adventure + fantasy

56 books tagged both “adventure” and “fantasy”.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 1900

Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.

3,297-word summary · 15 min read

Watership Down

Richard Adams · 1972

Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.

2,550-word summary · 11 min read

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 2001

Twelve-year-old crime heir Artemis Fowl kidnaps fairy officer Holly Short for gold, triggering a siege at Fowl Manor with time-stops, trolls, and a shifting…

2,692-word summary · 12 min read

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman · 1996

Richard Mayhew helps a bleeding girl in London and slips into London Below, a hidden city of killers, bargains and angels.

2,689-word summary · 12 min read

The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan · 1990

Farm boys flee Trollocs with Moiraine and Lan, split at Shadar Logoth, and trek to the Eye in the Blight.

2,454-word summary · 11 min read

The Magician's Nephew

C. S. Lewis · 1955

C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing creation, and the apple…

2,528-word summary · 11 min read

City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare · 2008

Clary risks the Clave trial while Valentine raises demons and Jace pulls away in New York.

4,684-word summary · 21 min read