Seven books featuring characters with imaginary friends

Evie Green is a pseudonym for a British author who has written professionally for her entire adult life. She lives by the sea in England with her husband, children, and guinea pigs, and loves writing in the very early morning, fueled by coffee.

Green's new novel is We Hear Voices.

At CrimeReads she tagged seven titles featuring characters with imaginary friends, including:

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks

The child at the centre of this story, Max, is also eight, and also a loner. In this world imaginary friends have the appearance and

powers that the children (or in one case here, an adult) imagined for them. So Budo, our narrator, is pleased to look almost like a regular human, and thanks to his creator Max Delaney, has the power to go through doors (but not walls) and to head off to other places when Max doesn’t need him. Budo is devoted to Max, who is neurodivergent, and when Max vanishes at a time when Budo isn’t with him, has to turn detective and ultimately face a choice between confronting his own greatest fear, and saving his human.

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue