Books like 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.
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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.
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.
Kings of the Wyld
Clay Cooper, once of Saga, the most famous band of mercenaries in the land, is living quietly when his old frontman Golden Gabe asks him to get the band back together and cross a monster-filled wild to rescue Gabe's daughter from a besieged city.
The Tale of Despereaux
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.
Peter Pan
Three Bloomsbury children are flown out their nursery window by a boy who will not grow up, into an island where mothers are a rumour and the pirates and the lost boys keep taking turns being the villain.
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.
The Princess Bride
A father reads his son the 'good parts' of an imaginary Florinese classic, and the framing and the fencing and the Sicilian and the six-fingered man turn out to be the most quoted comic fantasy in English.
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.
Graceling
Katsa was born with a Grace for killing, and her uncle the king uses her to frighten his enemies, until she meets Po, a foreign prince searching for his kidnapped grandfather, and begins to choose her own fights.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Yumi, raised to summon spirits by stacking stones, and Painter, a young man who hunts nightmares with his brush in a city of endless night, wake to find their lives bound together across two worlds.
Nettle & Bone
Marra, the quiet, overlooked third princess, decides to kill the prince who has married her sisters, and sets out with a dust-wife, a disgraced knight and a dog made of bones.
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.