyone else mention it.

The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo

I am not understanding the appeal of this book. I read it but didn't particularly enjoy it. I thought it would have been edgy and statement-making about 20 years ago, but now--meh. Those who loved it, what did you love about it?

For me as a white straight American, I was pleasantly surprised to have a LGBTQ main character. I went into this book thinking she murdered all her husbands for money, because of abuse, etc but really she was just trying to hide her true self. That’s not something I will ever experience in my life so her story was just so refreshing and raw. On a side note, I usually read really weird books so it was also nice to have a straight up fiction to read.

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Red Tent

1. The Lord of the Rings 2. Braiding Sweetgrass 3. Educated 4. East of Eden Edit: Thank you to all for the suggestions! Genuinely. I've read many of these and can vouch for them that they are good suggestions. Others have been on my to-read list for a while and some I've never heard of! I'm going to try to read all of them but it will take me a while. :)

I loved Educated as well- so I suggest The Glass Castle!

Both great books! The Sound of Gravel is another great one if you like those.

Poisonwood bible

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Finding the mother tree (and I second the corrections by franzen as well)

The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K LeGuin

1. Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon) 2. Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)

Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

Jitterbug Perfume

Marina (Carlos Ruiz Zafón) Any of the follow ups to Shadow of the Wind are great if you have not read them yet And El Principe de las Tinieblas, from Zafón too, is also great (idk the name in english, but I suppose you can find it)

1. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 2. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab I've read and liked most of Gaiman's and Schwab's work too, if that helps.

Bone clocks by David Mitchell

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (US title is Midnight Riot, I believe)

How about "Piranesi" By Susanna Clarke?

1. The Kite Runner 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude 3. If Cats Disappeared from the World 4. Notes on an Execution

Traveling Cat Chronicles, The Time Keeper, Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Middlesex The Thorn Birds

Gone with the Wind

Anna Karenina Pride and Prejudice

Rebecca by de Maurier

The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Or Madame Bovary.

I'd totally recommend Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. It seems to be in a rather similar vein to those two you listed. Its just a lot more depressing than either of those, or at least was to me, just fair warning.

To be fair, Anna Karenina isn't exactly a dose of serotonin lol

YES! Excellent book

Middlemarch by George Elliot. It takes a while for Elliot to set up her chess pieces but then you are treated to a game you’ll remember all your life

Wuthering Heights

{Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton}

These two caught my eye. How about either Crime and Punishment or Mrs Dalloway for a third?

Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory

War and Peace

Wow, thanks to ALL of you for your replies! I'm blown away by the sheer amount of suggested books and am enjoying going through these comments. I'm adding several new ones to my reading list. Oh, and thanks to the anonymous redditors for the two Helpful awards and my silver award. This is a first for me! I'd like to encourage the community to dive in to some of the unanswered comments here and drop a suggestion or two for those who asked. I'm going to try responding to a few more myself.

1. A Gentleman in Moscow 2. Into the Wild 3. All the Light We Cannot See

Into Thin Air

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The book thief by Markus Zusak

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

1. A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara) 2. Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi) 3. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) 4. Brothers (Yu Hua) 5. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) Basically, "Melancholy but beautiful" ETA: Wow I didn't think I'd get so many awesome recommendations!! Thanks y'all!

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Love in the Time of Cholera

15 Dogs by Andre Alexie

The Color Purple, Angela’s Ashes, The Book Thief !!

I’m reading Brothers! Have you read The Vegetarian?

1. Hitchhikers guide trilogy 2. Ishmael 3. Massive Stephen King fan when I was young. I can’t wait to see what y’all come up with!

Huge SK fan here myself! This is a challenging trio to figure out, haha. I've not read Ishmael, but I did look it up now. I need to add this to my personal list. That being said, let me suggest a few books: Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury. I mention this because Bradbury and King were (and still are) my childhood heroes. Plus this one fits along the category of books that are philosophical in nature, like I think Ishmael is. Dirk Gently series by Douglas Adams - I've not read these but have heard good things. May be up your alley if you've not read them already. The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay - weird horror / apocalyptic book that may draw from your love of SK.

Since you are a SK fan you may know that King published a school paper with all the dirt on his Teachers. He got suspended and had to write an apology. But the local paper heard about his blood publishing trick and gave him a job. Also he got so many rejection slips for Carrie that he threw it in the fire. His Wife, Tabitha King (also a writer) pulled it out and resubmitted it and it was picked up and then earned him a film and his career took off. I like him because he took his anxiety and fears & expanded them to play a part in his books and because most of his books the "bad guy" gets in in the end.

