Books like Uprooted
12 books with a reading profile close to Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Scorpio Races
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
On the island of Thisby, the November tides bring the Capaill Uisce, predatory water horses that emerge from the sea with a hunger for human flesh.
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The Ghost Bride
by Yangsze Choo
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Li Lan, a young woman from a declining family in colonial Malacca in 1893, receives an unusual marriage proposal from the wealthy Lim family: to wed their dead son as a ghost bride.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow belongs to a lineage of women plagued by hereditary hallucinations and sudden disappearances.
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Heartless
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Long before she became the Red Queen, Catherine Pinkerton dreams of opening a bakery rather than marrying the King of Hearts.
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Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Princess Soraya lives hidden within the walls of a rose garden, cursed with a poisonous touch that kills any living thing she encounters.
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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Unabridged CD Audiobook .
by Diana Gabaldon, Davina Porter
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall travels to the Scottish Highlands with her husband to reconnect after the war.
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City of Bones/City of Ashes/City of Glass/City of Fallen Angels/City of Lost Souls
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Clary Fray discovers she descends from a line of Shadowhunters, human-angel hybrids who police a hidden world of vampires, werewolves, and faeries in modern New York.
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Claire and Jamie Fraser face the year 1772 in the North Carolina mountains, where the escalating American Revolution threatens the safety of their settlement, Fraser’s Ridge.
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ALCHEMISED
by SenLinYu
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In the aftermath of a devastating conflict, Myra, an alchemist held in captivity, is delivered to a necromancer named Heiron to undergo an agonizing mental extraction.
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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric are talented alchemists who violated a core natural law by attempting to resurrect their deceased mother.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter works as an overworked employee at the Ministry of Magic while his son, Albus Severus, struggles with the weight of his family legacy.
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Thornhedge
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In this subversion of the Sleeping Beauty myth, Toadling is a changeling fairy stolen from her human family and raised in the fae realm.
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