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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Silmarillion
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 135,673 ratings
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The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 393,620 ratings
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 949,137 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 328,911 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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The Arabian Nights
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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Beowulf
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The Iliad
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The Odyssey
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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The Princess Bride
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,609,700 ratings
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