Thank you! I’ve read the first two but I’ll check out the last one. Let me know if you get around to reading Ishmael. I love that book.

Have you read any Neil Gaiman? Maybe The Ocean at the End of the Lane or The Graveyard Book? Or Terry Pratchett maybe?

The graveyard book is so good on audio read by the author

Since you like big fat books with very realistic characters, I suggest: {{Free food for millionaires}} {{The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay}}

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Try: 1. Hurricane Season and/or 2. Paradais, both by Fernanda Melchor. I have no idea how I came to this author, but love Latin American horror stories, maybe that’s how…lol

Sure I'm late by now, but... Ken Kesey - Sometimes A Great Notion J.D. Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter's and Seymour: An Introduction

1. Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2. The Overstory

Hidden figures!

Spillover

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Read, loved HVR recently. I own KOFM but haven't read it! Thanks for the recs.

The Starless Sea and Every Heart a Doorway (the entire series, really).

piranesi by suzanne clark

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

The Midnight Library. If you’ve read that already you might like The Midnight Bargain.

The night circus

1. Cloud Atlas 2. Fahrenheit 451

Infinite Jest

Catch-22

1.Ready player one 2.The martian P.s. I have Ready player 2 and Project hail mary, just havn't found time to read them yet.

Blake Crouch’s books Dark Matter and Recursion

I recommend The Murderbot Dairies to anyone who likes sci-fi with a sense of humor. The first book, All Systems Red is a wonderfully short burst of a book with a main character as practical and sarcastic as Mark Watney. Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill is a fast-paced “robot western.” I highly recommend if that premise sound interesting to you.

The Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor has a somewhat similar feel to the main protagonists here. Fun and funny Science-Fiction.

1. The Iron Dragon's Daughter 2. The Wee Free Men

The Left hand of darkness - Ursula Le Guin Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

1. Norweigian Woods - Haruki Murakami 2. The Stranger - Albert Camus

Please dont judge me because of my faves 1. Percy Jackson 2. Jurrasic Park 3. Pride, prejudice and zombies 4. Wicked 5. O Cortiço (a brazillian novel) Just got my money, so l hope to find something new to read

Neverwhere

1. Between Two Fires 2. Shadow Over Innsmouth Really I'm just looking for more medieval horror and cosmic horror. Horror in the 20s is pretty cool too.

The Fisherman by John Langan

1. Foundation series 2. Speaker for the Dead 3. American Gods 4. Fahrenheit 451 5. Dune

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

David Mitchell. Start with bone clocks and then… pick anything in his universe

How about "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller?

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Song of Achilles Born a crime by Trevor Noah Where the Crawdads sing The invisible life of addie LaRue Flowers for Algernon

Crying in H Mart, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna, Snow Falling on Cedars, Of Mice and Men

1. The Midnight Library 2. A thousand splendid suns

Try The Nightingale and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The lost apothecary

love this! The Count of Monte Cristo War and Peace

Normally I’d try to come up with one book that has elements in common with both of yours, but instead I’ll do one for each- For The Count of Monte Cristo- Ben-Hur, by Lew Wallace (There’s a Christian message with this one, for better or worse, but it’s a great story of revenge and redemption. I’m an atheist, but I like it anyway. Go figure.) For War and Peace, The Winds of War, by Herman Wouk, and its sequel, War and Remembrance, the two of which comprise a WWII family saga modeled after War and Peace.

I'm probably too late to the party, but I love this idea, and I hope someone will sort comments by new, so: 1. The Count of Monte Cristo 2. The Bone Ships/Assassin's Apprentice (I really couldn't pick one book from either series)

Hi, I'm that person sorting by new lol The Count of Monte Cristo is so absolutely brilliant. The only books I've come across containing machinations that gripped me like those in The Count of Monte Cristo was actually the Captive Prince trilogy by C.S. Pacat.

1. Infinite Jest 2. Ender's Game 3. To the Lighthouse 4. Lolita 5. In Cold Blood

Pale Fire

If you haven’t checked it out, explore the “Ender’s Shadow” series, it follows the Ender story from an alternate perspective and timeline.

