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Books like Pinocchio: 9 series to read next

Pinocchio is fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Pinocchio is 6 books across 1 series, 1883–2020.

“A poor carpenter is handed a piece of firewood that screams when he cuts into it, and passes it along to a friend, who carves it into a boy.”
from the catalogue description

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Earthsea
Narnia
Gormenghast
Peter Pan
Mythago Wood
Folktales
Karou
The Iremonger Trilogy
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue description

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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

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GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic, set in secondary world.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
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Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue description

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Mythago WoodSeries

seriesRobert Holdstock7 books1984

Mythic fantasy, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras.”
from the catalogue description

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FolktalesSeries

seriesRobin McKinley3 books1978

Set in secondary world.

“Almost 20 years later, McKinley returned to the same material with her 1997 novel Rose Daughter.”
from the catalogue description of Beauty

Start with Beauty →

KarouSeries

seriesLaini Taylor4 books2011

Emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue description of Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

The Iremonger TrilogySeries

seriesEdward Carey3 books2013

Set in british isles and big city.

“Clod Iremonger, who lives with his family at Heap House surrounded by the garbage and discards of London, has the gift--or curse--of hearing the whispers of objects in the rubbish heaps surrounding his house.”
from the catalogue description of Heap House

Start with Heap House →

Miss Peregrine's Peculiar ChildrenSeries

seriesRansom Riggs19 books2011

Fantasy.

“The first trilogy follows Jacob's introduction to peculiardom and its dangers; a second trilogy shifts the action to the United States.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children →

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 Pinocchio?: Earthsea — the closest match to Pinocchio on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Pinocchio?: Pinocchio is 6 books across 1 series, 1883–2020.

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