A list of fantasy books and series
An uncomplete list of books
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Abhorsen Trilogy - Garth Nix
Acacia: The War With The Mein - David Anthony Durham
Aegypt series - John Crowley
Aladore - Henry Newbolt
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alphabet of Thorn - Patricia McKillip
The Tales of Alvin Maker series - Orson Scott Card
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Amber series - Roger Zelazny
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Among Others - Jo Walton
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
Apprentice Adept series - Piers Anthony
Arafel duo - C. J. Cherryh
The Artefacts of Power - Maggie Furey
Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer.
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald
The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud
Bas-Lag - China Miéville
The Battle of Apocalypse - Eduardo Spohr
Beauty - Robin McKinley
Beauty - Sheri S. Tepper
Beautiful Darkness (novel) - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Beautiful Creatures (book) - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
The Belgariad series - David Eddings
Beyond the Golden Stair - Hannes Bok
Beyonders: A World Without Heroes - Brandon Mull
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles - Holly Black
The BFG - Roald Dahl
The Bitter-nde trilogy - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Black Blossom - Boban Knežević
The Black Company saga - Glen Cook, a nested set of sub-series
The Black Jewels trilogy - Anne Bishop
The Black Magician (novel series) - Trudi Canavan
The Black Swan - Mercedes Lackey
Bloodring - Faith Hunter
Blood Song - Anthony Ryan
The Blue Star - Fletcher Pratt
The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley
Boggart series - Susan Cooper
Bone Dance - Emma Bull
The Book of Atrix Wolfe - Patricia McKillip
Book of Enchantments - Patricia C. Wrede
The Book of the New Sun series - Gene Wolfe
The Books of Abarat - Clive Barker
Brak the Barbarian - John Jakes
Brown Girl in the Ring - Nalo Hopkinson
Bloodlines - Richelle Mead
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor - Mervyn Peake
Cats Have No Lord - Will Shetterly
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Charlie Bone Series - Jenny Nimmo
The Chathrand Voyage Quartet - Robert V.S. Redick
Children of the Lamp series - P.B. Kerr
Chimera - John Barth
Chrestomanci series - Diana Wynne Jones
Chronicles of an Age of Darkness - Hugh Cook
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Michelle Paver
Chronicles of Brothers series - Wendy Alec
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis - see at N, below
The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander
Chronicles of The Raven - James Barclay
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series - Stephen R. Donaldson - see at T,
The Circus of Dr. Lao - Charles G. Finney
City of Bones - Martha Wells
The Claidi Journals - Tanith Lee
Cold Tom - Sally Prue
Conan series - Robert E. Howard and others
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Court of the Air - Stephen Hunt
The Crock of Gold - James Stephens
Cygnet series - Patricia A. McKillip
Dalemark Quartet - Diana Wynne Jones
The Dalkey Archive - Flann O'Brien
Damiano series - R. A. MacAvoy
The Dark Artifices trilogy - Cassandra Clare
The Dark Is Rising sequence - Susan Cooper
The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
Daughter of the Lioness series - Tamora Pierce
The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells
Deltora series - Emily Rodda
The Deptford Mice - Robin Jarvis
Descent into Hell - Charles Williams
Dirk Gently series - Douglas Adams
Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley
The Door Within Trilogy - Wayne Thomas Batson
Dorothea Dreams - Suzy McKee Charnas
Dragoncharm trilogy - Graham Edwards
Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragon Raja - Lee Yeongdo
Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke
Dragonriders of Pern series - Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsbane - Barbara Hambly
Dragonvarld trilogy - Margaret Weis
The Dreamwalker's Child - Steve Voake
The Drawing of the Dark - Tim Powers
The Dresden Files series - Jim Butcher
Drizzt Do'Urden novels - R. A. Salvatore
Durand Col series - David Keck. Series has no official name, however Durand Col is generally used because he is the central focus of all the novels.
