Worlds to disappear into

Douglas Adams

Earth is demolished for a hyperspace bypass; the funniest book science fiction ever produced begins.

Rebecca Yarros

A brittle-boned scribe is forced into the dragon riders' war college, where the dragons incinerate the weak.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The map every fantasy since has been redrawing.

Frank Herbert

Spice, sand, and the genre's grandest ecology.

George R.R. Martin

Politics with the safety off.

J.K. Rowling

A whole world one brick-tap away.

J.R.R. Tolkien

There and back again — where it all began.

Gabriel García Márquez

Macondo: a village the size of a continent.

Homer

Ten years of war, ten years of getting home — the story under every story since.

Patrick Rothfuss

The most famous wizard alive tells the true story behind the legend — over three days, in an inn.

Brandon Sanderson

What if the Dark Lord won a thousand years ago — and a street thief plans the heist that ends him?

C.S. Lewis

A wardrobe, a lamppost, and always winter but never Christmas.

Philip Pullman

A girl, her daemon, and a truth-telling compass against the theocracy of two worlds.

Rick Riordan

ADHD, dyslexia, and a vaporized math teacher — turns out Percy's dad is a god.

William Goldman

Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, miracles — the 'good parts' version.