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Books like Uprooted
The best books like Uprooted are A Darker Shade of Magic, Spinning Silver, and The Goblin Emperor. Uprooted by Naomi Novik is about coming of age, nature and corruption, knowledge and power. 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.
- 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 → - Spinning Silver
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Naomi Novik · Fantasy
Spinning Silver is a loose retelling of Rumpelstiltskin set in a fantasy world inspired by medieval Eastern Europe, with particular roots in Russian and Jewish folk tradition.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - The Goblin Emperor
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Katherine Addison · Fantasy
The Goblin Emperor begins with an accident: Maia, the half-goblin, half-elf youngest son of the Emperor — long exiled to a remote estate and treated as an embarrassment — learns that his father and three brothers have been killed in an airship crash.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - 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 → - Stardust
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
Stardust begins with a simple bargain: young Tristran Thorn promises a girl he fancies that he will bring her a fallen star, and to find it he must cross the wall at the edge of his English village into Faerie.
Shares coming of age and identity and transformation with Uprooted.
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.
Shares coming of age and community and sacrifice with Uprooted.
Read the summary → - A Wizard of Earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Fantasy
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Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - Neverwhere
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
Neverwhere began as a BBC TV series in 1996 and was novelized by Gaiman in the same year.
Both dig into identity and transformation.
Read the summary → - The Midnight Sun
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Stephenie Meyer · Fantasy
Midnight Sun is Stephenie Meyer's retelling of Twilight (2005) from the perspective of Edward Cullen, the vampire who falls in love with Bella Swan in a small Washington town.
Both dig into identity and transformation.
Read the summary → - Angela's Ashes
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Frank McCourt · Memoir
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's memoir of a catastrophically impoverished Irish Catholic childhood, first in Brooklyn and then in Limerick, during the 1930s and 1940s.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - Barbarian Days
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William Finnegan · Memoir
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of a life spent surfing — from his childhood in Los Angeles and Hawaii through decades of obsessive searching for waves across the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and eventually the cold waters of New York.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - Boy Erased: A Memoir
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Garrard Conley · Memoir
Boy Erased is Garrard Conley's memoir of attending Love in Action, a conversion therapy program in Memphis, Tennessee, in the early 2000s.
Both dig into coming of age.
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Books like Uprooted: quick answers
What are the best books like Uprooted?
The best books like Uprooted by Naomi Novik are A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Uprooted, such as coming of age, nature and corruption, knowledge and power.
What should I read after Uprooted?
A natural next read after Uprooted is A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
What books are similar to Uprooted by Naomi Novik?
Uprooted centers on coming of age, nature and corruption, knowledge and power. Books with a similar feel include A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
