What book truly transports you to another world? Need an escape.
What book truly transports you to another world? Need an escape.
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What book truly transports you to another world? Need an escape.
The Vampire Chronicles
That is for sure
I love how she describes what they see, and you feel like you’re there.
Harry Potter
Don’t hate me but i tried Harry Potter awhile ago and I didn’t love it. Maybe I should try it again.
@Stephanie it’s not for everyone so do be disappointed
may be you watched the movie adoption of the novel first !? @Tammy
@Rumsha I did
The Belgariad. David Eddings. Totally fantastic escapism. Likeable characters. Wondrous plot. And just so readable…I must have read these books 30 to 40 times. Since I was 13 to now. I was 13 in 1985. I’ll let you do the maths lol ??
The great alone
The Black Witch by Laurie Forest
Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English by Biber
Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, and the Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane. Something about these books always sets me at ease when I need to change my perspective. They may be children’s stories, but they’re also very grown-up.
Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy
A classic!!
Try Justin Cronin’s “The Passage” trilogy. Amazing spin on the vampire and zombie apocalypse genre, which spans centuries. It’s man-made, so not supernatural and the characters and situations are deep and engrossing.
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington . . . not for the faint of heart though . . .
https://youtu.be/FtXvEuHkJLE because the first lines are “Rachel hated boys” then everything gets tricky!
The Great Gatsby
Literally…Transcendence by Shay Savage. Great book!!
I really liked that one!
Harry Potter.
The Bear and the Nightingale.
Like edgy, a bit dark? Try Neil Gaiman. He’s from England. Quite a talent.
Me too but for kids https://youtu.be/dm9QeRypy28
Beauty and the beast lost in a book
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I bought that but haven’t read it yet
Lost Warrior part 1
The Lord of The Ring for sure
The dark elf trilogy by RA Salvatore
Shatter me!
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The Pern series by Ann McAffery!
The life of Pi
Love this thread
Outlander
The Dark Tower series. Pick one up and I am there.
Just finished Paris by the Book by Liam Callahan. Story a little uneven, but overall excellent book. Mom, dad, 2 daughters. Mom (booklover) + Dad (writer) dream of going to Paris. 1 day dad disappears. Mom moves family to Paris. Maybe she can find him. Great descriptions of life in Paris..owning a bookstore. How to be a single parent; in foreign city. She often thinks she sees him. Does she? Many sections drew me in deeply, page turning.
Took me to Paris & I side the bookshop.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Armande Gamache series by Louise Penny. Love the characters in Three Pines!
Stellar by Kevin Hollingsworth
Song of Ice and Fire, the Dark Tower series
Lost Boy by Christina
Christina Henry
That’s what Mirror World Publishing is all about, escapism fiction . http://www.mirror-world-publishing.myshopify.com/
Jack Finney “Time and Again” Edward Bellamy “Looking Back”.
“Time and Again” is excellent.
The Martian
Any book by Adriana Trigiani or Beatriz Williams or Kristin Hannah or Martha Hall Kelly……….
Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas
Yes! Or anything my SJM!
Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
So good!!! I’m dying for a movie to be made
Harry Potter
Harry Potter, Mistborn, Stormlight Archive, Mercy Thompson, and anything by Neil Gaiman.
The Glass Castle
Handmaid’s Tale
The Mists of Avalon
The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost by Rachel Friedman – it’s so good and truly took me away from real life while I was reading it.
Should mention that it took me to another continent, which is close enough for me to another world. ?
Child of Fortune, by Norman Spinrad.
Mine. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1483443825/
Widow 1881 by sara knoll dahmen
The psy-changling books by Nalini Singh or Sherrilyn Kenyon’s League series
Anne of Green Gables
Have you seen Anne with an E on Netflix?
I like the black dagger brotherhood and everytime I read it I’m transported to Caldwell NY
Yes yes yes
Outlander series… totally swept away!
Ready Player One
Harry potter
The Deverry series by Katherine Kerr.
T. L. Higley’s Seven Wonders series. Start with her book Fallen From Babel, which is the precursor to the series.
Was won over by The Thinking Womans Guide to Real Magic. It will definitely take you far away!
the night circus took me away from my reality lol
Try “The Observations” by Jane Harris.
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Also, the Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Lost Horizon