Fantasy · Similar reads
Books like A Wrinkle in Time
The best books like A Wrinkle in Time are The Alchemist, Siddhartha, and The Chosen. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle is about good versus evil, love as resistance, conformity and individuality. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Siddhartha
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Hermann Hesse · Religion & Spirituality
Siddhartha is Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel of spiritual seeking, written at a time when Hesse was deeply studying Buddhist and Hindu texts.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - The Chosen
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Chaim Potok · Religion & Spirituality
The Chosen is set in Brooklyn in the 1940s and follows two Jewish boys — Reuven Malter, modern Orthodox and the son of a Talmud scholar, and Danny Saunders, the brilliant son of a Hasidic rebbe — who meet during a baseball game that turns violent and becomes an unlikely friendship.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Good Omens
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Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
Good Omens is a comic fantasy novel about the impending apocalypse and the attempts of an angel and a demon — Aziraphale and Crowley, who have been stationed on Earth since the Beginning — to prevent it.
Both dig into good versus evil.
Read the summary → - The Eye of the World
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Robert Jordan · Fantasy
The Eye of the World is the opening volume of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, a fourteen-book series that spent more than two decades reshaping the commercial landscape of epic fantasy.
Both dig into good versus evil.
Read the summary → - A Court of Mist and Fury
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
Feyre Archeron is nineteen, hunting in winter to feed her family, when she kills a wolf in the forest and is taken by a creature from Prythian — the land of the fae — as payment for a life.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Darker Shade of Magic
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V.E. Schwab · Fantasy
A Darker Shade of Magic is set across four parallel versions of London — Red, Grey, White, and the long-destroyed Black — each existing in the same location but separated by the barriers between worlds.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Game of Thrones
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George R.R. Martin · Fantasy
A Game of Thrones is the first volume of George R.R.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Little Hatred
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Joe Abercrombie · Fantasy
A Little Hatred is the first book in Abercrombie's The Age of Madness trilogy, set in the same world as his First Law trilogy but a generation later.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Wizard of Earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Fantasy
A Wizard of Earthsea is Ursula K.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - American Gods
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
American Gods opens with Shadow Moon, a man released from prison days early because his wife has died in a car accident.
A kindred fantasy read.
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Books like A Wrinkle in Time: quick answers
What are the best books like A Wrinkle in Time?
The best books like A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with A Wrinkle in Time, such as good versus evil, love as resistance, conformity and individuality.
What should I read after A Wrinkle in Time?
A natural next read after A Wrinkle in Time is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman.
What books are similar to A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle?
A Wrinkle in Time centers on good versus evil, love as resistance, conformity and individuality. Books with a similar feel include The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
