Books like The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
12 books with a reading profile close to The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey. Escapist; a moderate read.
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The Starless Sea
narrative, literary
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student who discovers a strange library book containing a detailed account of his own childhood.
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2
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
by Neil Gaiman
narrative, literary
Dream Country consists of four independent stories that depict how Morpheus influences the waking world through imagination and myth.
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The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
by Neil Gaiman
narrative, literary
Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, travels to the gates of Hell to rescue Nada, a lover he unjustly condemned to eternal torment ten thousand years earlier.
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Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss Collection 3 Books Set
Also escapist · narrative, literary
This set follows Kvothe, an orphan who survives life as a beggar in Tarbean before gaining entry to the University to study sympathy, a logic-based system of magic.
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Blood Over Bright Haven
by M.L. Wang
narrative, literary
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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Gods of Jade and Shadow
narrative, literary
Set in 1920s Mexico, the story follows Casiopea Tun, a young woman living a life of servitude in her grandfather’s house.
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The Bright Sword
by Lev Grossman
narrative, literary
Lev Grossman retells the Arthurian legend from the point of view of Collum, a young man who arrives at Camelot after the king's fall.
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
by Mark Dunn
narrative, literary
Set on the fictional island of Nollop, the story follows Ella Minnow Pea as her community faces an increasingly restrictive linguistic crisis.
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Juniper & Thorn
by Ava Reid
narrative, literary
Set in a fictionalized nineteenth-century Odessa, this gothic fairy tale follows Marlinchen, the youngest of three sisters who live under the suffocating control of their father, a wizard named Zmey.
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Tigana
narrative, literary
Set in a Mediterranean-inspired peninsula called the Palm, the narrative centers on a group of rebels attempting to overthrow two rival sorcerer-kings, Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbentain.
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The Library at Mount Char
narrative, fantasy
Carolyn is one of twelve orphans raised by Father, a cruel god-like figure who rules a library containing the secrets of the universe.
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
by Tim Burton
narrative, literary
Tim Burton’s short story collection consists of twenty-three illustrated poems detailing the lives of misunderstood children with physical abnormalities.
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