The Dying Earth series - Jack Vance
The Dragonology Chronicles: The Dragon's Eye - Dugald A.Steer,
Earthsea series - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Edge Chronicles - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
The Elenium series - David Eddings
Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
The Empire Trilogy - Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit
Enchanted Forest series - Patricia C. Wrede
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn - Alison Goodman
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Eldest - Christopher Paolini
Excalibur - Sanders Anne Laubenthal
Expecting Someone Taller - Tom Holt
The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King
Fablehaven series - Brandon Mull
The Face in the Frost - John Bellairs
The Faerie Wars Chronicles - Herbie Brennan
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series - Fritz Leiber
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - J.K. Rowling
Farsala trilogy - Hilari Bell
The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods - William T. Cox
A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle
The Fionavar Tapestry - Guy Gavriel Kay
Fisher King series - Tim Powers
Fledgling - Octavia Butler
Flesh and Fire - Laura Anne Gilman
Flying Dutch - Tom Holt
The Fool on the Hill - Matt Ruff
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip
Fortress series - C. J. Cherryh
Fourth Mansions - R. A. Lafferty
Fablehaven series - Brandon Mull
The Face in the Frost - John Bellairs
The Faerie Wars Chronicles - Herbie Brennan
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series - Fritz Leiber
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - J.K. Rowling
Farsala trilogy - Hilari Bell
The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods - William T. Cox
A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle
The Fionavar Tapestry - Guy Gavriel Kay
Fisher King series - Tim Powers
Fledgling - Octavia Butler
Flesh and Fire - Laura Anne Gilman
Flying Dutch - Tom Holt
The Fool on the Hill - Matt Ruff
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip
Fortress series - C. J. Cherryh
Fourth Mansions - R. A. Lafferty
Garrett series - Glen Cook
Gezeitenwelt series - Magus Magellan
The Ghost and The Goth - Stacey Kade
Ghost Blows Out the Light - Zhang Muye
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Giant of World's End - Lin Carter
The Girl in a Swing - Richard Adams
Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen - Michael Moorcock
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Gormenghast series - Mervyn Peake - see at T (Titus), below
Graceling - Kristin Cashore
The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
The Green Child - Herbert Read
The Green Round - Arthur Machen
Grendel - John Gardner
GREY - The Covenant of Shadows - Kade Cook
The Hagwood Books - Robin Jarvis
The Halfblood Chronicles - Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
Hart's Hope - Orson Scott Card
The Haunted Woman - David Lindsay
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Here Comes the Sun - Tom Holt
Heroes of the Valley - Jonathan Stroud
The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
The Hill of Dreams - Arthur Machen
His Dark Materials series - Philip Pullman
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hounds of the Morrigan - Pat O'Shea
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
House of Night - P.C. Cast
The House with a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N. K. Jemisin
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
The Idylls of the Queen - Phyllis Ann Karr
Ile-Rien series - Martha Wells
The Immortals series - Tamora Pierce
Incarnations of Immortality series - Piers Anthony
In the Forests of Serre - Patricia McKillip
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (aka The War of Dreams) - Angela Carter
Ingo series - Helen Dunmore
Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance (book)
Inheritance - Steven Saville
Ink Exchange | Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
Inkheart Trilogy - Cornelia Funke
Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath
Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright
The Infernal Devices" Trilogy - Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, Clockwork Princess
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Journalists (novel) - Sergei Aman
Kai Lung series - Ernest Bramah
The Kane Chronicles - Rick Riordan
Kellory the Warlock - Lin Carter
The Khaavren Romances - Steven Brust
Khaled: A Tale of Arabia - F. Marion Crawford
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You, - Dorothy Bryant
The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
The King of Elfland's Daughter - Lord Dunsany
King Rat - China Miéville
Kingdoms of Elfin - Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone - Greg Keyes
The Kingkiller Chronicle - Patrick Rothfuss
Krondor's Sons (The Riftwar Stories) - Raymond E. Feist
Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey
The Land Across - Gene Wolfe
The Last Dragon - Silvana De Mari
The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor - John Barth
Latro series - Gene Wolfe
The Lays of Beleriand - J. R. R. Tolkien
Legends of the Riftwar - Raymond E. Feist
Letters from a Lost Uncle - Mervyn Peake
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Lilith - George MacDonald
The Little Grey Men - BB
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
Little People - Tom Holt
Little, Big - John Crowley
Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis - C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Lost Tales - J. R. R. Tolkien
Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
Lyonesse series - Jack Vance
Lyra series - Patricia Wrede
May Bird and the Ever After series - Jodie Lynn Anderson
M is for Magic series - Neil Gaiman
The Magic City - E. Nesbit
