Books like “Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow”

What to read after “Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow” by Jessica Townsend: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Caraval
Stephanie Garber · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
- Tournament
Scarlett has dreamed of Caraval, a magical game held once a year, as a way to escape her island home. When her sister is taken by the game's master, Scarlett must enter the show to find her, where nothing is real and the price of losing is high.
2
Red Sister
Mark Lawrence · 2017
Similar setting: “Magic Academy”
Sold and condemned, the girl Nona Grey is saved from the gallows by the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where young women are trained as warriors and killers. Between lessons in blade and poison she makes friends and enemies and a promise, while the past that marked her comes looking.
3
The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett · 1983
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
Rincewind, a wizard who failed out of magic school, is saddled with guiding Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist, on a chaotic tour. Their journey drags a naive optimist, a walking luggage chest and a very unwilling hero through one disaster after another.
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The Spirit Thief
Rachel Aaron · 2010
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
Eli Monpress is a wizard and a thief who would rather have a larger bounty than a heavier purse. To raise it he kidnaps a king, which brings the Spirit Court's envoy Miranda Lyonette after him. Eli's easy charm hides a plan that puts more than his own bounty at stake.
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The Shadow of What Was Lost
James Islington · 2014
Similar setting: “Magic Academy”
- Magic Academy
- Coming of Age
Davian is an Augur, born with powers forbidden since the old war. When the laws of the Venerate turn against him, he flees with his friends in search of the man who might explain why the Augurs fell. What he finds tests everything he was taught to believe.
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An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2015
Same genre: “Fantasy fiction”
- Tournament
- Coming of Age
Under the Martial Empire, Laia's brother is arrested as a traitor, so she goes undercover as a slave in a brutal military academy to spy for the rebels. There she meets Elias, a reluctant soldier whose future is bound to the regime she works against.
7
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery · 1908
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert mean to adopt a boy to help on their farm, but the orphan who arrives is Anne Shirley, a talkative red-haired girl with a vivid imagination. Over years of scrapes and small triumphs she wins over the village of Avonlea and finds a place she can finally call home.
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The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss · 2007
Similar setting: “Magic Academy”
- Magic Academy
- Coming of Age
Kvothe, once a renowned magician and musician, tells a scribe the truth behind his own reputation. His story moves from a travelling troupe to a brutal city and the magic school where he learned far too much.
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The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle · 1968
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
A unicorn learns she may be the last of her kind and leaves her forest to search for the others. With a bumbling magician and a sharp-tongued woman she travels to a king's castle, where love and loss wait at the end of the road.
10
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson · 2023
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
Tress lives on an island where the seas are made of deadly spores. When the man she loves is taken by the Sorceress, she leaves her ordinary life, gathers an unlikely crew and sails toward the midnight sea to bring him home.
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The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani · 2013
Similar setting: “Magic Academy”
- Magic Academy
- Coming of Age
Every year two children are taken to the School for Good and Evil, one to train as a hero and one as a villain. Best friends Sophie and Agatha are sure they know which is which, but the school has its own plans for them.
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A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik · 2020
Similar setting: “Magic Academy”
- Magic Academy
- Found Family
The Scholomance is a magic school with no teachers, where students learn spells while monsters pick them off between lessons. Galadriel 'El' Higgins, feared for the dark power a prophecy says she will wield, has to survive to graduation and the hungry things waiting in the dark.