Books like A Darker Shade of Magic
Kell, one of the last magicians who can travel between parallel Londons, Grey, Red, White and long-dead Black, smuggles objects between them, until a dangerous artefact and a thief named Lila Bard draw him into a deadly plot.
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Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
A grieving Chicago lawyer buys a magic kingdom from a department-store catalogue and discovers his new realm is broke, falling apart, and in need of a real king.
Neverwhere
Richard Mayhew, an ordinary young Londoner, helps an injured girl he finds on the pavement and falls out of his own life into London Below, a dark, magical city of people who slipped through the cracks.
Unsouled
A boy born without the ability to use his world's magic system sets out to prove that willpower can overcome any limitation.
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Christopher Chant, a lonely boy in a well-off family, can walk in his dreams into other worlds, and his charming uncle Ralph starts asking him to fetch things from them.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Kansas farm girl and her dog are carried by a cyclone to a country of witches and talking scarecrows and asked to walk a yellow road to a wizard who may be able to send her home.
He Who Fights with Monsters
Jason Asano, an Australian office worker, wakes up in a magical world with a game-like system of powers, the gifts of a dark mage and a talent for annoying everyone he meets.
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A cursed girl doomed to die on her eleventh birthday is whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must pass four dangerous trials to join its most prestigious society.
Foundryside
A thief in a city of magical industry discovers that the technology everyone depends on has a terrifying sentient origin.
Stardust
In Victorian England, young Tristran Thorn promises to bring the girl he loves a fallen star, and crosses the wall from his village into the land of Faerie, where the star turns out to be a young woman.
Magician
Pug, an orphaned kitchen boy at the castle of Crydee, is apprenticed to the magician Kulgan just as invaders from another world begin coming through a rift in space, and the war that follows carries him and his friend Tomas far from home.
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
A man wakes in a field in what looks like medieval England with no memory and a guidebook for travellers, and tries to work out who he is before the people chasing him catch up.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four children evacuated to a country house find a wardrobe that opens into a snow-bound country held in perpetual winter by a witch, and a Christ-haunted lion who is coming back to undo her.