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A quest can start with a knock at the door, a dead sailor's map, or a polished blue stone found in a mountain valley. In «The Hobbit» and Treasure Island, ordinary people are pulled into journeys much larger than themselves, and the pull comes from the company they keep and the places the road takes them. Pick these up when you want momentum, strange companions, and the sense that the world is wider than the one you woke up in.

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A simple morning in the quiet countryside arrives with a visitor who promises a reckoning.

By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by. Gandalf! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale. Tales and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went, in the most extraordinary fashion. He had not been down that way under The Hill for ages and ages, not since his friend the Old Took died, in fact, and the hobbits had almost forgotten what he looked like.
Excerpt from The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey 1934. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

  7. Eragon

    Christopher Paolini, 2001

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

  16. Missing You

    Harlan Coben, 2014

    A New York detective opens a dating site and finds the face of the fiancé who vanished eighteen years ago—a cold case that may not be cold.

  18. South

    Ernest Shackleton, 1919

    A first-hand account of a ship crushed in Antarctic ice and a crew that must improvise its way home, told in the plain, dry voice of the man responsible for them.

  23. Beowulf

    Beowulf poet, 1000

    A hall under nightly siege, a stranger who volunteers to face the thing in the dark, and a poet who makes boasting, grief and fate sound like weather. The oldest English epic.

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  1. The story we invent to keep friends from seeing what we are.

    Now, my three friends could hardly fail to notice that I disappeared once a month. I made up all sorts of stories. I told them my mother was ill, and that I had to go home to see her... I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course, they, like you, Hermione, worked out the truth...

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · J. K. Rowling

  2. Why a blank diary can feel like a friend you've half-forgotten.

    Harry couldn’t explain, even to himself, why he didn’t just throw Riddle’s diary away. The fact was that even though he knew the diary was blank, he kept absent-mindedly picking it up and turning the pages, as though it was a story he wanted to finish. And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though Riddle was a friend he’d had when he was very small, and half-forgotten. But this was absurd. He’d never had friends before Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that.

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets · J. K. Rowling

  3. The difference between being someone's crush and being seen.

    It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don’t like, I’ll tell them.

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower · Stephen Chbosky

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