Books like The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman reads as whimsical, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs · 2011

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

76% genome match

Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 2002

Both explore childhood & cozy fantasy

75% genome match

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling · 1894

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna · 2022

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

72% genome match

Behind the Attic Wall

Sylvia Cassedy · 1983

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 1908

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

TJ Klune · 2024

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow · 2019

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury · 1962

Both explore childhood & cozy fantasy

66% genome match

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling · 1997

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match

The Thief of Always

Clive Barker · 1992

Same fantasy feel

64% genome match

I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 1954

Shares the outsider thread

69% genome match