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12 books with a reading profile close to The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. Outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.

1

Micah Clarke

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

In the late seventeenth century, young Micah Clarke leaves his father’s shop in Hampshire to join the Monmouth Rebellion against King James II.
2

The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony Hope, Gary Hoppenstand

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman with an uncanny physical resemblance to the heir of Ruritania, travels to the small European kingdom for a royal coronation.
3

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

D’Artagnan, a headstrong provincial nobleman, arrives in 17th-century Paris hoping to join the elite guard of King Louis XIII.
4

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

In medieval Nottinghamshire, young Robin Hood becomes an outlaw after killing a royal deer and an abusive forester in self-defense.
5

Schweizerische Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

The narrative recounts the experiences of a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four sons—Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz—after their ship wrecks on a deserted tropical island.
6

Ivanhoe

by Walter Scott

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Set in twelfth-century England, the story follows Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a Saxon knight returning from the Crusades to a land fractured by ethnic tension.
7

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

In 1872 London, the stoic Phileas Fogg bets half his fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in exactly eighty days.
8

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emmuska Orczy

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Set during the Reign of Terror in 1792, the plot follows a mysterious English vigilante known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, who leads a secret society to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine.
9

Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Professor Otto Lidenbrock, a stern German mineralogist, discovers a coded runic manuscript claiming a volcanic passage leads to the terrestrial core.
10

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

This collection compiles every mystery featuring the eccentric private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his companion, Dr.
11

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.
12

Valley of the Dolls

by Jacqueline Susann

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

In 1945, Anne Welles leaves her quiet New England home for New York City, where she finds work at a theatrical agency.

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