Books like Moving Pictures
12 books with a reading profile close to Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. Escapist; a moderate read.
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Wyrd Sisters
Also escapist · entertainment, literary
In the kingdom of Lancre, three witches—the authoritative Granny Weatherwax, the earthy Nanny Ogg, and the novice Magrat Garlick—intervene in royal succession after the murder of King Verence I.
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2
Maskerade
Also escapist · entertainment, literary
In the sprawling city of Ankh-Morpork, the local Opera House is haunted by a masked figure who leaves cryptic notes and commits occasional murders.
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3
A Storm of Swords
Also escapist · entertainment, literary
The War of the Five Kings reaches a violent peak as the Stark family faces total collapse.
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4
The road goes ever on
by Donald Swann, J.R.R. Tolkien
literary, fantasy
The Road Goes Ever On is a formal song cycle consisting of music composed by Donald Swann for poems written by J.R.R.
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Marvel 1602
by Neil Gaiman
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Set in the final days of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign, Marvel 1602 reimagines the Marvel Universe within the political and religious tensions of the seventeenth century.
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7
Stone Blind
literary, fantasy
Natalie Haynes reconstructs the myth of Medusa, shifting the perspective from the hero Perseus to the mortal Gorgon herself.
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8
Dreams and Dust
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Dreams and Dust comprises the second half of A Dance with Dragons, the fifth novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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9
Blood Over Bright Haven
by M.L. Wang
literary, fantasy
Scilla Highborn is the first woman admitted into the High Circle of mages in Bright Haven, a city powered by magical energy harvested through precise mathematical equations.
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10
Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Maika Halfwolf is a teenage survivor of a genocidal war between the feline-like Arcanics and the Cumaea, an order of sorceresses who consume Arcanics to fuel their magic.
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11
A Memory of Light
by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
Also escapist · entertainment, fantasy
Rand al’Thor leads the forces of the Light to the Bore at Shayol Ghul to face the Dark One in a final confrontation known as Tarmon Gai’don.
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12
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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