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• Brisingr (Inheritance Cycle)

  Christopher Paolini

  
  
   

• Nation

  Terry Pratchett

  
  
   

• The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy)

  Peter F. Hamilton

  
  
   

• Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox: 6 (Artemis Fowl)

  Eoin Colfer

  
  
   

• Midnight's Daughter

  Karen Chance

  
  
   

• Superior Saturday (The Keys to the Kingdom)

  Garth Nix

  
  
   

• Making Money (Discworld)

  Terry Pratchett

  
  
   

• Dark Curse (Dark Carpathian Series) (Dark Carpathian Series)

  Christine Feehan

  
  
   

• The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara)

  Terry Brooks

  
  
   

• The Dreaming Void (Void Trilogy)

  Peter F. Hamilton

  
  
   

• Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley

  
  
   

• Wrath of a Mad God (Darkwar)

  Raymond E. Feist

  
  
   

• The Ashes of Worlds (Saga of Seven Suns 7)

  Kevin J. Anderson

  
  
   

• Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant)

  Derek Landy

  
  
   

• The Painted Man (Demon Trilogy 1)

  Peter V. Brett

  
  
   

• Torchwood: Almost Perfect (Torchwood)

  James Goss

  
  
   

• His Dark Materials Boxed set (His Dark Materials)

  Philip Pullman

  
  
   

• One Silent Night (Dark Hunter) (Dark Hunter)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  
  
   

• The Hobbit

  J.R.R. Tolkien

  
  Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry-footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.

  This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one.

  
   

• The Magic Faraway Tree

  Enid Blyton