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(Reccomendations) The Night Circus -- Erin Morgenstern

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cassiatwenty · 08/04/2024 09:10

Hiya

Has anyone read The Night Circus? It was such a brilliant and magical experience.

Can anyone recommend something like it please?

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cassiatwenty · 10/04/2024 06:38

I bloody love Laura Purcell @TeabySea I read The Whipsering Muse (her latest), Bone China and The Shape of Darkness.

Have you read The Shape of Darkness? It's my fav! I'm so obsessed by her writing and I just can't put her books down.

Fantastic recommendation @TeabySea cheers! 😊💫

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wombleberry · 10/04/2024 10:10

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is amazing. Also liked The Ten Thousand Doors of January.

Edit: I see a PP recommended both these too!

Would also add The First Fifiteen Lives of Harry August. A little different, but so good.

TeabySea · 10/04/2024 10:33

cassiatwenty · 10/04/2024 06:38

I bloody love Laura Purcell @TeabySea I read The Whipsering Muse (her latest), Bone China and The Shape of Darkness.

Have you read The Shape of Darkness? It's my fav! I'm so obsessed by her writing and I just can't put her books down.

Fantastic recommendation @TeabySea cheers! 😊💫

Yes, I've read them all. Amazing stuff!

LenaLamont · 10/04/2024 10:46

I think if you like The Night Circus and Piranesi (as recommended by many on the thread, The Night Rainbow by Claire King would be a good fit.

Chocolat by Joanne Harris always felt to me like a bit of a rip off of Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, but for those who holiday in France. It's good, but sort of pleased with itself in a way that grates with me. (That's true of most of Harris's books, I find.)

South and Central American have a great tradition of Magical Realism, so if you find you enjoy that - it can be an acquired taste - Isabel Allende can be a good entry point.

From Stardust, I'd suggest Gaiman's Neverwhere. It's delightful.

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cassiatwenty · 10/04/2024 20:27

@LenaLamont Oh thank you for writing your thoughts

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TonTonMacoute · 11/04/2024 11:25

Have you tried the Rotherweird trilogy, by Andrew Caldecott

Also Rupert Thomson (possibly my favourite writer)The Insult and Dreams of Leaving (that's two different books btw)

JaninaDuszejko · 11/04/2024 20:13

Agree with @LenaLamont , The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende is probably your best starting point for South American magic realism. I love 100 Years of Solitude but I think it's a more challenging read.

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cassiatwenty · 12/04/2024 06:27

@TonTonMacoute No, all new to me, thank you for writing some recs down and I hope you find a title or two on this thread you like 😁

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cassiatwenty · 12/04/2024 06:30

@JaninaDuszejko Thank you for thinking of Isabel Allende, I have never read South American/magical realism writers so if you think starting with her will be less daunting, I will give it a go thankyou 😁

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cassiatwenty · 12/04/2024 18:23

@wombleberry I am just checking out The First Fifteen Lives of Henry August, thankyou, such an unusual book, I never woulf have found it myself

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VioletMcRobins · 18/04/2024 00:13

I Loved The Night Circus and agree with the poster who said it was like reading a dream. Never quite experienced the same since but some I have really enjoyed The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale, Feathertide by Beth Cartwright, The Winter Garden by Alexandra Bell, The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune and Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield

DiggoryVenn · 18/04/2024 20:48

@TonTonMacoute Rupert Thomson is one of my favourites too - never met anyone who has ever heard of him. Dreams of Leaving blew me away.

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cassiatwenty · 19/04/2024 11:34

@DiggoryVenn @VioletMcRobins Many thanks for your kind recommendations Smile People have been very helpful so I'm glad we got a lot of recommendations here.

Tbf I wouldn't have never checked out many of these books if posters didn't recommend them. Thank you all!

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