Books like Fool
12 books with a reading profile close to Fool by Christopher Moore. Outward-looking and escapist; an easy read.
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The Alloy of Law
Also 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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Dawnshard
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Rysn Ftori, a merchant owner who lost the use of her legs, accepts a dangerous naval commission to sail to the hidden island of Akinah.
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New Spring (The Wheel of Time, Book 0)
Also 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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Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
In this third collection, the exiled community of Fabletown faces internal scandals and external threats.
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Steel and snow
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Published as the first half of the third volume in the series, Steel and Snow follows the escalating civil war across Westeros after the Battle of the Blackwater.
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Murtagh
Also 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 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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Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
When the Adversary conquers the fairytale homelands, a community of folklore figures flees to modern-day Manhattan to establish Fabletown.
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Legends. Volume I
by Robert Silverberg, Stephen King
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Legends: Volume I is an anthology of original short stories set within established literary universes.
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10
A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set nearly a century before the events of the Iron Throne succession struggle, this collection follows the travels of a towering, low-born hedge knight named Ser Duncan the Tall and his diminutive squire, Egg.
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A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, Book 7)
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In the aftermath of the battle at Dumai’s Wells, Rand al'Thor consolidates his rule over Cairhien and Caemlyn while recovering from his imprisonment by the Aes Sedai.
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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
by Mike Carey
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Richard Mayhew is an ordinary London office worker whose life unravels after he stops to help a bleeding girl named Door on a sidewalk.
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