Books like The Carpet People
12 books with a reading profile close to The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett. Outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Lands of Ice and Fire
by George R. R. Martin, Jonathan Roberts
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, accessible
The Lands of Ice and Fire is a cartographic collection containing twelve high-resolution, folding maps of the fictional world from the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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The son of sobek
by Rick Riordan
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
In this short story, Demigod Percy Jackson and Magician Carter Kane collide while hunting a giant, supernatural crocodile in Long Island.
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The Titan's Curse
by Rick Riordan
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
In the third installment of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, Percy Jackson journeys to Westover Hall to recruit two new half-bloods, Bianca and Nico di Angelo.
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Odd and the Frost Giants
by Neil Gaiman
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
Odd, a young boy in a Viking village, suffers from a crippled leg and a streak of bad luck following his father’s death.
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5
A Tourist Guide To Lancre
by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, accessible
This guidebook provides a topographical and cultural inventory of Lancre, the highland kingdom situated within the Ramtop Mountains.
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6
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Mona possesses a niche magical talent: she can manipulate dough and animate baked goods.
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7
Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
Princess Diana of Themyscira yearns to prove her worth to her Amazon sisters by competing in a grueling race across their isolated island.
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
by Roald Dahl
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
Picking up directly after the events of the chocolate factory tour, Charlie Bucket and his family board a translucent lifting device that accidentally enters Earth's orbit.
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9
Fortunately, the Milk
by Neil Gaiman
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
When a father heads to the corner shop to buy milk for his children’s cereal, he returns late with a fantastic explanation for his delay.
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10
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, accessible
Hannah the rock-abilly elven mage, Violet the hipster dwarven fighter, Dee the atheist human cleric, and Betty the hippy smidgen thief comprise the Rat Queens, a rowdy mercenary crew in the fantasy town of Palisade.
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Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
This collection of ten linked stories follows Simon Lewis, once a mortal, then a vampire, who becomes a Shadowhunter trainee at the Academy in Idris.
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The Assassin's Blade
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
This collection of five prequel novellas follows Celaena Sardothien, a teenage assassin serving the ruthless Arobynn Hamel in the city of Rifthold.
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