AmongReaders.com
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Brave Story

Miyuki Miyabe · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Fairy Tale

Stephen King · 607 pages

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeComing of AgeSprawling Epic
❤️

Magic Knight Rayearth I, Vol. 3

CLAMP · 205 pages

Three teenage girls are summoned to be "magic knights" by Princess Emerōdo and asked to save a mysterious place, Sefīro. Although their adventurous journey begins with confusion, these young heroines soon accept their duty as fighters.

IsekaiPortal FantasyQuest NarrativeAdventure
❤️

The Talisman

Stephen King, Peter Straub · 769 pages

The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The Talisman was nominated for both the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985. King and Straub followed up with a sequel, Black House (2001). Followed by: Black House

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeSprawling EpicComing of Age
❤️

Magician: Apprentice

Raymond E. Feist · 485 pages

An orphaned kitchen boy named Pug becomes selected as the Kingdom of Midkemia's apprentice to the local sorcerer. A rift opens between this world and another and a great war rages between the two. Pug is captured and a secret magic within him discovered as that war between the two planets continues. There is great magic, fantasy and personal connections between memorable characters.

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeSprawling EpicComing of Age
❤️

Eragon & Eldest

Christopher Paolini · 1,197 pages

The first two titles of the Inheritance Cycle in one fantastic book!ERAGONWhen Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is a lucky discovery - perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone becomes a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered and he is thrus

Quest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventureSprawling Epic
🙂

InuYasha: Turning Back Time

Rumiko Takahashi · 186 pages

Kagome, a young school girl from modern-day Japan, gets pulled into a time portal and transported back to feudal Japan where she discovers that her destiny is linked to that of Inu-Yasha, a doglike half-demon, and together, they search for the Shikon Jewel which can fulfull the dreams of any man or monster.

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeJapanAdventure
🙂

The Rise of the Wyrm Lord

Wayne Thomas Batson · 344 pages

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
🙂

Abarat

Clive Barker · 489 pages

Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wand

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeAdventureComing of Age
🙂

Guardians of the Flame: The Warriors

Joel Rosenberg · 512 pages

IsekaiPortal FantasyQuest NarrativeAdventure
🙂

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 156 pages

Over a century after its initial publication, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is still captivating the hearts of countless readers. Come adventure with Dorothy and her three friends: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, as they follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City for an audience with the Great Oz, the mightiest Wizard in the land, and the only one that can return Dorothy

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeAdventureComing of Age
🙂

Gregor the Overlander

Suzanne Collins · 311 pages

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventure
🙂

The Great Hunt

Robert Jordan · 672 pages

Now in development for TV! Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third A

Quest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventurePortal Fantasy
🙂

The Magician King

Lev Grossman · 432 pages

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventure
🙂

The Merchant of Death

D.J. MacHale · 379 pages

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeAdventureTeen Protagonist
🙂

The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman · 352 pages

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
🙂

The Knight

Gene Wolfe · 435 pages

A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Abel and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeComing of AgeFantasy
🙂

The Fall

Ryan Cahill · 95 pages

Coming of AgeSprawling EpicQuest NarrativeAdventure
🙂

Wizard and Glass

Stephen King · 699 pages

The dark tower beckons Roland, the gunslinger... And in a terrifying journey Roland determines to reach his destiny with the companions he has gathered along the road; wheelchair-bound Susannah Holmes, narcotic prisoner Eddie Dean, a boy named Jake and his pet creature Oy, are all willing participants in the harrowing quest. Through the scarred, devastated urban wasteland to the Mid-World where

Quest NarrativeSprawling EpicComing of AgeAdventure
🙂

The Thin Executioner

Darren Shan

In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.

Quest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventureFantasy
🙂

The Book of Lost Things

John Connolly · 352 pages

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strang

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeComing of AgeFantasy
🙂

The Sorcerer in the North

John Flanagan

Known as *The Sorcerer of the North* in the U.S.. Time has passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, led the Araluens to victory against invaders, and Will is now a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy -- boring, even -- until the Skandians show up and Will has to deal with the threat. Shortly thereafter, Will goes on a secret mission. Join

Quest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventureFantasy
🙂

A World Without Heroes

Brandon Mull · 459 pages

Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable--until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason suddenly transporting from the hippo tank to a place unlike anything he's ever seen. In the past, the people of Lyrian welcomed visitors from the Beyond, but attitudes have changed since the wizard emperor Maldor rose to power. The brave resistors who opposed the emperor have been

Portal FantasyQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
🙂

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 198 pages

The first novel of Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman) Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible sha

Quest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventureFantasy
📖 New 2026 Kindles just released. See them on Amazon ↗