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If you liked A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman · 2000 · His Dark Materials #3

    Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, classics.

    Lyra and Will cross worlds with amber spyglass to free ghosts and kill Authority.

  2. Howl's Moving Castle

    Diana Wynne Jones · 1986 · Howl's Castle #1

    Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, classics.

    Cursed old by the Witch of the Waste, hatmaker Sophie Hatter talks her way into wizard Howl's moving castle and bargains with fire demon…

  3. Cress

    Marissa Meyer · 2014 · The Lunar Chronicles #3

    Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, science fiction.

    Imprisoned hacker Cress joins Cinder Scarlet Wolf Thorne to stop Levana's wedding to Kai.

  4. Scarlet

    Marissa Meyer · 2013 · The Lunar Chronicles #2

    Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, science fiction.

    Scarlet searches for her grandmother with Wolf while escaped Cinder fights Levana in the Lunar Chronicles sequel.

  5. The Time Machine

    H.G. Wells · 1895

    Because shares tags: science fiction, classics, time travel.

    Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.

  6. Cinder

    Marissa Meyer · 2012 · The Lunar Chronicles #1

    Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, science fiction.

    Cyborg mechanic Cinder discovers she is Lunar royalty while plague and Queen Levana threaten New Beijing.

  7. The Golden Compass

    Philip Pullman · 1995 · His Dark Materials #1

    Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, classics.

    Golden Compass retold: Lyra and Pan north to save Roger, bears, Dust, bridge to new world.

  8. The Giver

    Lois Lowry · 1993 · The Giver #1

    Because shares tags: young adult, science fiction, classics.

    Lois Lowry's The Giver retold: Jonas's Assignment, the memories, release, and the sled ride out.

  9. The Raven Boys

    Maggie Stiefvater · 2012 · The Raven Cycle #1

    Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult.

    Blue Sargent joins four Aglionby boys hunting a Welsh king on a Virginia ley line.

  10. The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

    Because shares tags: classics, fantasy.

    Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.

  11. The Horse and His Boy

    C. S. Lewis · 1954 · Chronicles of Narnia #5

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics.

    Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.

  12. The Green Mile

    Stephen King · 1996

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics.

    Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.

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