Series
Bod Owens
Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell · 1 novel · 1 graphic novel · 1 novelette · 2007–2014
The Graveyard Book follows Nobody "Bod" Owens, a toddler who escapes the murder of his family and is raised among the ghosts of an old English graveyard, absorbing their otherworldly customs while a threat from his past waits beyond the gates. 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. Bod's story spans the original novel and that graphic-novel retelling rather than continuing in a prose sequel.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Bod Owens at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s2
- 2010s1
Shape
1 novel · 1 graphic novel · 1 novelette
2 authors
reads like:fantasycoming of ageour worldcontemporarybittersweetmiddle grade
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Graveyard Bookdarkest · calmest
- The Witch's Headstonebrightest · most intense