Books like Dark companion by Andre Norton

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

In early‑19th‑century Britain, cousins Bonnie and Sylvia, aided by their friend Simon the goose‑boy, outwit a cruel governess and a sinister boarding‑school teacher while wolves raid rural villages.

In seventh grade, Duncan Dougal discovers an alien in his school and finds himself plugged into a brain-frying machine, racing to expose the alien teachers before his own mind—and the planet—are destroyed.

A mutant exile, Fors, and his feline companion wander the northern wastes after a cataclysmic nuclear war, confronting deadly threats and uncovering a staggering secret about humanity’s ruined past.

A young governess travels to a frontier planet with the children she cares for—and discovers their involvement with an uncanny, malevolent power.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Mike and Susan race against time to shield their younger brother from a menacing, invisible force that haunts their ancestral home—an unsettling ghostly curse threatening the family’s safety.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

Redliners by David Drake is a science‑fiction novel that delves into the challenges and opportunities of life on other worlds and how humans adapt to new environments.

A tale of the petticoats between sisters and the haunting secrets of the dollager family, this novel will keep you on the edge of your seat with its psychological tension and spine-tingling plot twists.

In a sprawling political thriller, a centuries‑old vampire named Valerian manipulates U.S. Capitol intrigue while a young aide uncovers a murder plot that spans Rome to Washington, D.C., forcing a race to stop the Dark Companion.