Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011) Hollow City (2014) Library of Souls (2015) A Map of Days (2018) The Conference of the Birds (2020) The Desolations of Devil’s Acre (2021)
⚡ Pace: medium · 🎭 Emotions: eerie, adventurous · 🚪 Entry threshold: low · ⭐ Why read: unique photo concept, imaginative world
A boy chasing the last words of his grandfather stumbles onto a mystery that bends time itself. Jacob grows up hearing stories about children with impossible abilities and a guardian who watches over them, but only after a tragedy does he begin to wonder: were those tales metaphors, or fragments of something real? The first book follows him to a lonely island, a ruined orphanage, and a path that keeps circling back to the same questions. Why do the photographs look so vivid? And why does the past seem close enough to touch?
As Jacob uncovers the truth hidden in those walls, the world expands into loops of time, forgotten shelters, and children who never age yet carry memories older than his entire family. Their abilities feel both wondrous and unsettling, shaped by a constant need to hide from creatures that sense them across timelines. Each volume shifts perspective to reveal new corners of this universe – from war-torn cities to strange academies, from alternative routes through history to threats that stretch far beyond one loop. The cycle grows broader, but its emotional axis stays with the tension between belonging and danger.
Jacob’s place among the peculiar children becomes a choice: protect them, follow them, or forge a path they haven’t dared imagine. But how do you decide when every timeline pulls in a different direction?
📚 Did you know 📖
The series was born from Ransom Riggs’s collection of old “peculiar photographs” he discovered at flea markets.
Hollow City (2014) and Library of Souls (2015) continued the story from the first novel, cementing the saga’s cult following.
The books combined gothic aesthetics, fantasy, and photographic collage, creating a distinctive visual-literary style.
The series reached the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into dozens of languages.
Legend has it: Riggs admitted that he sometimes created entire plotlines just to “fit in another peculiar photograph.”