Genre :: Fantasy (92 books)

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  #377

  The Phantom Tollbooth

  by Norton Juster

  (14 Reviews)

  55 Points

  "There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always."

  

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  #379

  The House of the Spirits

  by Isabel Allende

  (4 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Barrabás came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy."

  

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  #382

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  by L. Frank Baum

  (10 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife."

  

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  #383

  At Swim-Two-Birds

  by Flann O'Brien

  (2 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind my eyes and face assuming a vacant and..."

  

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  #385

  Dealing with Dragons

  by Patricia C. Wrede

  (3 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable. The climate was unremarkable. The knights kept..."

  

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  #388

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  (6 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the..."

  

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  #391

  Matilda

  by Roald Dahl

  (13 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers."

  

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  #400

  Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  by Haruki Murakami

  (5 Reviews)

  50 Points

  "The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent."

  

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  #415

  The Faraway Tree Stories

  by Enid Blyton

  (3 Reviews)

  46 Points

  

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  #422

  The Shadow of the Wind

  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  (7 Reviews)

  45 Points

  "I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.Todavia recuerdo aquel amanecer en que mi padre me llevo por primera vez a visitar el Cementerio de..."

  

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