The quick run-down: Ned, the pie maker, has the ability to bring dead people (and plants and animals) back to life, but only for a minute or someone else dies. When his childhood sweetheart Chuck dies, he brings her back to life (and leaves her alive). After catching wind of Ned’s abilities, private investigator Emerson Cod offers Ned a deal to work on murder cases together, splitting reward money, with Ned acting as a psychic. Chuck joins them on their investigations, acting as the hand to hold. Oh yeah, and Ned and Chuck can’t touch or Chuck will die again, forever. via GIPHY Pushing Daisies is the kind of show that makes you want two things: pie and a really good book. Chuck is an avid reader, filling her aunts’ home with books and books and books. There’s an episode with a bookstore that only sells popup books, and it inspires Emerson to write his own. The show’s fairytale tone is nostalgic and cheeky, with Jim Dale as the omniscient narrator. While Pushing Daisies was never made into a book series, these nine books invite you to step into a world where magic might be possible, even if there is a murderer on the loose or a potential romantic subplot happening. Once you’ve read these books, find some more whimsy in the everyday with 7 Quirky Books Like Good Omens and 23 Fun and Delightful Light Fantasy Novels. Save a slice for later, because Pushing Daisies is always good for a rewatch.
