If you enjoyed the sly, whimsical humor and the delightfully eccentric voice of Marian Leatherby in The Hearing Trumpet, you'll love Lolly Willowes. Warner's novel follows Laura 'Lolly' Willowes as she escapes her stuffy family for a rural village—only to become a witch and commune with the Devil himself. The book is packed with understated wit, unexpected turns, and a gently surreal, comic atmosphere.

If you were drawn to the mysterious, dreamlike magic in The Hearing Trumpet—where nuns live in gingerbread houses and the ordinary world slips easily into the surreal—you'll enjoy the peculiar, reality-bending powers and strange settings of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The book’s world brims with oddities, unexplained phenomena, and a sense of uncanny wonder.

If you loved how The Hearing Trumpet layered its story with symbols—like the transformative journey of Marian and the cryptic convent setting—Wise Children will captivate you. Carter’s novel weaves together Shakespearean motifs, twins, and theatricality to create a rich, allegorical tapestry about fate, family, and performance. It’s equally playful, deeply symbolic, and a celebration of the carnivalesque.

If you appreciated the close-knit, intimate atmosphere of the retirement home and Marian’s personal relationships in The Hearing Trumpet, The Summer Book offers a similarly gentle, character-driven experience. It follows an elderly woman and her granddaughter on a remote Finnish island, exploring their daily rituals, quiet adventures, and small acts of rebellion with warmth and subtlety.

If you were fascinated by the philosophical strangeness and questions of reality and identity in The Hearing Trumpet, Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. will mesmerize you. Through the protagonist’s hallucinatory confrontation with a cockroach, the novel dives deep into existential questions, selfhood, and the boundaries of perception, all in a hypnotic, mind-bending style.