Books like The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
12 books with a reading profile close to The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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1
Inheritance Cycle Eragon Eldest Brisingr
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Farmhand Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the Spine mountains that hatches into the dragon Saphira.
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2
Harry Potter (series) 1-7
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Harry Potter is a series of seven novels following an orphaned boy who discovers his heritage as a wizard on his eleventh birthday.
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3
The Ransom of Red Chief
by O. Henry
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
The story follows Bill and Sam, two small-time con artists who kidnap Johnny, the ten-year-old son of a prominent citizen in Alabama, to fund a real estate scam.
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4
The Light Fantastic
by Terry Pratchett, Ernest Riera
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
The Light Fantastic picks up immediately after the wizard Rincewind and the tourist Twoflower fall off the edge of the Discworld.
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The Wee Free Men
by Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, a resident of the rural Chalk, faces an invasion when a portal opens from the realm of the Queen of the Fairies.
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The Wizard of Oz
Also clear-cut and escapist · narrative, accessible
When a cyclone uproots a Kansas farmhouse, Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, land in the vibrant Land of Oz.
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The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Also clear-cut and escapist · narrative, accessible
L.
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8
Cinderella Is Dead
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the kingdom of Mersailles has become a rigid patriarchy.
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9
Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Fat Charlie Nancy leads a timid, predictable life in London until his estranged father, Mr.
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10
Bone: The Complete Edition
by Jeff Smith
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
The narrative follows the three Bone cousins—Phoney, Smiley, and the earnest Fone Bone—after they are exiled from Boneville into a vast, uncharted valley.
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11
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, accessible
Charlie Bucket lives in a cramped, freezing shack with his parents and four bedridden grandparents, surviving on thin cabbage soup.
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12
Prince Caspian Movie Tie-in Edition (rack)
by C. S. Lewis
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
A year after their departure from Narnia, the Pevensie siblings are pulled back from a British railway station to find centuries have passed in the magical realm.
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