If you grinned through Westley and Inigo’s banter on the Cliffs of Insanity or the “battle of wits” with Vizzini, you’ll love the dry, rapid-fire exchanges between the demon Crowley and the angel Aziraphale in Good Omens. The book treats the apocalypse with the same playful irreverence that Miracle Max brings to “mostly dead,” balancing absurd set pieces with genuine warmth.

If the way The Princess Bride skewers fairy-tale conventions—masked swashbucklers, dastardly princes, ROUSs—made you laugh, Guards! Guards! does the same for heroic fantasy. Captain Vimes and the Night Watch stumble through conspiracies and a homicidal dragon with the same wry undercutting of cliché you enjoyed when Westley crashes Humperdinck’s wedding and outwits every trope in sight.

If you loved how Goldman frames Buttercup and Westley’s saga as a “found” text—with asides, interruptions, and that wink-at-the-reader vibe—The Neverending Story doubles down on it. Bastian literally reads himself into Atreyu’s quest, just as the “Morgenstern” frame lets you slip in and out of The Princess Bride’s adventure with metafictional flair.

If “As you wish” and the earnest, obstacle-strewn devotion between Westley and Buttercup won you over, Stardust offers that same swoony, adventurous charm. Tristran’s journey to retrieve a fallen star—who turns out to be the sharp-tongued Yvaine—mirrors the blend of peril and playful romance you loved in the chase across Florin, from pirates to witches instead of ROUSs and cliffs.

If your favorite stretch was the improvised caper—Miracle Max’s miracle, the holocaust cloak, and that wheelbarrow gambit to storm Humperdinck’s castle—then The Palace Job is your jam. Loch assembles a misfit team to con and infiltrate a sky-fortress with the same snappy camaraderie and harebrained genius that powered Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik’s rescue.