Read A Wizard of Earthsea

An envoy on a planet where people have no fixed sex; Le Guin's thought experiment.

A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet; Le Guin's ambiguous utopia.

A city whose happiness depends on one child kept in a cellar, and the few citizens who leave rather than accept the terms.

Tiffany Aching, a frying pan and the Nac Mac Feegle against the Queen of the Fairies.

Tiffany goes to learn witchcraft and something invisible follows her.

Salinger's restless coming-of-age classic (1951).

Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.