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1. If you loved The Giver, you should read Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go.

Both novels tell of sheltered future societies gone wrong: the Sameness paradise of The Giver and the isolated boarding school of
Never Let Me Go, Hailsham. But each of these supposed utopias harbor secrets, and the significance of Hailshams own sameness
is the darkest of all. What happens when the residents grow up and figure it out?
2. If you loved Redwall, you should read George R. R. Martins A Song of Ice and Fire
series.

Rich, generation-spanning histories. Magic and mythology. Epic warfare. Feuding families. Badass ladies. So many feasts. Both series
are chock-full of all of it. The world of A Song of Ice and Fire just happens to be inhabited by humans, not mice.
3. If you loved Sideways Stories From Wayside School, you should read Joseph
Hellers Catch-22.

The brilliant and hilarious Catch-22, which follows Captain John Yossarian as he fights in the U.S. Air Force, is all about the absurdities
of bureaucracy. And while the themes of the war novel are understandably darker, the shenanigans are similarly inane from a
bomber pilot holding rubber balls in his hands as a way to distract from the crabapples in his cheeks, to the Wayside School student
who cant count in the correct order but always lands at the right number.
4. If you loved the Harry Potter series, you should read Lev Grossmans The
Magicians.

Brooklyn teenager Quentin Coldwater of The Magicians likely grew up reading about Harry Potter. Its the reason he spends his days
wishing magic were real, and the reason hes so excited when his fantasy is seemingly fulfilled by acceptance into the Brakebills
Academy for magicians. But the magic world of The Magicians is a bit more tempered by reality the studies are tedious, the
practice is mired in bureaucracy and even when Quentin discovers how far-reaching this magic is, hes still not immune to some
standard post-grad disillusionment.
5. If you loved Anne of Green Gables, you should read Edna OBriens The Country
Girls Trilogy.

Kate and Baba of The Country Girls are like bosom friends Anne Shirley and Diana Barry, but if Anne and Diana eventually made their
way out of the country and into the city. In this controversial trilogy, the girls romantic, adventurous, and rule-breaking leave their
idyllic hometown for Dublin, where they pursue their passions side by side.
6. If you loved Ramona Quimby, Age 8, you should read Sloane Crosleys I Was Told
Thered Be Cake.

We all loved Ramona Quimby because she was relatable, a little strange, and always hilarious. Same goes for Sloane Crosley, whose
sharp, endearing, and laugh-out-loud personal essays tell stories of angry bosses, misadventures at the Museum of Natural History,
baking mishaps, and more.
7. If you loved Holes, you should read Junot Diazs The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar
Wao.

Both Holes and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao read as modern mythology, featuring two curse-afflicted protagonists who
cant catch a break. Theyre tales of misfits and survival, and the cruelty that Oscar faces as an overweight Dominican-American teen
obsessed with sci-fi is just as harsh and alienating as that of Stanley Yelnats prison camp.
8. If you loved Bridge to Terabithia, you should read Meg Wolitzers The Interestings.

At its core, Bridge to Terabithia is about friendship, especially the kind that is strengthened by shared creativity and imagination. In
The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer explores that bond focusing on six teens who meet at a summer camp for the arts and looks at
what happens when it extends into adulthood.
9. If you loved Enders Game, you should read William Gibsons Neuromancer.

If you were drawn into the apocalyptic cyberpunk future depicted in Enders Game, youll eat Neuromancer up. Ender is at times a
reluctant hero, and Gibsons has-been hacker Case is similarly unlikely but when a dangerous artificial intelligence threatens Earth,
its Case (working with a dead man and a street fighter) who has the power to save the world.
10. If you loved The Devils Arithmetic, you should read Octavia E. Butlers Kindred.

Both novels use time travel to illuminate horrific moments of history The Devils Arithmetic sending its protagonist to the Holocaust
and Kindred sending Dana to the slave quarters of antebellum South. The 26-year-old Dana travels back and forth, though, jumping
between her happy life in California and life-threatening experiences as a slave until she figures out what shes being sent back to do.
11. If you loved Walk Two Moons, you should read Gabriel Garcia Marquezs One
Hundred Years of Solitude.

Walk Two Moons is a story within a story, told by a girl longing for her missing mother. The tale she weaves is fantastical, tinged with
spirituality, mysticism, grief, a bit of romance, and rich descriptions of the land. Marquezs epic masterpiece widens the scope of each
of those themes. In a long and entrancing history of the mythical town of Macondo, he writes about love, revolution, prosperity, loss,
and the tragic rise and fall of a family.
12. If you loved The Phantom Tollbooth, you should read Neil Gaimans Stardust.

Its the playfulness of The Phantom Tollbooth that wins over its readers (and, really, its one of the childrens books that warrants
revisiting), and Neil Gaimans Stardust captures that same sense expertly. When Tristan Thorn embarks on a quest to find a fallen
star, he encounters witches, elf-lords, a captain of a flying ship, and all manners of eccentrics that will stay with the reader long after
the book is finished.
13. If you loved The Hobbit, you should read Michael Chabons Gentlemen of the
Road.

