Recs if you like Tik-Tok of Oz (Oz, #8)...
Fantasy books you can read instead of Harry Potter
JK Rowling is a bigot who uses her platform to hurt transfolks and other marginalized groups (plus she literally just quoted Mein Kampf on the bird site). If you're still supporting her in 2025, don't bother talking to me.
Welcome to The Shop Around the Corner
Here you’ll find a multitude of children’s books featured in the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail, which, if you’re unfamiliar, heavily features a children’s bookstore called The Shop Around the Corner. Nothing brings me joy quite like children’s literature and 90s nostalgia, so I have painstakingly studied the shelves featured in the film to bring this list to life. I hope that at least one book here unlocks a nostalgic memory for you, or at least conjures a smile of recognition.
The "Famous Forty" Oz Books
The series by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, and Lauren Lynn McGraw.
The World of Oz
Books set in Oz or are Oz-related. All books by L. Frank Baum are in order of date released.
Unable to add The Littlest Giant, a short story from 1917.
Okay so they were in order um…
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