Patroclus and Achilles from boyhood to Troy; Miller's Orange Prize.
Bridge crews, highstorms and Shardblades on Roshar; the Stormlight Archive begins at 1,000 pages.
The witch of the Odyssey tells her own story; Madeline Miller.
The Monkey King escorts a monk to India in a hundred chapters; the Chinese classic behind every Goku.
Kvothe tells his own legend from behind an inn counter; the third book is still not out.
Goldman's "good parts version" of a book that never existed; Westley, Buttercup and Inigo.
A con artist in a Venice of alchemy and sharks; Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards.
A world of periodic apocalypses and the people who can quell earthquakes; three consecutive Hugos.
Moomintroll and his mother search for father in the first Moomin book; Tove Jansson's valley begins.
A girl against the grey men who steal people's time; Ende's fable about hurry.
Rand al Thor leaves the Two Rivers with an Aes Sedai; the Wheel of Time begins its fourteen books.
A torturer, a barbarian and a vain officer in Abercrombie's First Law; grimdark begins.
A heist crew of allomancers against the immortal Lord Ruler; Sanderson's magic system.
Bastian reads a book and ends up inside Fantastica; Ende in red and green ink.
A standalone Geralt adventure set between the short stories, with his swords stolen.
Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.
Old gods versus new in a road trip across America; Gaiman's big one.
Four children through a wardrobe into Narnia, and Aslan on the Stone Table.
Two magicians in the England of the Napoleonic wars, with footnotes; Clarke's thousand pages.
An angel and a demon try to stop the Apocalypse in Tadfield; Pratchett and Gaiman.
How Narnia was made and where the lamp-post came from; the prequel.
The land of the dead and the Fall retold; the trilogy ends.
The Ankh-Morpork Night Watch, a dragon and Sam Vimes; the first Watch book.
An ape, a donkey in a lion skin and the end of Narnia.
A boy and a talking horse flee Calormen across the desert; the Narnia book without the Pevensies.
Daenerys in Meereen, Tyrion on a boat and Jon at the Wall; the last published volume, from 2011.
The Pevensies return a thousand Narnian years later to a usurped throne.
A man alone in an infinite house of statues and tides; Susanna Clarke's second novel.
Death takes an apprentice; the Discworld finds its voice.
Winter is coming, Ned Stark rides south and the Wall; the first of A Song of Ice and Fire.
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