Recommended reading

1. Books Like
The Night Circus

2. The Shadow
of the Wind
by Carlos
Ruiz Zafon
The protagonist Daniel
becomes obsessed with a
mysterious author
named Julián Carax, but
soon discovers that
someone is destroying all
of Carax's works. His
ensuing adventure to
save Carax's work opens
a door into one of
Barcelona’s darkest
secrets--an epic story of
murder, madness, and
doomed love.

3. Stardust by
Neil
Gaiman
Tristran Thorn has lost
his heart to the beautiful
Victoria Forester and for
the coveted prize of her
hand, Tristran vows to
retrieve a fallen star and
deliver it to his beloved.
It is an oath that sends
him over the ancient wall
and into a world that is
dangerous and strange
beyond imagining.

4. Geek Love
by
Katherine
Dunn
The unforgettable story
of the Binewskis, a
circus-geek family whose
matriarch and patriarch
have bred their own
exhibit of human oddities
(with the help of
amphetamine, arsenic,
and radioisotopes). The
Binewskis take their act
across the U.S.,
challenging traditional
views on what is obscene,
profane, and beautiful.

5. Jonathan
Strange and
Mr. Norrell
by Susanna
Clarke
During the Napoleonic Wars
in 1806 most people believe
magic to have long since
disappeared- until the
reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals
his powers and becomes an
overnight celebrity. Another
magician then emerges: the
young and daring Jonathan
Strange. He becomes
Norrell's pupil, and the two
join forces in the war against
France.

6. Ninth
House by
Leigh
Bardugo
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the
most unlikely member of
Yale’s freshman class. Alex
arrives in New Haven tasked
by her mysterious
benefactors with monitoring
the activities of Yale’s secret
societies. Their occult
activities are revealed to be
more sinister and more
extraordinary than any
paranoid imagination might
conceive.

7. The Time
Traveler’s
Wife by
Audrey
Niffeneger
The story of Clare, a
beautiful art student, and
Henry, an adventuresome
librarian, who have
known each other since
Clare was six and Henry
was thirty-six. Time
travel, romance, and
drama mix together to
create an unforgettable
story of love forged
through impossible
circumstances.

8. The
Magicians
by Lev
Grossman
After being admitted into a
secret society of magic in
upstate New York, Quentin
Coldwater realizes Fillory,
the city at the center of his
childhood favorite book, is
real. But Fillory turns out to
be much darker and more
dangerous than he could
have imagined for his
childhood dream becomes a
nightmare with a shocking
truth at its heart.

9. The City of
Brass by
S.A.
Chakraborty
A brilliant historical fantasy
in which a young con artist
in eighteenth century Cairo
discovers she's the last
descendant of a powerful
family of djinn healers. With
the help of an immortal
warrior and a rebellious
prince, she must claim her
magical birthright in order
to prevent a war that
threatens to destroy the
entire djinn kingdom.

10. A Discovery
of Witches
by Deborah
Harkness
Diana Bishop opens a
manuscript and unwittingly
exposes herself to a world
she's kept at bay for years;
one of powerful witches,
creative, destructive
daemons and vampires. She
must confront her lineage as
a powerful witch and join
forces with a vampire
geneticist to discover the
secrets the manuscript
holds.

11. Daughter of
Smoke and
Bone by
Laini Taylor
In the tangled lanes of
Prague, young art student
Karou fills her sketchbooks
with monsters that may or
may not be real; disappears
on mysterious "errands";
and speaks many languages-
-not all of them human; and
has bright blue hair that
actually grows out of her
head. Who is she? She's
about to find out.