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Books Like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke · about this book

Loved Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke? If its fantasy, alternate history and fae/faeries hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Name of the Wind, The Map of Time and The Dragonbone Chair. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Fantasy · Alternate History · Fae/Faeries · Historical Fiction · Sprawling Epic

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   The Name of the Wind

   Patrick Rothfuss

   Mentor Relationship · Slow-Paced · Bookish · Sprawling Epic · Fae/Faeries

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   The Map of Time

   Félix J. Palma

   Omniscient Narrator · Bookish · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced · Sprawling Epic

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   The Dragonbone Chair

   Tad Williams

   Mentor Relationship · Fae/Faeries · Sprawling Epic · Slow-Paced · Magic System

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4. 

   Bleak House

   Charles Dickens

   Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose · Dry Humor

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5. 

   The Fellowship of the Ring

   J.R.R. Tolkien

   Omniscient Narrator · Mentor Relationship · Slow-Paced · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose

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6. 

   Wolf Hall

   Hilary Mantel

   Mentor Relationship · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose · Dry Humor · Sprawling Epic

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7. 

   Middlemarch

   George Eliot

   Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced · Dry Humor

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8. 

   A Hat Full of Sky

   Terry Pratchett

   Mentor Relationship · Dry Humor · Omniscient Narrator · Fae/Faeries · Magic System

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9. 

   Moby-Dick or, The Whale

   Herman Melville

   Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose · Atmospheric

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10. 

    Katabasis

    R. F. Kuang

    Mentor Relationship · Bookish · Dense Prose · Magic System · Slow-Paced

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11. 

    Paradise Lost

    John Milton

    Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose · Mentor Relationship

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12. 

    The Night Circus

    Erin Morgenstern

    Slow-Paced · Mentor Relationship · Magic System · Fantasy · Atmospheric

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13. 

    Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    R F Kuang

    Alternate History · Bookish · Dense Prose · Magic System · Fantasy

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14. 

    Plain Bad Heroines

    Emily M. Danforth

    Omniscient Narrator · Bookish · Slow-Paced · Atmospheric · Sprawling Epic

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15. 

    Speaks the Nightbird

    Robert McCammon

    Mentor Relationship · Omniscient Narrator · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced · Sprawling Epic

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16. 

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced · Atmospheric

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17. 

    Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

    Heather Fawcett

    Fae/Faeries · Bookish · Dry Humor · Atmospheric · Fantasy

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18. 

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

    William L. Hedges

    Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose · Dry Humor · Atmospheric

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19. 

    Titus Groan

    Mervyn Peake

    Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose · Sprawling Epic · Fantasy

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20. 

    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Victor Hugo

    Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced · Atmospheric

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