Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1The Hobbit (1937)The Hobbit (1937) 8.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1937Bilbo's route from his comfortable front door to the Lonely Mountain moves through places that demand different kinds of judgement: mountain tunnels, a hostile forest, a river town. Food, shelter and the company's uneven morale keep the distance tangible. Tolkien's maps add the pleasure of…0
  2. 2A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) 7.9/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1968Ged's movement among Earthsea's islands makes the archipelago feel wider than any single school or kingdom. Small boats, different communities and the exposure of open water turn his magical predicament into a journey with physical scale. Le Guin's spare telling rewards readers happy to imagine the…0
  3. 3The Last Unicorn (1968)The Last Unicorn (1968) 8.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1968A unicorn leaves her forest to discover what became of the others, travelling with companions whose needs complicate her own. Encounters with a travelling show, outlaws and a faded court make the road a sequence of different human worlds. Beagle gives the detours humour and melancholy, so arrival…0
  4. 4Watership Down (1972)Watership Down (1972) 8.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1972Hazel's rabbits must read hedges, fields, roads and waterways as a landscape of shelter and threat. The familiar countryside becomes newly expansive because distance and visibility mean something different to a small animal. Stories told within the group give their travelling culture a life beyond…0
  5. 5The Steerswoman (1989)The Steerswoman (1989) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1989Rowan's investigation begins with objects whose locations do not quite make sense on her maps. Travelling with Bel gives observation and exchanged knowledge a practical use: the next piece of geography may change the question entirely. Kirstein makes asking careful questions as exciting as reaching…0
  6. 6The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master #1) (1976)The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master #1) (1976) 6.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1976Morgon leaves the small farming island he rules to seek answers that draw him across stranger lands. McKillip makes a homeland's ordinary attachments felt against the demands of a widening quest, with riddles and old knowledge altering how the route is understood. For readers who enjoy an elusive,…0
  7. 7Bridge of Birds (1984)Bridge of Birds (1984) 8.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1984Number Ten Ox and Master Li search for a cure for a village's children, following a route through wonders, frauds and apparently unrelated troubles. Their partnership gives the episodic journey its comic rhythm, while the connections between encounters gradually become more important. Hughart's…0
  8. 8Die unendliche Geschichte (1979)Die unendliche Geschichte (1979) 8.2/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1979The Neverending Story appears here under its original German title, Die unendliche Geschichte. Bastian's encounters with the book and its world keep altering what a journey can mean. Ende invites curiosity about stories, wishes and what a traveller carries into the landscape, with wonders well…0
  9. 9The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) 8.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1961Milo drives through a geography made from the ways people misuse words, numbers and attention, gaining argumentative companions along the way. Each apparent detour changes how he notices the next place. Juster's map and Jules Feiffer's drawings make the conceptual landscape a pleasure to revisit. A…0
  10. 10The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland #1) (2011)The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland #1) (2011) 8.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2011September accepts a way out of Omaha and discovers that Fairyland's inviting oddities have rules and costs of their own. New companions and changing forms of travel give her passage a restless, storybook variety. Valente rewards readers who like a narrator pausing over the peculiar details a…0