Christian-made fantastical books for all kinds of readers

The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.
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The Book of the Dun Cow

While peace reigns for Chauntecleer, evil is brewing across the river, as the monstrous Cockatrice pillages his own lands and people, preparing for the return of Wyrm.
“Walter Wangerin Jr.’s tale harmonizes humor with personality and realistic behaviors in a symphony of spiritual truth and mythic imagery.”
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The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion

Tales and legends of the world’s beginnings and the First Age set the stage for Tolkien’s other classic works and focus on the theft of the Elves’ jewels by Morgoth, first dark lord of Middle-Earth. Fantasy/legendarium by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age — the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests. 14th century medieval tales, translated by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle

A Wind in the Door

Charles Wallace is right about the dragons—actually a friendly entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness, and to take Meg and her friend Calvin O’Keefe on a terrifying, wonderful journey into galactic space
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

A Wrinkle In Time

A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe, all in search of Meg’s father.
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The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

Narnia: The Last Battle

With Eustace and Jill at his side, King Tirian, the noble unicorn Jewel and the King’s loyal subjects must stand fast against the powers of evil.
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Till We Have Faces

Haunted by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrote this, his last, extraordinary novel, to retell their story through the gaze of Psyche’s sister, Orual. Mythological fantasy for adult readers.
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarms out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron’s power. Part 3 of the three-part The Lord of the Rings, epic fantasy for teenage readers and older, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew

When Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer are tricked by Digory’s peculiar Uncle Andrew into becoming part of an experiment, they set off on the adventure of a lifetime. Book 6 in The Chronicles of Narnia series, fantasy for all ages.
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

The Fellowship of the Ring is scattered. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed One Ring to be destroyed in Mordor. Their guide is Gollum, slave to the Ring.
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The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis

Narnia: The Horse and His Boy

During the glorious reign of Narnian kings and queens Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, Shasta, a young boy living in Calormen with a cruel man who claims to be his father, begins his journey to the unknown North.
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

Frodo Baggins knew the Ringwraiths were searching for him — and the Ring of Power he bore that would enable Sauron to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth.
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The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Silver Chair

Aslan summons Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole to the land of Narnia, and sends them to rescue a Narnian prince. Their mission will bring them face-to-face with a deadly and beautiful evil.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis
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Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

This ocean journey takes Edmund, Lucy, their cousin Eustace, and the Narnian King Caspian to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan’s Country at the End of the World.
“C. S. Lewis’s third Narnian story sails readers into exciting yet strange new worlds that test our heroes’ virtue.”
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Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis
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Narnia: Prince Caspian

A thousand years after Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie came to another world, Prince Caspian summons the children back to fight under Aslan and restore peace.
“Pacing starts slow but creature lore grows in C. S. Lewis’s sequel, introducing practical tyrants and talking-beast politics into a Narnian resistance.”
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy open a door and discover a magic world. There they meet Aslan the Great Lion, and their lives are changed forever.
“New and returning readers of all ages would do well to seek deeper magic within C. S. Lewis’s faithful classic.”
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That Hideous Strength

A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe, and it is up to Dr. Elwin Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science.
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The Great Divorce

The writer, in a dream, finds himself in a bus which travels between Hell and Heaven. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, God and sin, and the irreparable divide between Heaven and Hell.
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Perelandra

Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, Dr. Elwin Ransom must battle evil on a new planet — Perelandra. The outcome of his struggle will determine the fate of this planet.
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The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

Screwtape is an experienced devil. His nephew Wormwood is just beginning his demonic career and has been assigned to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian.
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Out Of The Silent Planet

Dr. Elwin Ransom is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. There he eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth.
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The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit

Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse unknown dangers.
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