So it doesnt have any hobbits or wizards, but what Gentlemen of the Road lacks in fantasy it more than makes up for in action,
adventure, and enthralling characters. Zelikman and Amram, physican and ex-soldier respectively, make their way through the
Caucasus Mountains in the year 950, fighting and stealing and somehow getting in the middle of a full-scale revolution.
14. If you loved Harriet the Spy, you should read Muriel Barberys The Elegance of the
Hedgehog.

Harriet M. Welsch is easily one of the most lovable heroines of YA fiction, for her passion, independence, and fearlessness. Twelve-
year-old Paloma of The Elegance of the Hedgehog is cut of the same cloth a talented, precocious, and curious wunderkind who
befriends similar eccentrics in her Parisian apartment building, and whos mysteriously decided her life will end by her 13th birthday.
15. If you loved A Wrinkle In Time, you should read Karen Russells Swamplandia!

Twelve-year-old Ava of Swamplandia! doesnt travel through space and time, but she does travel through the Floridian swamps all on
her own and, like Meg Murry of A Wrinkle in Time, her bravery is for the sake of her family. As Ava sets off to save their alligator-
wrestling dynasty, she travels deep into a beautifully surreal and somewhat mystical landscape, encountering dangerous strangers
and creatures alike.
16. If you loved Are You There God? Its Me, Margaret, you should read Melissa
Banks The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing.

The troubles that Margaret Simon experiences in the Judy Blume classic romantic anxiety, body confusion, the awkwardness of
fitting in with new friends are especially potent in the preteen years but by no means limited to them. Melissa Bank proves this as
she follows protagonist Jane Rosenal from age 14 to her mid-twenties in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking stories of navigating
love, work, and life.
17. If you loved James and the Giant Peach, you should read Haruki Murakamis
Kafka on the Shore.

Roald Dahl was the master of bringing the surreal to life, peopling his world with talking bugs, cartoonishly evil adults, and a peach
large enough to live in. Murakami is similar in his ability to fill his readers with metaphysical wonder, and he is most successful in
Kafka on the Shore. Teenager Kafka Tamura sets off on a search for his mother and sister, with the elderly Nakata as his unlikely
partner. Together the two encounter a slightly altered reality, full of riddles, talking cats, a rainstorm of fish, and a mysterious murder.
18. If you loved A Series of Unfortunate Events, you should read Adam Johnsons The
Orphan Masters Son.

In The Orphan Masters Son, Adam Johnson tells a tale that could very well be described as a series of unfortunate events, and in a
similar vein as Lemony Snickets series. It follows the young and motherless Pak Jun Do as he makes his way in North Korea, coming
up against harsh demands and arbitrary violence in a thrilling and at times harrowing tale of lost innocence.
19. If you loved Hatchet, you should read Bonnie Jo Campbells Once Upon A River.

Brian has his hatchet and Margo has her rifle, and both are fending for themselves in these stories of survival. Their isolations are
different though; where Brian is alone in the wilderness after surviving a plane crash, 16-year-old Margo is traveling along the Stark
River in rural and sparsely populated Michigan in search of her long-lost mother. The dangers she encounters are real and and often
disturbing, but her perseverance is legendary.
20. If you loved When Kambia Elaine Flew In From Neptune, you should read Toni
Morrisons Sula.

Both When Kambia Elaine Flew in From Neptune and Sula have at their cores stories of children who are forced to grow up too fast.
They tell of violence in the household, the effects of poverty, experiences of racism, and above all the way that two friends can carry
each other along. Toni Morrisons classic Sula begins in childhood, and follows young Sula and Nel as they survive life in the Bottom
(which shares a name with Kambia Elaines hometown, though the former is in Ohio and the latter is in Texas) and test their friendship
as they go separate ways in adulthood.
21. If you loved The Westing Game, you should read Robin Sloans Mr. Penumbras
24-Hour Bookstore.

What was great about The Westing Game wasnt necessarily the mystery, but the characters involved in it. It was suspenseful, for
sure, but it was fun and at times even funny. Robin Sloan captures that feeling in Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore, a fast-paced and
heady mystery that follows a former web designer who suspects theres something more to the bookstore hes taking shifts at. As he
delves into analysis with his eclectic friends, he uncovers a world of secret societies, mysterious literati, and a web of technological
riddles.
22. If you loved the Goosebumps series, you should read John Ajvide Lindqvists
Harbor.

John Ajvide Lindqvist is the master of old-school horror, and his eery ghost story Harbor will have you sleeping with the lights on for
weeks. Set in the icy desolation of a fictional Scandinavian island, Lindqvist creates a world of mysterious disappearances, dark
magic, stalking phantoms, and an angry and insatiable sea.
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