If the vintage photos and clipped ephemera in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children made Jacob’s hunt through Abe’s past feel chillingly real, you’ll love how Illuminae uses ship logs, surveillance transcripts, and redacted files to make its conspiracy feel tangible. Just like piecing together the truth about hollowgasts from photographs and letters, you sift through found materials to uncover what really happened aboard the escaping colony ships—and the format itself becomes part of the suspense.

You followed Jacob through the 1940 Cairnholm loop, watching him step from the present into Miss Peregrine’s yesterday to rescue the peculiar children. In The Girl from Everywhere, Nix sails a map-wrangling ship that can slip into any year drawn—her quests through Honolulu’s past echo the thrill of Jacob’s jumps between times. The stakes—saving family, untangling fate, and choosing where (and when) you belong—will hit the same nerve as Jacob’s leap into the loop for Emma and the others.

If you loved how Jacob, Emma, Enoch, and the rest of Miss Peregrine’s wards forged a home together under a protective mentor, you’ll click with Blue, Gansey, Ronan, Adam, and Noah as they close ranks while hunting a sleeping Welsh king. The way the peculiars rely on each other against hollowgasts and wights mirrors this crew’s messy, heartfelt bond as they navigate magic, danger, and destiny as a found family.

Jacob’s search through Abe’s photographs, Miss Peregrine’s secrets, and those ominous cairns plays like a paranormal puzzle—right down to confronting a monstrous threat stalking innocents. In The Diviners, Evie O’Neill decodes occult clues across 1920s New York to stop a supernatural killer. The blend of historical atmosphere, escalating dread, and clue-driven sleuthing scratches the same itch as tracking hollowgasts through the 1940 loop.

Jacob’s realization that his grandfather’s stories were true—and that he’s peculiar too—drives him toward a community that understands him. Every Heart a Doorway centers on Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, a refuge for teens returned from other worlds. Like Miss Peregrine guiding her flock, Eleanor shelters kids changed by magic; the aching questions of identity and belonging echo Jacob’s journey from bewildered outsider to someone who’s finally found his place.