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- Ready Player One
series3 books2011
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Ernest Cline's Ready Player One (2011) is set in a near-future dystopia where much of humanity escapes into the OASIS, a vast virtual-reality universe, and follows teenager Wade Watts as he chases an Easter egg hidden by the OASIS's late creator in a puzzle-based hunt worth a fortune. The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.
- Website of the Warped Wizard
Eric A. Kimmelstandalone novel2001
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Jess and her friend Matthew find themselves drawn into a computer game in which they must defeat an evil wizard in order to save a friendly centaur, an elf, as well as King Arthur and some of his companions.
- Archemi Online Chronicles
series3 books2018
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- Myth Adventures
series33 books1978
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MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own.
- Rasmussem Corporation Games
series3 books1991
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Vivian Vande Velde's Rasmussem Corporation Games books each drop a different protagonist into a malfunctioning virtual-reality game built by the fictional Rasmussem company, where the usual escape routes stop working and the stakes turn unexpectedly real. User Unfriendly, Heir Apparent, and Deadly Pink share the same premise and company rather than a continuing cast or plot. Vande Velde, an American children's and YA author, wrote the three books more than two decades apart.
- Spellsinger
series9 books1983
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Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series follows Jon-Tom, a UCLA law student pulled into a fantasy world by the wizard Clothahump, where he discovers he can cast spells by singing along with his guitar. That world is populated almost entirely by anthropomorphic animals -- otters, rabbits, turtles -- with humans a rare minority, and across eight books published between 1983 and 2004, Jon-Tom and his companions repeatedly clash with the insectoid Plated Folk raiding the western territories.
- Enchanted Forest
series7 books1985
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Patricia Collins Wrede is an American author of fantasy literature. She is known for her Enchanted Forest Chronicles series for young adults, which was voted number 84 in NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels list.
- Tales of Magic
series7 books1954
completed
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Tales of Magic collects Edward Eager's seven loosely connected children's novels about ordinary kids who stumble into magic in everyday American settings, starting with Half Magic, in which four siblings find a coin that grants exactly half of any wish. Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers. Eager wrote them as a direct homage to E. Nesbit, sometimes having his own child characters read her books.
- The Faraway Tree
series16 books1939
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The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton. The titles in the series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951).
- Самый странный нуб / The Weirdest Noob
series3 books2014
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- Little Wooden Horse
series3 books1938
completed
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Ursula Moray Williams's Little Wooden Horse books follow a toymaker's wooden horse who sets out to earn money for his aging, poverty-stricken maker, enduring a string of owners and hardships along the way. The character's world later crosses over with Williams's other well-known creation in The Further Adventures of Gobbolino and the Little Wooden Horse, pairing the horse with the witch's cat from her separate Gobbolino books. Both are mid-century British children's stories built around a stoic animal hero's misfortunes.
- Spearwielder's Tales
series3 books1993
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R. A. Salvatore's trilogy follows Gary Leger, bored with life after college, who wanders into the woods behind his house and stumbles into a fantasy world populated by elves, dwarves, witches, and dragons, and finds himself mistaken for the realm's long-lost hero. The Woods Out Back, The Dragon's Dagger, and Dragonslayer's Return follow Gary as he's pulled back into that world again and again, growing into the role thrust on him.
- Minecraft
universe207 books2014
Start hereThe Island · Start here
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The sun is going down, and you have no walls. Somewhere in the dark a green thing is walking toward you on four stubby legs, and it does not stop and it does not speak, and when it reaches you it will hiss. So you dig. You punch wood from a tree, shape it into planks, stack the planks into a box just big enough to outlast the night — and in the morning the world is yours again, cubic and endless and waiting to be reshaped one block at a time. This is the Overworld: squared-off oceans, blocky hills, deep glittering mines, and beyond them the burning Nether and the floating void of the End, where everything can be broken down and built back into something else. The books that grow from it come in two very different sizes. On one shelf sits Mojang's own line — standalone novels like Max Brooks' tale of a castaway learning the island's rules the hard way, the monster-hunting Mob Squad, the illustrated Woodsword Chronicles, and rack on rack of official handbooks. Against it surges a whole cottage industry of unofficial "Minecrafter" fiction for young readers: the diary-comic misadventures of Diary of a Minecraft Zombie and The Creeper Diaries, Winter Morgan's brisk quest tales, and Mark Cheverton's Gameknight999 saga of a boy trapped inside the game. No single timeline binds them; each series keeps its own. What holds it together is not a plot but a place, and a feeling — the small triumph of surviving one more night, the itch to see past the next ridge, the freedom to build the thing you pictured. Newcomers wanting a story with a spine should start with Max Brooks' The Island, self-contained and quietly clever; younger readers chasing laughs can drop into Diary of a Minecraft Zombie or Woodsword Chronicles at book one. Beyond that, pick a mine and start digging.
