Assistant to the Villain
★★★☆☆
A viral tik-tok series that grew into a book series, it is an office comedy set in a swords-and-sorcery world with anachronisms galore
Throne of Glass
★★☆☆☆
In a world where magic is dying, a young assassin is rescued from prison to be a champion in a tournament
The Last Unicorn
★★☆☆☆
When a unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind, she sets out on an epic journey to find out what happened to all the other unicorns
American Gods
★★★☆☆
Shadow Moon has recently been released from jail, and is hired as a bodyguard. He soon becomes embroiled in a titanic struggle between the "Old Gods" and "New Gods" and finds himself questioning the nature of belief in modern America.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
★★★★★
Young Dorothy Gale is swept by a tornado from Kansas to a magical land with wizards, witches and several marvelous creatures, but all she wants is to get back to Kansas...
Howl's Moving Castle
★★★★☆
Sophie Hatter has been cursed to be an old woman, and seeks out the fearsome wizard Howl to help her undo the curse.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
★★★★★
Alice falls into the rabbit-hole and has several adventures involving some very unusual characters
Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Woundn't Grow Up
★★★★☆
Peter Pan, and the little fairy Tinker Bell lead the Darling children to the magical world of Neverland
Neverwhere
★★★★★
Richard Mayhew stumbles into a world under the streets of London, a world filled with angels, monsters, monks, assassins, saints and soul-stealing beings which transcend definition.
City of Bones
★☆☆☆☆
A young girl accidentally steps into a world of magic and discovers a lot about herself and her family
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
★★★★☆
An absent minded engineer's reality comes crashing down, and he ropes in the mysterious detective Dirk Gently to make sense of it
Assassin’s Apprentice
★★★★★
A young boy is taken in by the king’s men and trained to be an assassin, where he uses his unique gifts and intelligence to achieve his goals
Good Omens
★★★★★
The end of times is upon us; the date for the apocalypse has been set, and the antichrist has been primed (sort of...). It’s up to one sympathetic pair, an angel and a demon, to calm things down and save the world.
A Christmas Carol
★★★★★
A classic which has lent so much to our everyday parlance, and likely started the very concept of “Christmas Spirit”
Poor Things
★★★★☆
A retelling of the Frankenstein mythos, with the beautiful young Bella Baxter brought back to life with the brain of an infant
The Colour of Magic
★★★★★
The first in his incredible Discworld series, the story tells of the adventures of a tourist who comes to Ankh-Morpork to “see the world”.