Bastian reads a book and ends up inside Fantastica; Ende in red and green ink.
The witch of the Odyssey tells her own story; Madeline Miller.
Goldman's "good parts version" of a book that never existed; Westley, Buttercup and Inigo.
A heist crew of allomancers against the immortal Lord Ruler; Sanderson's magic system.
The land of the dead and the Fall retold; the trilogy ends.
An angel and a demon try to stop the Apocalypse in Tadfield; Pratchett and Gaiman.
Old gods versus new in a road trip across America; Gaiman's big one.
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.
Death takes an apprentice; the Discworld finds its voice.
A god reduced to a tortoise and the one boy who believes; the Discworld book to start with.
Winter is coming, Ned Stark rides south and the Wall; the first of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Jill and Eustace underground to free a prince from a green witch.
The Pevensies return a thousand Narnian years later to a usurped throne.
Cersei rules, Brienne searches and half the cast is elsewhere.
Will Parry, a knife that cuts between worlds and Cittagazze.
Five kings, a red comet and the Battle of the Blackwater.
A man alone in an infinite house of statues and tides; Susanna Clarke's second novel.
Lyra, her daemon and armoured bears in an Oxford that is not ours; His Dark Materials begins.
Two magicians in the England of the Napoleonic wars, with footnotes; Clarke's thousand pages.
The Red Wedding and the Purple Wedding; the best of the series.
Daenerys in Meereen, Tyrion on a boat and Jon at the Wall; the last published volume, from 2011.
Four children through a wardrobe into Narnia, and Aslan on the Stone Table.
Eustace turned into a dragon and the sea to the end of the world.
How Narnia was made and where the lamp-post came from; the prequel.
The Ankh-Morpork Night Watch, a dragon and Sam Vimes; the first Watch book.
A wooden puppet who lies, the Fox and the Cat and the belly of the shark; darker than Disney.
Dorothy, the yellow brick road and a wizard who is a fraud; the American fairy tale.
The saga proper begins: Ciri trains at Kaer Morhen while the kingdoms prepare for war.
Geralt's company forms on the road south: Dandelion, Milva, Cahir, Regis and Zoltan.
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