The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
★★★★★
Young Dorothy Gale is swept by a tornado from Kansas to a magical land with wizards, witches and several marvelous creatures, but all she wants is to get back to Kansas...
Howl's Moving Castle
★★★★☆
Sophie Hatter has been cursed to be an old woman, and seeks out the fearsome wizard Howl to help her undo the curse.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
★★★★★
Alice falls into the rabbit-hole and has several adventures involving some very unusual characters
Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Woundn't Grow Up
★★★★☆
Peter Pan, and the little fairy Tinker Bell lead the Darling children to the magical world of Neverland
Neverwhere
★★★★★
Richard Mayhew stumbles into a world under the streets of London, a world filled with angels, monsters, monks, assassins, saints and soul-stealing beings which transcend definition.
City of Bones
★☆☆☆☆
A young girl accidentally steps into a world of magic and discovers a lot about herself and her family
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
★★★★☆
An absent minded engineer's reality comes crashing down, and he ropes in the mysterious detective Dirk Gently to make sense of it
Assassin’s Apprentice
★★★★★
A young boy is taken in by the king’s men and trained to be an assassin, where he uses his unique gifts and intelligence to achieve his goals
Good Omens
★★★★★
The end of times is upon us; the date for the apocalypse has been set, and the antichrist has been primed (sort of...). It’s up to one sympathetic pair, an angel and a demon, to calm things down and save the world.
A Christmas Carol
★★★★★
A classic which has lent so much to our everyday parlance, and likely started the very concept of “Christmas Spirit”
Poor Things
★★★★☆
A retelling of the Frankenstein mythos, with the beautiful young Bella Baxter brought back to life with the brain of an infant
The Colour of Magic
★★★★★
The first in his incredible Discworld series, the story tells of the adventures of a tourist who comes to Ankh-Morpork to “see the world”.
Interview With The Vampire
★★★★☆
The vampire Louis recounts his life story, and his journey to find meaning and connection in his immortal existence
The Graveyard Book
★★★★★
Noboday 'Bod' Owens lives in the graveyard, and has done so most of his life. His parents are ghosts, his guardian straddles the world of the living and the dead, and his best friend is a witch. But, the real danger for Bod are the sinister forces on his trail in the world of the living...
A Wrinkle in Time
★☆☆☆☆
Not entirely sure which genre to slot this book into, but that's OK, since it would be embarrassing for that genre to count this book in its ilk.
The Wizard of Earthsea
★★★★★
The origin story of sparrowhawk, the greatest wizard of Earthsea. As the young boy learns to be a wizard, his pride and ego causes him to take some mis-steps; and as a young man, he uses his skill and resourcefulness to rectify those mis-steps