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Books like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Loved The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from fantasy, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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The Lord of the Rings
A small hobbit carries a world-ending ring toward the only place it can be destroyed; the epic that defined the genre.
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The Hobbit
A comfortable hobbit is swept into an adventure with dwarves and a dragon; the cosy doorway into Middle-earth.
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3
A Wizard of Earthsea
A gifted boy at a school of wizardry must face the darkness he unleashed; spare, wise coming-of-age fantasy.
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4
Guards! Guards!
A drunken night watch must stop a dragon and a conspiracy; warm, funny and secretly wise Discworld.
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5
Northern Lights
A girl and her animal soul-companion journey north into a war over the nature of the soul; thrilling and profound.
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A Game of Thrones
Noble houses scheme for an iron throne while an ancient threat stirs in the north; ruthless, intricate epic fantasy.
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Mistborn: The Final Empire
A street thief joins a crew plotting to overthrow an immortal god-emperor, using a brilliantly worked magic of metals.
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The Name of the Wind
A legendary figure tells the story of his own rise from orphan to arcanist; lyrical, immersive and beloved.
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9
Piranesi
A man lives alone in an endless house of statues and tides; a short, strange, haunting puzzle of a novel.
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10
The Return of the King
THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and continued in The Two Towers, is the third and final part of J. R. R. Tolkien