If the way Frodo leaves the Shire and, step by step, the road widens from Bree to Moria to the plains of Rohan pulled you in, you’ll love how Rand, Mat, and Perrin flee Emond’s Field and find their path widening through Shadar Logoth, Whitebridge, and the Green Man’s sanctuary. Like the Fellowship’s march toward Mount Doom, the stakes in The Eye of the World swell from village troubles to a crisis that touches the entire Age.

If you savored Tolkien’s layered appendices, the songs of the Dúnedain, and the ancient shadow of Númenor hanging over the quest to Mordor, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell will feel like opening another Red Book. Clarke builds a meticulously footnoted history of English magic, from the Raven King to the Gentleman with the Thistle-Down Hair, with the same immersive depth that made Lothlórien and Fangorn feel old as the world.

If the focused drive of carrying the One Ring to Mount Doom kept you turning pages, Taran’s mission to save Hen Wen and stand against the Horned King will hit the same nerve. Like Frodo and Sam pushed across the Emyn Muil and into Mordor, Taran is carried from Caer Dallben into a quest where every choice matters, joined by companions like Eilonwy, Gurgi, and Fflewddur Fflam who echo the Fellowship’s purposeful march.

If you loved how Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and the hobbits each brought different strengths to the Fellowship—from the mines of Moria to the stand at Helm’s Deep—The Way of Kings delivers that same energy through Kaladin, Shallan, and Dalinar. Multiple perspectives braid together into a bond-forged company weathering siege and storm on the Shattered Plains, echoing the camaraderie and courage that held the Fellowship together.

If moments like the light of Eärendil in Shelob’s Lair, the hush of Lothlórien, or Treebeard’s slow song in Fangorn gave you goosebumps, The Last Unicorn will, too. Beagle’s tale—of a unicorn seeking her lost kind, of Schmendrick and Molly Grue, of King Haggard’s bleak castle—carries the same luminous, bittersweet awe that ripples through The Lord of the Rings at its most enchanted.