If it was Maurice’s dry asides and Malicia Grim’s gleeful skewering of story clichés that hooked you, you’ll love the way The Last Dragonslayer lampoons corporate magic and prophecy. Jennifer Strange’s quips land with the same sideways grin as Maurice’s schemes in Bad Blintz, and the world’s bureaucratic absurdities feel like cousins to Pratchett’s playful send-ups—just swap rat catchers and pied-piper scams for licensing boards, detailed forms, and a dragon whose fate becomes a very funny moral tangle.

Enjoyed how The Amazing Maurice riffs on the Pied Piper and how Malicia keeps pointing out what “should” happen in a story? Good Omens does that same wry tango with the Apocalypse. Aziraphale and Crowley bumble through prophecies with the same self-aware cheek that turns Mr. Bunnsy’s children’s-book wisdom into running commentary, and the book delights in undercutting big, solemn narratives the way Maurice undercuts fairy-tale logic in Bad Blintz.

If Maurice’s pied-piper racket and quicksilver conscience won you over—especially the way he pivots when Dangerous Beans and Darktan force him to face the cost of the con—then Artemis Fowl is your next fix. Artemis begins as a ruthless prodigy pulling an audacious heist on the fairy People, but like Maurice, he’s more complicated than his scam. Watching his icy plan collide with the fierce integrity of Captain Holly Short echoes Maurice’s dance between grift and responsibility.

If you liked following Maurice, Malicia, and the Educated Rodents as they uncover the rat catchers’ plot and the eerie Piper haunting Bad Blintz, The Screaming Staircase delivers that same puzzle-box thrill. Lockwood, Lucy, and George investigate lethal hauntings with banter as sharp as Maurice’s one-liners, and each case peels back layers of conspiracy and local rot much like the cellar revelations beneath the town—only with extra ghosts and sword canes.

If Dangerous Beans’ philosophy and Darktan’s hard-won leadership moved you—and if the book’s question “what do we owe those who have less power?” stuck—then Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a perfect echo. The NIMH rats grapple with what it means to build a just society after gaining intelligence, balancing survival with principle much like the Educated Rodents debating the right way to live beyond a scam. It’s tender, tense, and morally resonant in the same way Maurice’s final choices are.