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Books like Lewis Barnavelt: 9 series to read next

Lewis Barnavelt is fantasy, set in north america and contemporary, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Lewis Barnavelt is 12 books, 1973–2008.

“Lewis Barnavelt is a lonely orphan who moves in with his uncle Jonathan, an amateur wizard, in a rambling old house that turns out to hide a doomsday clock built into its walls by a previous, malevolent owner.”
from the catalogue description

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Johnny Dixon and the Professor
Coraline
Tales of Magic
The Dark Is Rising
The Books of Elsewhere
The Indian in the Cupboard
Bod Owens
Anthony Monday
The Sisters Grimm

Johnny Dixon and the ProfessorSeries

seriesJohn Bellairs & Brad Strickland13 books1983

Gothic and horror, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Curse of the Blue Figurine →

CoralineSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell2 books2002

Portal fantasy, set in parallel universe.

“The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Coraline →

Tales of MagicSeries

seriesEdward Eager7 books1954

Whimsical in tone.

“Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Half Magic →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

The Books of ElsewhereSeries

seriesJacqueline West5 books2010

Portal fantasy.

“When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.”
from the catalogue description of The Shadows
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Start with The Shadows →

The Indian in the CupboardSeries

seriesLynne Reid Banks5 books1980

Portal fantasy.

“Lynne Reid Banks' Indian in the Cupboard series begins with the 1980 children's novel in which a boy discovers that an old cupboard can bring his plastic toy figures to life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Indian in the Cupboard →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Bittersweet in tone, about found family.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

Anthony MondaySeries

seriesJohn Bellairs4 books1978

Gothic and horror, eerie in tone, set in north america.

“Anthony and his friends generally overcome evil forces bent on ending the world.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn →

The Sisters GrimmSeries

seriesMichael Buckley9 books2005

Fairy tale retelling.

“Summary from copyright page: Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother whom they have always believed to be dead.”
from the catalogue description of The Fairy-Tale Detectives
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Start with The Fairy-Tale Detectives →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Lewis Barnavelt?: Johnny Dixon and the Professor — the closest match to Lewis Barnavelt on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Lewis Barnavelt?: The House with a Clock in Its Walls. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Lewis Barnavelt.
How big is Lewis Barnavelt?: Lewis Barnavelt is 12 books, 1973–2008.

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