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Fantasy
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
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Books for Different Reading Moods
Comfort, escape and momentum — books chosen for how you want to feel, not the genre shelf they sit on.
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Mood is a better filter than genre most evenings. This list gathers the titles we suggest when someone tells us what kind of reading week they are having.
Young Adult
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old learns he is a wizard, and a generation learned to read on it.
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Fantasy
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
A circus arrives without warning, opens at nightfall, and hosts a duel neither magician chose.
Fiction
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
A shepherd leaves Andalusia for the pyramids, following a dream he is told to trust.
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Romance
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
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