Books like The Drawing of the Three

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  1. The Gunslinger

    Stephen King · 1982 · The Dark Tower #1

    Because same series (The Dark Tower #1); also by Stephen King; shares tags: fantasy, western, horror.

    Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.

  2. The Green Mile

    Stephen King · 1996

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, fantasy, classics.

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

  3. Fairy Tale

    Stephen King · 2022

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: fantasy, horror.

    A grieving teen cares for a recluse and his old dog, then finds a shed well leading to Empis, a fading world at war.

  4. 'Salem's Lot

    Stephen King · 1975

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, classics.

    A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.

  5. Pet Sematary

    Stephen King · 1983

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, classics.

    Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.

  6. The Shining

    Stephen King · 1977 · The Shining #1

    Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, classics.

    The Shining retold: Jack winters at Overlook with Wendy and Danny, REDRUM, hedge maze chase.

  7. Tuck Everlasting

    Natalie Babbitt · 1975

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics.

    Winnie Foster meets the immortal Tuck family in the woods and must decide whether to drink from their spring.

  8. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

    Because shares tags: classics, horror.

    A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.

  9. The Silver Chair

    C. S. Lewis · 1953 · Chronicles of Narnia #4

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics.

    Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.

  10. The Silmarillion

    J. R. R. Tolkien · 1977

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics.

    Tolkien's posthumous First Age history, edited by Christopher Tolkien: the Music of the Ainur, Feanor's Silmarils, Beren and Luthien,…

  11. The Phantom Tollbooth

    Norton Juster · 1961

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics.

    A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.

  12. The Last Battle

    C.S. Lewis · 1956 · Chronicles of Narnia #7

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics.

    Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.

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