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series2 books2020

About second chance and grief and loss.

“In particular, they frequently wonder how different things might have been had they made other choices at pivotal moments in their lives.”
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Start with The Midnight Library →

FlukeNovel

James Herbertstandalone novel1977

Sad in tone, about reincarnation and grief and loss.

“A dog named Fluke is barely more than a puppy when fragments of a life that isn't his own surface in his mind -- memories of a wife, a daughter, a job, an entire human existence he can't reconcile with the body he's now living in.”
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward TulaneNovel

Kate DiCamillostandalone novel2006

Fairy tale retelling, bittersweet in tone, about coming of age and grief and loss.

“Following the life of a china rabbit, the book won the 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the Fiction category.”
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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

The RadleysNovel

Matt Haigstandalone novel2010

Paranormal, about vampires and family secrets.

Every DaySeries

series3 books2012

About body swap and coming of age.

“David Levithan's Every Day follows A, a consciousness with no fixed body who wakes each morning inside a different person's life, and who falls for a girl named Rhiannon despite the impossibility of ever staying in one body to be with her.”
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Start with Every Day →

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