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Books like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Loved The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from children's, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943 · Children's

    A pilot meets a small prince from another planet; a deceptively simple fable for all ages.

  2. 2

    Charlotte's Web

    E.B. White · 1952 · Children's

    A pig, a clever spider and a barnyard friendship that beats death; the gentle classic about loyalty.

  3. 3

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    J.K. Rowling · 1997 · Children's

    An orphan learns he is a wizard and finds a home at a school of magic; the book that made a generation read.

  4. 4

    The Wouldbegoods

    Edith Nesbit · 1901 · Children's

    Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop - eh, what?'

  5. 5

    The Wind in the Willows

    Kenneth Grahame · 1908 · Children's

    Mole, Rat, Badger and the incorrigible Toad on the riverbank; a cosy, lyrical classic.

  6. 6

    Wulf the Saxon

    G. A. Henty · 1894 · Children's

    In 11th-century Britain, a young thane named Wulf and his best friend, Beorn, fight bravely for their Saxon king, capturing castles, rescuing shipwrecked survivors, repelling Viking invaders, and figh

  7. 7

    Montezuma's daughter

    H. Rider Haggard · 1893 · Children's

    Fictionalized story of the first interactions between Native Americans and European explorers.

  8. 8

    The Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911 · Children's

    A sour orphan brings a hidden garden, and herself, back to life; a quietly healing classic.

  9. 9

    Chronicles of Avonlea

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1912 · Children's

    Twelve stories of adventure and love set in the home town of Anne of Green Gables.

  10. 10

    Otto of the Silver Hand

    Howard Pyle · 1888 · Children's

    A courageous boy in the Middle Ages brings an end to the feud between two powerful robber barons.

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