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Books like Gulliver's Travels

If you liked Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Silver Chair

    C. S. Lewis · 1953 · Chronicles of Narnia #4

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics, adventure.

    Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.

  2. The Phantom Tollbooth

    Norton Juster · 1961

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics, adventure.

    A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.

  3. The Last Battle

    C.S. Lewis · 1956 · Chronicles of Narnia #7

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics, adventure.

    Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.

  4. The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

    Because shares tags: classics, fantasy, satire.

    Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.

  5. The Horse and His Boy

    C. S. Lewis · 1954 · Chronicles of Narnia #5

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics, adventure.

    Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.

  6. The Color of Magic

    Terry Pratchett · 1983 · Discworld #1

    Because shares tags: fantasy, satire, adventure.

    A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.

  7. The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman · 2000 · His Dark Materials #3

    Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure, classics.

    Lyra and Will cross worlds with amber spyglass to free ghosts and kill Authority.

  8. Peter Pan

    J.M. Barrie · 1911

    Because shares tags: classics, fantasy, adventure.

    Wendy, John and Michael fly to Neverland with Peter, face Hook, and learn what growing up costs.

  9. Howl's Moving Castle

    Diana Wynne Jones · 1986 · Howl's Castle #1

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics, adventure.

    Cursed old by the Witch of the Waste, hatmaker Sophie Hatter talks her way into wizard Howl's moving castle and bargains with fire demon…

  10. The Witches

    Roald Dahl · 1983

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics, adventure.

    A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.

  11. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum · 1900 · Oz #1

    Because shares tags: classics, fantasy, adventure.

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

  12. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

    C. S. Lewis · 1952 · Chronicles of Narnia #3

    Because shares tags: fantasy, classics, adventure.

    Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's…

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