Books like The Princess Bride
12 books with a reading profile close to The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
by Axie Oh
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In this reimagining of the Korean folk tale The Tale of Shim Cheong, Mina lives in a village ravaged by storms and floods.
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2
Breaking Dawn
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Bella Swan and Edward Cullen marry, concluding their long courtship with a wedding in Forks before departing for a private island.
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3
The Twilight Saga
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks, Washington, where she meets Edward Cullen, a classmate who belongs to a family of vampires who abstain from human blood.
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4
BRIMSTONE
by Callie Hart
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Saeris Fane and Fisher continue their search for a way to protect their people across the volatile landscape of the Upper Realm.
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5
Cruel Beauty
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Nyx Trachsel has spent her entire life training to assassinate the Gentle Lord, the demonic ruler who holds her world in a magical bargain.
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6
If You Could See the Sun
by Ann Liang
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Alice Sun is a scholarship student at Airi International Boarding School in Beijing, where she feels invisible among her wealthy classmates.
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7
City of Glass
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Clary Fray travels illegally to Alicante, the ancestral capital of the Shadowhunters, to find a way to wake her mother from a magical coma.
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8
Mortal Instruments City of Ashes Book 2 a Novel
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In this sequel, Clary Fray navigates the New York Shadow World while her mother remains in a magically induced coma.
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9
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Mika Moon is a lonely witch who hides her magic to protect herself and her community from discovery.
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10
The Wishing Game
by Meg Shaffer
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Lucy Hart is a teacher’s aide who dreams of adopting Christopher, a young boy in foster care, but lacks the financial stability to satisfy the state's requirements.
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11
The Seven Year Slip
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Clementine West is a publicist in New York City who inherits her late aunt’s apartment, a space that periodically travels seven years into its own past.
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12
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Saffron Thorpe is a witch who, after experiencing a public and humiliating loss of her magical powers, inherits a dilapidated inn in a remote village.
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