Books like Myst: The Book of Atrus
Raised by his grandmother in a desert fissure, young Atrus is claimed by his father Gehn, who takes him underground to the ruined city of D'ni to learn the art of writing books that open onto other worlds.
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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.
Fairy Tale
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Reade rescues his reclusive neighbour Howard Bowditch after a fall, and while caring for the old man and his ageing German shepherd, Radar, he learns that the locked shed in the backyard opens onto another world.
The Neverending Story
A bullied German schoolboy steals a book and reads himself into the empty country of Fantastica, where the Childlike Empress is dying because no one is still imagining her.
Inkheart
Meggie's father Mo, a bookbinder, can read characters out of books and into the world, and years ago he read a villain named Capricorn out of a novel called Inkheart, who now wants him back.
The Way of Kings
A soldier stripped of his rank and a scholar desperate to save her people bond over ancient magical armour as war engulfs a storm-ravaged world.
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.
Elantris
A prince discovers he can heal the mysterious disease destroying his kingdom's magic, but the cure demands a terrible price.
The Binding
Emmett Farmer is sent to apprentice with a bookbinder in a world where books are made from people's painful memories, which are then gone for good, and he finds one with his own name in it.
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.
Dawn of Wonder
A boy enters a legendary military academy where the training is brutal and the mysteries of an ancient power lie buried beneath.
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 Beast Player
Elin's mother cares for the giant water serpents that are the backbone of the kingdom's army, and when several die on her watch she is sentenced to death; Elin, alone, finds she can do what no one else can with the realm's beasts.