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The Wish List

author: Eoin Colfer (2000)
date read: 2008-08-01
pages: 232
lists: fantasy, german, ya
rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Cover of The Wish List.

Meg Finn, 15, is a troublemaker and also dead. Because her good and bad deeds balanced out perfectly, she has to go back and help her last victim go through his bucket list – all while her last partner sabotages the mission.

Cover of Before I Fall.

Before I Fall

by Lauren Oliver · published 2010 · read 2017-06-27
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Another "save yourself after your death" story.
Cover of The Library of the Unwritten.

The Library of the Unwritten

by A.J. Hackwith · published 2019 · read 2020-10-30
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ (did not finish)
More people getting caught in the conflict between heaven and hell.
Cover of Artemis Fowl.

Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer · published 2001 · read 2004-02-01
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Eoin Colfer's better-known books. Similar tone, probably a bit better but also more drawn-out.
Cover of The Graveyard Book.

The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman · published 2008 · read 2015-04-15
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
A similarly casual take on the afterlife.