Books like Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
12 books with a reading profile close to Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Murtagh
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn, live as outcasts on the fringes of Alagaësia following the fall of King Galbatorix.
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Eragon & Eldest
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
On the farm lands of Palancar Valley, a teenager named Eragon discovers a polished blue stone that hatches into a dragon he names Saphira.
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THE ASTRAL LIBRARY
by Kate Quinn
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
When a librarian discovers an unmarked mahogany door within the depths of the Boston Public Library, she gains access to a clandestine subterranean archive housing manuscripts that function as physical gateways.
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New Spring (The Wheel of Time, Book 0)
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set twenty years before the main sequence begins, the narrative focuses on Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche as they transition from Accepted to full Aes Sedai in the White Tower.
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Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Arcanum Unbounded compiles stories and novellas set within the Cosmere, a shared universe where various planets host unique magical systems.
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Legends. Volume I
by Robert Silverberg, Stephen King
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Legends: Volume I is an anthology of original short stories set within established literary universes.
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The Eyes of the Dragon
by Stephen King
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Set in the realm of Delain, this narrative follows the imprisonment of Prince Peter, who is framed for the murder of his father, King Roland.
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The Alloy of Law
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set three hundred years after the original Mistborn trilogy, this story follows Waxillium Ladrian, a lawman who leaves the frontier Roughs to manage his noble house in the industrializing city of Elendel.
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The mortal instruments
by Cassandra Clare, Cassandra Jean
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Set in a hidden, supernatural New York City, this story follows Clary Fray, a teenager who discovers she belongs to a secret race of warriors called Shadowhunters.
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The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite
by Gerard Way
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Sir Reginald Hargreeves, an eccentric billionaire and space alien, adopts seven children born simultaneously to mothers who showed no prior signs of pregnancy.
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Red Country
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Shy South lives a quiet life on a frontier farm until raiders burn her home and kidnap her younger siblings.
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The Mortal Instruments 6
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
In the final installment of the series, Sebastian Morgenstern leads an army of Endarkened warriors to systematically destroy the Shadowhunter Institutes.
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