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Neil Gaimanstandalone novel2013

Dark fantasy, about fae and friendship.

“A seven year old farm boy becomes friends with an eleven year old neighbor girl, who he discovers is ancient and powerful and intervenes when a nonhuman entity attempts to make a home in earthly reality.”
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KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

Miss Peregrine's Peculiar ChildrenSeries

series19 books2011

Fantasy.

“The first trilogy follows Jacob's introduction to peculiardom and its dangers; a second trilogy shifts the action to the United States.”
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Start with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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

Bod OwensSeries

series3 books2007

Dark fantasy, about found family, set in british isles.

“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.”
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Start with The Witch's Headstone →

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