If the way Janet navigates Blackstock’s Classics department—and the unnerving presence of Professor Medeous—hooked you, you’ll love how Vita Nostra turns coursework into literal metamorphosis. Sasha Samokhina is recruited to a bizarre institute where assignments warp language, thought, and even the body, echoing the way Janet’s studies and Halloween ordeal with Thomas reveal that scholarship and faerie bargains can be one and the same. It captures that same campus intensity—late-night study sessions, cryptic professors, rules you only understand after you’ve broken them—then pushes it into terrifying, wondrous territory.

If the heartbeat of Tam Lin for you was Janet’s All Hallows rescue of Thomas—clinging through shape‑shifts to break the Fairy Queen’s claim—then Fire and Hemlock is a must. Polly Whittacker pieces together how her friendship with musician Thomas Lynn is bound up with an old ballad and a sinister queen’s tithe. Like Janet piecing through poems, rehearsals, and rumors at Blackstock, Polly decodes memories, stories, and photographs to fight a folkloric bargain. It’s the same mythic logic in a contemporary key, with a fiercely clever heroine who wins by knowing the tale better than the fae do.

If you loved how Tam Lin takes its time—seminars, productions, and poetry piling up until Halloween changes everything—Clarke’s novel offers a similarly luxuriant build. Mr Norrell’s dusty scholarship and Jonathan Strange’s experiments invite the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair into drawing rooms and roadsides, much as Blackstock’s classical studies conceal Medeous’s court. The wit is dry, the references deep, and the payoff—like Janet’s climactic stand—lands precisely because the world has been so patiently, cleverly laid.

If what charmed you in Tam Lin was how the magic stayed mostly at the edges—peeking out from lectures, theater rehearsals, and campus gossip—Lud-in-the-Mist works the same spell. Mayor Nathaniel Chanticleer tries to keep his sober town free of anything ‘faerie,’ only to find illicit fairy fruit and old pacts threading through everyday life. As with Janet and Thomas at Blackstock, the uncanny slips in through culture, habit, and story rather than flashy spellcraft, and the revelations feel like recognizing something that was always there.

If the delighted, quotey banter in Tam Lin—Janet and friends trading lines from plays, arguing over books, and making you laugh—was your favorite part, Among Others speaks your language. Morwenna Phelps copes with boarding school by devouring novels and writing with bone-dry wit, while negotiating a subtle magic that feels as everyday as a library card. Like Janet’s friendships and her deadpan observations of Blackstock’s theatricals and the inscrutable Classics faculty, Mori’s voice is warm, nerdy, and often very funny, making the small wonders sparkle.