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If you liked Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift · 1726

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure, travel.

    A ship's surgeon meets tiny Lilliputians, giant Brobdingnagians, Laputa's projectors, and rational horses in Swift's 1726 satire.

  2. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    Jules Verne · 1870

    Because also by Jules Verne; shares tags: classics, adventure.

    A monster hunt finds Nemo submarine, and three captives tour seas they cannot leave.

  3. The War of the Worlds

    H.G. Wells · 1898

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    A Surrey writer watches Martians land in cylinders, march on London in tripods, and fall to Earth's smallest life.

  4. The Silver Chair

    C. S. Lewis · 1953 · Chronicles of Narnia #4

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.

  5. The Phantom Tollbooth

    Norton Juster · 1961

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.

  6. The Last Battle

    C.S. Lewis · 1956 · Chronicles of Narnia #7

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.

  7. Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe · 1719

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Shipwrecked near South America, Crusoe spends 28 years farming, building, praying, and facing who he becomes alone.

  8. Beowulf

    Unknown · 2026

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    An anonymous Old English epic in Heaney's Norton translation: Beowulf faces Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon across a lifetime of…

  9. The Three Musketeers

    Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · The d'Artagnan Romances #1

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.

  10. The Horse and His Boy

    C. S. Lewis · 1954 · Chronicles of Narnia #5

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.

  11. The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman · 2000 · His Dark Materials #3

    Because shares tags: adventure, classics.

    Lyra and Will cross worlds with amber spyglass to free ghosts and kill Authority.

  12. Peter Pan

    J.M. Barrie · 1911

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Wendy, John and Michael fly to Neverland with Peter, face Hook, and learn what growing up costs.

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