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Gemma DoyleSeries
series4 books2003
About coming of age.
Start with A Great and Terrible Beauty →
BartimaeusSeries
series4 books2003
Alternate history, adventurous in tone, about political intrigue.
Start with The Amulet of Samarkand →
The Raven KingSeries
series13 books1996
About fae.
“Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reintroduces magic to an alternate nineteenth-century England, centering on the prickly rivalry between the two title magicians as they revive a lost English tradition.”
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Bastable ChildrenSeries
series24 books1898
completed
Lighthearted in tone, about coming of age.
“E. Nesbit's Bastable novels follow their well-meaning, thoroughly unsuccessful schemes across three books published between 1899 and 1904, mixing believable sibling squabbles with the children's own overactive imaginations.”
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The Lie TreeNovel
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About coming of age and family secrets.
The PrestigeNovel
Christopher Prieststandalone novel1995
Literary & general and historical fiction, about identity, set in our world.
“There's a lot of focus on a trick, where he seems to move across any width of stage in an instant, and on a feud with another magician, Angier.”
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