Fantasy · Similar reads
Books like The Return of the King
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien is about sacrifice and loss, the cost of victory, eucatastrophe and sudden hope. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Fellowship of the Ring
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J.R.R. Tolkien · Fantasy
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, following Frodo Baggins from the safety of the Shire into a world of accelerating danger.
Read the summary → - The Two Towers
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J.R.R. Tolkien · Fantasy
The Two Towers is the second volume of The Lord of the Rings, split into two halves that follow different threads of the broken Fellowship.
Read the summary → - The Hobbit
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J.R.R. Tolkien · Fantasy
Bilbo Baggins is a thoroughly respectable hobbit who has no interest in adventures, danger, or anything that might interfere with his meals.
Read the summary → - A Court of Mist and Fury
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.
Read the summary → - A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
Feyre Archeron is nineteen, hunting in winter to feed her family, when she kills a wolf in the forest and is taken by a creature from Prythian — the land of the fae — as payment for a life.
Read the summary → - A Darker Shade of Magic
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V.E. Schwab · Fantasy
A Darker Shade of Magic is set across four parallel versions of London — Red, Grey, White, and the long-destroyed Black — each existing in the same location but separated by the barriers between worlds.
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