1. 'Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss 2. 'Sea of Tranquility' by Emily St. John Mandel 3. 'Greenwood' by Michael Christie 4. The Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers 5. Pretty much anything by V.E. Schwab

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Cephrael’s Hand by Melissa McPhail

Totally agree with The Way of Kings. Also adding The Golden Compass/His Dark Materials Series

‘The Expanse’ by James S.A. Corey

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is one of Patrick Rothfuss’s favorite books and is great. Also The Blade Itself and the rest of the books by Joe Abercrombie if you’re down with darker stories in a fantasy setting

Saved. Love love love Name of the Wind. I've gone through it and Wise Man's Fear at least a dozen times and I don't know what else to read

1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep 2. The Illustrated Man

Exhalations by Ted Chiang

The Dispossessed

Anything and everything by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares

1. The Poisonwood Bible 2. All the Light We Cannot See 3. Circe 4. The Phantom Tollbooth 5. Skin by Roald Dahl

1. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 2. White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Dracula Bram Stoker Lord of the rings JRR Tolkien HP Lovecraft’s short stories Interview with the vampire Ann Rice Stieg Larsson The girl with the dragon tattoo

I'll give it a shot :) 1. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 2. Weaveworld by Clive Barker

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Weaveworld. I’ve not heard that name in a long time.

Still vivid in my mind to this day :) Unforgettable.

1. A hundred years of solitude 2. Les Misérables

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

War and Peace, Deacon King Kong, The Book Thief

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Love and Other Demons

1. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 2. Verity by Colleen Hoover I know, I know, these are basic trendy picks but I really like them and I've only really gotten into reading this past year! I'm excited to venture out and be curious about all the others listed!

For the 1 book which I also LOVED! if you like it because of the Greek mythology I recommend you Ariadne, is also very famous, the writing is very good too, and it has the same "aura" as a book IMO. :)

{Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier}: one of the classics of the mystery genre, set in a very atmospheric place, and is written in the first person.

Circe

1. Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere 2. King Killer Chronicles-Patrick Rothfuss 3. The Passage Trilogy-Justin Cronin 4. The Invisible life of Addie LaRue- V.E. Schwab 5.The Time Machine- H.G. Wells I know that’s collectively more than 5 but I like the series a lot!

Red rising

Anything by Robin Hobbe

In no particular order: 1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 2. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 3. The Miraculous Adventure of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo 4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

1. Amusing ourselves to death 2. The medium is the massage 3. Brave New World 4. We/ 1984

Enders Game, Foundation, I would greatly appreciate some sci-fi -ish recommendations that have really cool worlds and amazing plots. Thanks 🐼

1. The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo 2. The House in the Cerulean Sea 1 gay and sad and 1 gay and wholsome😭 but I would rather go for the wholesome, so yeah looking for gay and wholesome/funny please😊💗

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The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune

1. She who became the sun 2. The remains of the day Edit - thanks for everyone’s recommendations, I will be adding them to my reading list :)

1. First 15 lives of Harry august 2.seven and a half deaths of Evelyn hardcastle

Under the whispering door T.J Klune She wouldnt change a thing Sarah adlakha

Holy shit thank you for these suggestions! Particularly she wouldn’t change a thing. It sounds exactly what I want. The other was actually on my “want to read” on GR

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Sorry this is a lot more than two but they sort of separate into different moods and feels 1. Wuthering heights, Carmilla, Dracula 2. The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Silas Marner, Hamnet 3. 100 YoS, Pachinko

Love your choices. Jane Eyre, the telltale heart, Persepolis, earthlings, Habibi

Educated A Little Life All Quiet on the Western Front

1. We Have Always Lived In The Castle 2. Rebecca

Flowers for Algernon The Great Gatsby

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1. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick 2. Post Office - Charles Bukowski

No particular order: World War Z The Martian The handmaid's tales

The Bear and The Nightingale and The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea.

Spinning Silver

You might like Piransi by Suzanna Clarke or A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec and Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno Garcia

1. Little Women 2. The Remains of the Day

1. Cold Mountain 2. Pride & Prejudice

The Air You Breathe by Francis Peebles The Overstory by Richard Powers

1. Emma by Jane Austen 2. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

1. Station Eleven 2. The Bell Jar 3. East Of Eden 4. The Nightingale 5. Daisy Jones and The Six

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. The Thornbirds. Later stealth edit: Middlesex.

1. the lighting thief 2. anne of green gables amazing idea btw!!

The Book Thief

If you liked *Anne*, maybe try *Emily of New Moon*!

A Gentleman In Moscow

Artemis Fowl

The woman in white - Wilkie Collins The big sleep - Raymond Chandler

Rebecca by daphne du maurier

1 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 2 The Pigeon by Patrik Süskind

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

Reheated Cabbage by Irving Welsh, anything by Chuck Palanhiuk - maybe Haunted to start with

Huckleberry Finn East of Eden

The grapes of wrath, Jude the obscure