Books like Anansi Boys
12 books with a reading profile close to Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
The Wee Free Men
by Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, a resident of the rural Chalk, faces an invasion when a portal opens from the realm of the Queen of the Fairies.
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2
Cinderella Is Dead
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the kingdom of Mersailles has become a rigid patriarchy.
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3
Harry Potter (series) 1-7
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Harry Potter is a series of seven novels following an orphaned boy who discovers his heritage as a wizard on his eleventh birthday.
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4
Nimona
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Lord Ballister Blackheart is a disgraced knight turned villain who follows a strict moral code of non-lethal schemes to expose the corruption of the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics.
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5
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
entertainment, narrative
Ten-year-old Harry Potter lives in a cupboard under the stairs, bullied by his aunt, uncle, and cousin.
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6
Prince Caspian Movie Tie-in Edition (rack)
by C. S. Lewis
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
A year after their departure from Narnia, the Pevensie siblings are pulled back from a British railway station to find centuries have passed in the magical realm.
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Good Omens
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Aziraphale, a fussy angel and rare book dealer, and Crowley, a fast-living demon who drives a vintage Bentley, have inhabited Earth since the Garden of Eden.
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8
Bone: The Complete Edition
by Jeff Smith
entertainment, narrative
The narrative follows the three Bone cousins—Phoney, Smiley, and the earnest Fone Bone—after they are exiled from Boneville into a vast, uncharted valley.
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9
Inheritance Cycle Eragon Eldest Brisingr
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Farmhand Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the Spine mountains that hatches into the dragon Saphira.
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10
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric are talented alchemists who violated a core natural law by attempting to resurrect their deceased mother.
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11
The Emperor's Soul
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Shai is a Forger, a practitioner of magic who can rewrite an object’s history to alter its physical form.
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12
The Sword of Kaigen
by M.L. Wang
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
On the frozen Takayubi peninsula, the Matsuda clan serves as the Shirojima Empire’s defensive shield, using hereditary water-manipulation techniques to crystallize moisture into lethal ice blades.
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