Books where MC goes into another world and doesn't return

[samu]

Hello, lately I've been looking for books where the mc goes to another world. Kind of like in the Chronicles of Narnia, except the mc never returns to their old world.(although they don't have to stay there, they just need to spend a veeeerry large portion of the book in that world.)
Adventure/Romance/YA is always welcome. Please & thank you. c:

[Elizabeth]

The Iron King

[Liralen]

Charmed Life (not the MC who switches worlds)
Antithesis

[Lee Anne]

So it's okay if return to their old world, or not, as long as it happens at the end?


The Paradise War (start of a trilogy) Oxford students get sucked into the Celtic otherworld. (Written by a Christian author (I think) but not "christian fiction" if that makes sense)

Once a Princess Humorous take on the secret heritage trope--a "normal" girl/woman finds out her mom married the prince of another world, and they've been hiding in exile. Very funny.

Okay, these are Christian Fiction, but match your criteria:
Black: The Birth of Evil Whole series about one character and his live(s) split between this world and another.(start of a trilogy)
Arena

[samu]

^Yes, it's ok if it happens in the end.

Thank you for the recommendations I'll check them out.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

The Worm Ouroboros.

[Halah]

I read this awhile ago, Smudges Mark. A boy and girl find another world that they are somehow connected to. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Lord Foul's Bane (series)
When the Changewinds Blow (series)

[Michele]

The Summer Tree and its two sequels - five main characters are called out of our world into the world of Fionavar. Top-notch writing and an epic fantasy.

Also The Magicians and The Magician King by Lev Grossman.

[Pamela]

The Family Tradeand other books in the series

The Many-Coloured Landand other books in the series. (In this series, the characters go back in time to a period just after the dinosaurs, and what they find is so unusual that it's really another world.)

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Quag Keep and it's follow up Return to Quag Keep.

The Wiz Biz series is another one.

[Michele]

Oh, also The Maker of Universes - man gets out of our world into another one. And another one. And another one... It's the first in the World of Tiers series, so if you like it there are several more.

[bookworm]

Stephen King The Dark Tower

[Scott]

The Dragon and the George and the rest of the Dragon Knight series by Gordon R. Dickson

[Elizabeth]

Can't remember if he stays but pretty sure he did. It's been since like middle school when I read it, and I'm in college now but: Faerie Wars

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Wicked as They Come

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Here Abide Monsters is another one for you Whimsical

[Anna]

this one The Star Kings

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Really Unusual Bad Boys for a "beach read" type book. This is not a YA book, btw.

[samu]

Wow, thank you all for the suggestions! March Break is finally here so it's time to get reading.

[Annie]

Wildest Dreams

I love this book, but it's not a YA book.

[S.F.]

You could try Run To Earth It has the mc leave this world and go to another realm. It's YA. I apologise if suggesting your own book is not permitted.

[Michele]

Her Majesty's Wizard by Christopher Stasheff is fun.

[Madison]

Between the Lines there is a character that goes to another world at the very end, but other then that, I can't give much else without completely spoiling the entire story. It's a YA book that's mostly romance, but there is a tiny bit of fantasy evolved. It's one of my favourite stories though! :)

[Michele]

Whimsical wrote: "Wow, thank you all for the suggestions! March Break is finally here so it's time to get reading."

Come back and tell us what you thought :)

[Lou]

Small Eternities

[Rainbowheart]

You should definitely read The Marbury Lens and Passenger by Andrew Smith.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Doomfarers of Coramonde and there is a follow up to it The Starfollowers of Coramonde

[Amy]

Somewhere In Time and, along a similar theme but for YA's, Time at the Top.

[SarahBeth]

The Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K Host. The first book in the trilogy is Stray. Also, if you can find a copy, Heroes of Zara Keep by Guy Gregory.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Dying Bites another series where the MC goes to another world. as of the last one I read (book 4) she was still stuck there. (My TBR pile is too big, it's taking over my house. Help, help, I'm being eaten by a giant book pil. . . .)

[Melissa]

A couple of Barbara Hambly's series from the 80's/90's were like this:
The Darwath series, book 1 is The Time of the Dark ;
The Windrose Chronicles, book 1 is The Silent Tower ;

(Hambly's Sun-Cross duology was kind of the reverse...the MC from the 'fantasy world' comes to our world, well, our world of the past, but that actually only happened in the second book now that I think of it. The first book is The Rainbow Abyss).

Terry Brook's Landover series, book 1 is Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold

The House Between The Worlds by Marion Zimmer Bradley is another oldie.

The Woods Out Back by R. A. Salvatore.

Virtual Mode, book 1 of the Mode series by Piers Anthony.

[Paul]

Un Lun Dun would be a YA book like this.

[Chrissy]

Seer's Hope

[Rafi]

Changeling, and its sequel Madwand by Roger Zelazney. A young man finds out he is a magician in another world.

[Nicole]

Akarnae and the rest of the Medoran Chronicles are a great series! This series is described as Harry Potter meets X-men and Chronicles of Narnia. Akarnae is a bit slow and is mainly there to set the scene and characters but the rest of the series is absolutely the best. The MC never goes back to her world but nothing is lost from that.

[Gillian]

The Twelve Kingdoms series by Fuyumi Ono. The first book is The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow.

[MJ]

Fantasy? Soulbound is elves. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

[CraftyChara]

I love this thread! You're right a lot of MCs go back home.

Hope that you like Isakai
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 1
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, Vol. 1
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel) Vol. 8
Reincarnated as the Last of my Kind, Vol. 1

[CraftyChara]

Wildest Dreams
Fair Coin
Divine By Mistake
Waterfall

[Pamela]

Man from Mundania