Books like Mort
Death takes on an apprentice, a gangly young man named Mort, and when Mort saves a princess who was supposed to die, reality starts to come apart around her.
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The Hobbit
A comfort-loving hobbit is recruited by a wizard and thirteen dwarves to steal treasure from a dragon, and the journey transforms him utterly.
A Dirty Job
Charlie Asher, a mild secondhand-store owner in San Francisco, becomes a widower and a single father on the same day, then discovers he has been drafted as a collector of souls.
Howl's Moving Castle
A young hatmaker cursed by a witch to be an old woman takes shelter in the walking castle of a vain young wizard whose demon is burning through a contract with his heart.
A Wizard of Earthsea
A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Twelve-year-old September, bored in Omaha, is carried off to Fairyland by the Green Wind and a Leopard, and soon finds herself on a quest against the tyrannical Marquess, with a library-loving dragon for company.
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Hart, a marshal who patrols a wild, magic-haunted borderland, and Mercy, who runs her family's undertaking business, can't stand each other, and neither knows that the anonymous friend each has been writing letters to is the other.
Assistant to the Villain
Evie Sage needs a job to support her family, so when she lands a position as assistant to the Villain, the kingdom of Rennedawn's most feared man, she tries to treat it like any office job, despite the dungeons and her very attractive boss.
The Last Unicorn
A unicorn who has lived alone in her lilac wood since the world was young hears that she may be the last of her kind, and leaves to find out what happened to the others.
Good Omens
An angel and a demon who've grown rather fond of Earth conspire to prevent the Apocalypse, in a comedy about the end of the world.
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Tress, a practical girl who collects cups from sailors on a rock in an ocean of deadly spores, sets out to rescue the young man she loves from the Sorceress, in a story told by a wry, meddling narrator.
Death with Interruptions
On New Year's Day in an unnamed country, death stops killing, and as the old fail to die, the funeral industry collapses and the church panics, until death returns with new rules.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Raised from the dead in the present day to fill in the missing years of the Gospels, Biff tells the story of growing up with his best friend Joshua and their travels east in search of what it means to be the Messiah.