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Andrew Seiple · 2017 · US · fantasy
★ 4.29 Goodreads · 3,247 ratings

A teddy bear made by a magical toymaker wakes up in a world of game-like levels and classes, and sets out to protect the little girl who owns him.

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He Who Fights with Monsters

Shirtaloon · 2021 · Australia 99% match ★ 4.32 Goodreads · 55,109 ratings
shares: litrpg, power progression, adventure · speculative, easy read

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.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Fuse · 2014 · Japan 99% match ★ 4.34 Goodreads · 4,605 ratings
shares: litrpg, power progression, found family · speculative, easy read

Satoru Mikami, a thirty-seven-year-old Tokyo office worker, is stabbed and reborn in a fantasy world as a slime, with an unusual knack for absorbing things.

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

Jessica Townsend · 2017 · US 98% match ★ 4.31 Goodreads · 79,667 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Nevermoor
shares: children, found family, whimsical · speculative, easy read

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.

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill · 2016 · US 97% match ★ 4.11 Goodreads · 120,606 ratings
shares: found family, children, whimsical · speculative, warm

Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby in the forest for the witch they fear, and Xan, the kindly witch who actually rescues the babies, accidentally feeds one of them moonlight and fills her with magic.

Sufficiently Advanced Magic

Andrew Rowe · 2017 · US 96% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 28,377 ratings
shares: litrpg, power progression, series starter · speculative, earnest

Corin Cadence enters the spire, a tower whose trials grant magical powers to those who pass, hoping to find his brother, who went in five years ago and never came out.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 1900 · US 95% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 527,159 ratings
Book 1 of 14 in Oz
shares: children, whimsical, adventure · speculative, easy read

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.

Solo Leveling

Chugong · 2014 · South Korea 94% match ★ 4.38 Goodreads · 11,907 ratings
shares: litrpg, power progression, series starter · speculative, easy read

In a world where gates to monster-filled dungeons have opened, Sung Jinwoo, the weakest of the hunters, survives a deadly dungeon and finds he can level up alone.

The Neverending Story

Michael Ende · 1979 · Germany 94% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 228,504 ratings
shares: children, whimsical · speculative, earnest

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.

Aru Shah and the End of Time

Roshani Chokshi · 2018 · US 93% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 29,865 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Pandava
shares: children, whimsical, adventure · easy read, speculative

Aru Shah, twelve, who lives in a museum of Indian art in Atlanta and tells a lot of lies, lights a cursed lamp to prove a point and wakes the Sleeper, a demon who will bring the end of time.

The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo · 2003 · US 93% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 219,844 ratings
shares: children, whimsical, tender · easy read, speculative

Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse with enormous ears who loves music, stories and a human princess named Pea, is banished to the castle dungeon for breaking the rules, and becomes the unlikely hero of a tale involving a vengeful rat and a servant girl.

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart · 2007 · US 93% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 180,442 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Mysterious Benedict Society
shares: children, found family, adventure · easy read, clear-cut

Four gifted children who answer a newspaper ad for puzzle-solvers are recruited by the eccentric Mr. Benedict and sent undercover into an island school where hidden messages are being broadcast into people's minds.

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937 · UK 92% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads
shares: whimsical, adventure · speculative, easy read

A comfort-loving hobbit is recruited by a wizard and thirteen dwarves to steal treasure from a dragon, and the journey transforms him utterly.