The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Goodreads Summery
Like everyone else, precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn’t real, until he finds himself admitted to a very secretive and exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. There he indulges in joys of college-friendship, love, sex, and booze- and receives a rigorous education in modern sorcery. But magic doesn’t bring the happiness and adventure Quentin thought it would. After graduation, he and his friends stumble upon a secret that sets them on a remarkable journey that may just fulfill Quentin’s yearning. But their journey turns out to be darker and more dangerous than they’d imagined. Psychologically piercing and dazzlingly inventive, The Magicians, the prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician’s Land, is an enthralling coming-of-age tale about magic practiced in the real world-where good and evil aren’t black and white, and power comes at a terrible price.
Where I found it
I’ve owned this on audible for-ev-er and just never listened to it.
Why I Added It
This has been popping up on a lot of podcasts I’ve listened too, and all the summaries have reminded me why I bought it in the first place. It’s time to finally read listen to this one.
Oz: The Wonderful Wizare of Oz (Marvel’s Oz Comics Series #1) by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young
Goodreads Summery
When Kansas farm girl Dorothy flies away to the magical Land of Oz, she fatally flattens a wicked witch, liberates a living scarecrow and is hailed by the Munchkin people as a great sorceress but all she really wants to know is: how does she get home?
Where I found it
It popped up on my Goodreads recommendations and I love classics turned comics, so I added it.
Why I Added It
I’ve started reading more graphic novels lately, but I like the non-traditional ones. I really got into an series where they redid classics as anima comics so when I say Wizard of Oz retold in this way, I added it to my list.
Wildwood by Colin Meloy
Goodreads Summery
The first book in the epic middle-grade fantasy series full of magic, wonder, and danger—nothing less than an American Narnia—from Colin Meloy, lead singer of the highly celebrated band the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, the acclaimed illustrator of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Benedict Society.
Where I found it
I honestly dont’ remember. It may have been a side bar on goodreads.
Why I Added It
If the book lives up to the description, how could I not read it.
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
Goodreads Summery
Meet Dwight, a sixth-grade oddball. Dwight does a lot of weird things, like wearing the same T-shirt for a month or telling people to call him “Captain Dwight.” This is embarrassing, particularly for Tommy, who sits with him at lunch every day.
But Dwight does one cool thing. He makes origami. One day he makes an origami finger puppet of Yoda. And that’s when things get mysterious. Origami Yoda can predict the future and suggest the best way to deal with a tricky situation. His advice actually works, and soon most of the sixth grade is lining up with questions.
Tommy wants to know how Origami Yoda can be so smart when Dwight himself is so clueless. Is Yoda tapping into the Force? It’s crucial that Tommy figure out the mystery before he takes Yoda’s advice about something VERY IMPORTANT that has to do with a girl.
This is Tommy’s case file of his investigation into “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.”
Where I found it
The Get Booked BookRiot podcast had this on their children’s book recomendation.
Why I Added It
Because it sounds awesome. Who wouldn’t want to read a book that has an Origami Yoda in it?
Seven Dead Pirates by Linda Bailey
Goodreads Summery
In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now.
Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them— whether she wants to or not.
Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home . . . forever
Where I found it
Several blogs have been talking about it. Here’s a review from Perpetual Page Turner and an author review from Alexa Loves Books
Why I Added It
Time travel, mystery, danger and intruige. What more do I need to say?