I am going to go out on a limb and say that House of Many Ways does a better job as a fantasy novel with a library angle than either of those books. After some deep thought, I could only come up with The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and Lirael by Garth Nix from my own reading experiences. Surprisingly few recent fantasy novels feature libraries. Diana Wynne Jones’ newest fantasy novel House of Many Ways (2008) centers on an aspiring librarian of sorts and actually deals with both libraries and graduation-related matters at the same time. In my own case, that switch meant thinking about the start of rigorous librarian training which others might know more commonly as graduate school. The moment when attentions shift from life in college (or high school, or grade school) to life after.
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