The Magician Out of Manchuria - Charles G. Finney
The Magician Trilogy - Jenny Nimmo
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Magyk - Angie Sage
Malazan Book of the Fallen series - Steven Erikson
The Malloreon - David and Leigh Eddings
The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
Marianne - Sheri S. Tepper
The Mark of the Demons - John Jakes
Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser
Mary Poppins series - P. L. Travers
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Master Li - Barry Hughart
Matilda - Roald Dahl
The Maze Runner series - James Dashner
Mention My Name in Atlantis - John Jakes
Merlin's Ring - H. Warner Munn
The Merman's Children - Poul Anderson
Mickelsson's Ghosts - John Gardner
Millroy the Magician - Paul Theroux
Mistress Masham's Repose - T. H. White
Mistborn series - Brandon Sanderson
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn - Tad Williams
Moonheart - Charles de Lint
The Mortal Instruments series - Cassandra Clare
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium - Suzanne Weyn
Mr. Pye - Mervyn Peake
Myth Adventures series - Robert Asprin
The Nightrunner Series - Lynn Flewelling
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
The Chronicles of Narnia series - C.S. Lewis
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny
The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
Nothing But Blue Skies - Tom Holt
Number9Dream - David Mitchell
The Named - Marianne Curley
The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Isobelle Carmody
Od Magic - Patricia McKillip
Oksa Pollock series - Anne Plichota and Cendrine Wolf
Ombria in Shadow - Patricia McKillip
On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers
The Once and Future King series - T.H. White
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Our Ancestors a set - Italo Calvino
Overtime - Tom Holt
Oz series (40 "canonical" titles) - L. Frank Baum (original creator and author of 14 books of the series), Ruth Plumly Thompson (19 books), Rachel R. Cosgrove (1 book), John R. Neill (author of 3 books), Jack Snow (2 books), and Eloise Jarvis McGraw & Lauren McGraw Wagner (1 book as co-authors)
Paint Your Dragon - Tom Holt
Peace - Gene Wolfe
Pellinor - Alison Croggon
The Pendragon Adventure - D. J. MacHale
Percy Jackson & The Olympians - Rick Riordan
The Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope
Peter and Wendy aka Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - J. M. Barrie
Phantastes - George MacDonald
Pilgermann - Russell Hoban
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
The Piratica Series - Tanith Lee
The Place of the Lion - Charles Williams
Policeman Bluejay - L. Frank Baum
Portrait of Jennie - Robert Nathan
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Prince of Nothing trilogy - R. Scott Bakker
The Princes of the Golden Cage - Nathalie Mallet
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Promise of Blood - Brian McClellan[3]
Protector of the Small series - Tamora Pierce
The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander
The Quest of Kadji - Lin Carter
Quidditch Through The Ages - J.K. Rowling
The Quentaris Chronicles - various Australian writers
Queste - Angie Sage
Ranger's Apprentice series - John Flanagan
Red Moon and Black Mountain - Joy Chant
Redwall - Brian Jacques
The Revenants - Sheri S. Tepper
Riftwar series - Raymond E. Feist
Rose Daughter - Robin McKinley
Roverandom - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Runelords series - David Farland
Rusalka series - C. J. Cherryh
Sangreal Trilogy - Jan Siegel
The Scarlet Fig - Avram Davidson
The Sea of Trolls - Nancy Farmer
Septimus Heap series - Angie Sage
Shadow Warrior series - Chris Bunch
Shadowslayers - Charlie Martin
Shannara series - Terry Brooks
The Shape-Changer's Wife - Sharon Shinn
The Shapeshifter series - Ali Sparkes
Shardik - Richard Adams
The Shaving of Shagpat - George Meredith
Shrek! - William Steig
The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien
Silver John series - Manly Wade Wellman
Silverlock - John Myers Myers
Snow White and Rose Red - Patricia C. Wrede
Snow White and the Seven Samurai - Tom Holt
Solstice Wood - Patricia McKillip
Song for the Basilisk - Patricia McKillip
Song of Ice and Fire series - George R. R. Martin
The Song of the Lioness series - Tamora Pierce
The Sorcerer's Ship - Hannes Bok
The Spiderwick Chronicles - Holly Black
Spindle's End - Robin McKinley
The Starcatchers series - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein
Stone and Sky trilogy - Graham Edwards
The Stormlight Archive series - Brandon Sanderson
Stravaganza series - Mary Hoffman
The Stress of Her Regard - Tim Powers
Stuart Little - E. B. White
The Sundering Flood - William Morris
The Switchers Trilogy - Kate Thompson
The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind
The Sword Smith - Eleanor Arnason
Swordbird - Nancy Yi Fan
Swords Against the Shadowland - Robin Wayne Bailey
The Swords of Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber
Symphony of Ages series - Elizabeth Haydon
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series - Michael Scott
Tales From The Flat Earth series - Tanith Lee
The Tales of Alvin Maker, see at A, above
The Tales Of Beedle The Bard - J.K. Rowling
The Kane Chronicles - Rick Riordan
The Tales of the Otori - Lian Hearn
Talking Man - Terry Bisson
Tam Lin - Pamela Dean
The Tamuli series - David Eddings
Tara of the Twilight - Lin Carter
Tarzan series - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ten Silver Coins - Andrew Kooman
The Thief of Always - Clive Barker
The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
Thieves' World series edited - Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Thongor of Lemuria - Lin Carter
The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
The Three Worlds Cycle - Ian Irvine
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series - Stephen R. Donaldson
Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson
Three to See the King - Magnus Mills
Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
Thunder on the Left - Christopher Morley
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale - Holly Black
Titus series (aka Gormenghast) - Mervyn Peake
Tomoe Gozen series - Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Topper duo - Thorne Smith
The Touch of Evil - John Rackham
The Tower at Stony Wood - Patricia McKillip
The Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer
The Underland Chronicles - Suzanne Collins
Unfinished Tales - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Unicorn Series - Tanith Lee
The Unicorns of Balinor - Mary Stanton
Un Lun Dun - China Miéville
Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
Valhalla - Tom Holt
Velgarth series - Mercedes Lackey
Villains - Necessity - Eve Forward
Viriconium cycle - M. John Harrison
The Vlad Taltos books - Steven Brust
Von Bek series - Michael Moorcock
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
The Wardstone Chronicles - Joseph Delaney
War in Heaven - Charles Williams
The War of Dreams (aka The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman) - Angela Carter
Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
The Warrior of World's End - Lin Carter
Warriors Series - Erin Hunter
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Ba- - Charles Kingsley
The Water of the Wondrous Isles - William Morris
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
The Well at the World's End - William Morris
The Well of the Unicorn - Fletcher Pratt
Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
When the Birds Fly South - Stanton A. Coblentz
When the Idols Walked - John Jakes
The Whit- Witches - Robin Jarvis
Who's Afraid of Beowulf? - Tom Holt
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? - Gary K. Wolf
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-The-Pooh - A.A. Milne, however; the recent book wasn't written - Milne.
Winter Rose - Patricia McKillip
Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin
Wish You Were Here - Tom Holt
Witch of the Four Winds - John Jakes
The Witcher - Andrzej Sapkowski
The Wish Giver - Bill Brittain
The Wizard of Lemuria - Lin Carter
Wizard of the Pigeons - Megan Lindholm
The Wizard of Zao - Lin Carter
The Wolf Leader - Alexandre Dumas
The Wolves in the Walls - Neil Gaiman
Women of the Otherworld series - Canadian author Kelley Armstrong.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum.
The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris
The World According to Novikoff - Andrei Gusev
The Worm Ouroboros - E. R. Eddison
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Xanth series - Piers Anthony
Young Wizards series - Diane Duane
Zimiamvia series - E. R. Eddison
Zoo City - Lauren Beukes
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List of books I have read myself
​Below, I made a list of the books that I have read during the previous years. I first discovered the Fantasy genre when I started reading Harry Potter when I was about 15 years old. After that, I mostly read books in this genre, because other genres like romance or science fiction fail to grab my attention. I think this list is not complete, but most of the books I read are in it.
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The Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling
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The Twilight Series – Stephanie Meyer
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The Immortals (series) – Alyson Noel
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Game of Thrones (series) – George R. R. Martin
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Inheritance Cycle (series) – Christopher Paolini (Unfinished)
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Throne of Glass (series) – Sarah J. Maas
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The Caster Chronicles (series) – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (Unfinished)
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The Vampire Diaries (series) – L. J. Smith
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House of Night (series) – P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast
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Angel Series – L. A. Weatherly
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‘De Tovenaar’ (series) – Michael Peinkofer
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The Divergent Series – Veronica Roth
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Willowmere Chronicles – Alison Baird
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The Hunger Games (Series) - Suzanne Colins
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Eragon (series) - Chritopher Paolini
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The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
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The Glass Throne (series) - Sarah J. Maas
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Raven's Shadow (series) - Anthony Ryan
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The Inhabited Woman - Gioconda Belli
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The Tales of Beedle The Bard (Harry Potter) - J. K. Rowling
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Dochter van de Poorten (Dutch, not trranslated) - Michael Baeyen
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NB: I read most of these book in my native language, Dutch. But a few of them, mostly the ones I read when I became older, were read in both English and Dutch or even only in English. This means I read some of these books more then once.
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NB2: the older I get, the more I read in English. I enjoy reading in English, but my favourite language will always be my native language.