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If The Fellowship of the Ring stayed with you, these share its feel: wonder, friendship and power. Each comes with a real page, so you can tell in a minute.

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  1. 1.Eragon

    Christopher Paolini, 2001

    Also wonder and power. A teenage hunter in a hard mountain valley finds a polished blue stone that pulls him into a world of Riders, magic and empire.

    Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered, one may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen. Of the affairs of love, my only advice is to be honest. That’s your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
    Excerpt from Eragon, Christopher Paolini, Knopf Books for Young Readers 2001. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  2. 2.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

    J. K. Rowling, 2007

    Also friendship and dread. A fugitive year spent hunting the pieces of a divided soul, while the wizarding world chooses sides and every friendship is tested.

    Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same; Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends...friends...friends...friends... Harry felt a great rush of affection for Luna.
    Excerpt from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling, Pottermore Publishing 2007. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  3. 3.Dune

    Frank Herbert, 1965

    Also power and freedom. A desert planet, a spice that lets navigators fold space, and a boy being trained into a messiah he never asked to be.

    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
    Excerpt from Dune, Frank Herbert, Del Rey 1965. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  4. 4.A Wizard of Earthsea

    Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968

    Also power and wonder. A young goatherd goes to a school for wizards and learns that magic means names, balance, and limits before it means power.

    You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
    Excerpt from A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin, HarperCollins 1968. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  5. 5.The Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911

    Also wonder and hope. A sour child, a locked garden and a boy who believes he is dying: a story about what attention can grow.

    The sun was shining inside the four walls and the high arch of blue sky over this particular piece of Misselthwaite seemed even more brilliant and soft than it was over the moor. The robin flew down from his treetop and hopped about or flew after her from one bush to another. He chirped a good deal and had a very busy air, as if he were showing her things. Everything was strange and silent and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all. All that troubled her was her wish that she knew whether all the roses were dead, or if perhaps some of them had lived and might put out leaves and buds as the weather got warmer. She did not want it to be a quite dead garden.
  6. 6.The Giver

    Lois Lowry, 1993

    Also dread and freedom. A boy in a perfectly ordered community is chosen to hold its memories—and discovers what that order costs.

    NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that finally message, as if the Speaker found it amusing; and Jonas had smiled a little, though he knew what a grim statement it had been. For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
    Excerpt from The Giver, Lois Lowry, Listening Library 1993. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals
  7. 10.Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Matt Dinniman, 2020

    Also freedom and wonder. Earth is repurposed as a reality-TV dungeon crawl, and the only contestant with a cat can tell the apocalypse is being narrated to him in the language of a mineral rights form.

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