Books like Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
12 books with a reading profile close to Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen. Escapist; an easy read.
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The Last Continent
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Rincewind the wizard is magically stranded on the sun-scorched continent of Fourecks, an unfinished landmass where it never rains.
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The Colour of Magic
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
On a flat world supported by four elephants standing on the back of a giant space turtle, an inept wizard named Rincewind becomes the reluctant guide for Twoflower, the Discworld’s first tourist.
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Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
by Alan Moore
entertainment, fantasy
When writer Alan Moore took over the title in 1983, he restructured the protagonist’s origin through a biological revelation.
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The Familiar
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Set in the Spanish Golden Age, the story follows Luzia Cotado, a scullery maid who uses remnants of prohibited Sephardic magic to ease her daily toil.
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The Emperor's Soul
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Shai is a Forger, a practitioner of magic who can rewrite an object’s history to alter its physical form.
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A Torre Negra
by Stephen King
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Roland Deschain, the final gunslinger of a decaying world where time and geography have become unstable, pursues a mysterious sorcerer known as the Man in Black across a vast desert.
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The Blade Itself
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
The story follows three central figures in a decaying kingdom called the Union.
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Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw
Also escapist · entertainment, experimental
Denji is a teenager so poor that he has sold his organs and works as a devil hunter, paying off his dead father's debts to the yakuza with the help of his pet, Pochita, a small chainsaw devil.
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The First Law Trilogy
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Logen Ninefingers, a northern warrior weary of battle, journeys south to Join the Union at the request of the magus Bayaz.
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Mistborn
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
In a world buried under falling ash, the immortal Lord Ruler maintains a thousand-year stranglehold on the oppressed skaa population.
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Servant of the Bones
by Anne Rice
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Azriel is a Hebrew servant who is made a djinn, a spirit bound to serve a master, and he narrates his long history from ancient Babylon to the present.
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Inheritance Cycle
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Eragon, a farm boy in the land of Alagaesia, discovers a polished blue stone that hatches into a dragon named Saphira.
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