If Jack’s flip between America and the Territories hooked you—the way Speedy Parker nudges him onto a life-or-death road and agents of Morgan Sloat hound his steps—you’ll love how Richard Mayhew slips into London Below to aid Door. You’ll get eccentric allies like the Marquis de Carabas, ruthless pursuers in Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar, and set-pieces that echo Jack’s trials (think the Blackfriars ordeal mirroring Jack’s tests on the way to the Talisman). It’s the same urgent, quest-driven momentum, just under London’s streets instead of along Jack’s inter-world highway.

If you connected with Jack Sawyer’s growing grit—befriending Wolf, surviving Sunlight Gardener’s hellish school, and choosing compassion even while hunted—Cory Mackenson’s year in Zephyr will resonate. It begins with a car sinking into a lake and a dead man handcuffed to the wheel, then spirals through magical brushes (the town’s mysterious Lady) and real menace (mobsters, racists, bullies). Like Jack’s journey toward the Talisman to save his mother, Cory’s coming-of-age marries the uncanny with the everyday until a boy learns what kind of man he’ll be.

If the way Jack’s ordinary world kept warping—The Territories peeking through diners, beaches, and amusement parks—left a mark, this will, too. A man revisits his childhood and remembers Lettie Hempstock, the "ocean" in her pond, and a lodger-turned-entity (Ursula Monkton) who slips into his family like the malign forces that stalk Jack. As with Jack’s brush with ancient power and the healing Talisman, this tale blends intimate stakes with mythic weight, right down to ravenous "hunger birds" that feel like cousins to the predatory threats Jack faced.

If you loved how Jack’s trek spanned highways and dimensions—collecting allies like Speedy and Wolf while Morgan Sloat marshaled his own forces—The Stand scales that feeling up to an apocalyptic canvas. Survivors drift toward Mother Abagail or Randall Flagg, with odysseys to Boulder and Las Vegas echoing Jack’s long haul to the Talisman. It delivers that same sense of a world-sized board where every mile changes the stakes, and where the showdown carries the moral and mythic punch you felt when Jack finally lifted the Talisman.

If Jack’s race to heal his mother—slipping between our world and the Territories while malign powers close in—gripped you, Sabriel’s journey will feel like a dark mirror. She leaves school, crosses the Wall into the Old Kingdom, and wields necromantic bells and Charter magic to rescue her father, facing undead foes like the Mordicant and Kerrigor. The peril has the same bite as Jack’s run-ins with Sunlight Gardener and Sloat, and the magic carries that ominous, untidy danger you felt whenever Jack touched the Talisman’s power.