If you loved how Tiffany uses deadpan headology, a frying pan, and the Nac Mac Feegle’s rowdy one-liners to puncture the Queen of the Elves’ menace, you’ll click with the sparkle of humor in Howl’s Moving Castle. Sophie’s no-nonsense attitude collides hilariously with the preening wizard Howl, while fire demon Calcifer’s snark matches the Feegles’ mischief beat for beat. It’s that same charming blend of sharp quips, everyday practicality, and reality-check magic that made Tiffany’s adventures so much fun.

Tiffany’s journey—from a Chalk farm girl to someone who can outthink a faerie queen and safeguard Wentworth—echoes in September’s bold trek through Fairyland. Like Tiffany, September must learn the rules of a strange land, make hard choices, and own the consequences. If Tiffany’s clear-eyed courage, quick wits, and gradual embrace of responsibility won you over, September’s shipbuilding audacity and face-off with the Marquess will feel like a kindred triumph.

When Tiffany crosses into the Queen’s dream-sheened realm to save Wentworth, it mirrors Coraline slipping through the little door to confront the Other Mother. Both girls face a beautiful, treacherous world where words and nerve matter more than brute force. If the eerie glamour of the Elf Queen’s domain—and the way Tiffany keeps her head, bargains smartly, and comes home with her brother—thrilled you, Coraline’s button-eyed adversary and cat-guided rescue will hit the same sweet spot.

If Tiffany’s steel—standing firm on the Chalk, matching the Elf Queen in will, and living up to Miss Tick and Granny Weatherwax’s example—was your favorite part, you’ll admire Sabriel. She crosses into the Old Kingdom to confront death itself, using her necromancer’s bells with the same grounded resolve Tiffany brings to her ‘witching.’ Both heroines step into danger not for glory, but because the job needs doing—and they’re the ones who’ll do it right.

Miss Tick’s guidance—and the shadow of Granny Weatherwax’s standards—helps Tiffany turn raw talent and common sense into real witchcraft. In The Girl Who Drank the Moon, the witch Xan inadvertently enmagics baby Luna and then raises her, teaching compassion alongside craft. If you enjoyed how Tiffany learns what power is for (and what it isn’t), you’ll love watching Luna’s gifts unfold with help from Xan, the poetic swamp monster Glerk, and tiny dragon Fyrian, all amid truths that must be faced head-on.