![]() ![]() The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman.However, if you’ve already read His Dark Materials, what other books can sate your soul? Lyra remains one of the best lead characters in YA and children’s fiction and has far more agency and colour than certain other popular children’s fictional characters. Pullman expertly posits worlds much like our own, and some that are wildly different and terrifying (see The Subtle Knife). What makes these books great, is the imagination on display. You can talk to it, and it changes form regularly until you mature when the soul settles into its final form. In Lyra’s world, your soul lives outside of your body in the form of a daemon. ![]() The story follows Lyra Belacqa, a 12-year-old girl who lives in an alternative version of our own world, as she slowly uncovers a conspiracy to dominate people’s souls by the ruling theocracy (the Magisterium – also known as ‘the Church’). This was followed by The Subtle Knifein 1997, and The Amber Spyglass in 2000. The first book in His Dark Materials slipped onto bookshelves way back in 1995 with Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in North America). ![]() ![]() They are well written, have memorable characters and are filled with fantastic settings. Are you searching for more books like His Dark Materials? ![]()
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