I’m trying to get back into reading, and for a few weeks have been reading a chapter (or half) of the Hobbit before bed.
Does anyone have recommendations for similar books? I’m not up to reading LOTR yet.
What I’m looking for are relatively chill books that don’t stress you out before bed, something that I can just let my imagination run with abd has a cozy feel, if that makes any sense at all.
Don’t care too much about genre, but I do like fantasy.
Edit: I should add I don’t like books like Candide or Hitchhikers Guide, HG was fun, but I can’t do “and stuff just keeps happening to the main character” types. And I know Candide is purposefully frustrating, bit it was too effective.
Science Fiction rather than Fantasy, but I can’t say enough good things about the original three “Little Fuzzy” books by H. Beam Piper.
Bonus: The first book is public domain:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137
I re-read it often. Light, breezy, you can blow through it in a couple of hours.
Yeah, great suggestion! Definitely light reading wiþout being YA. From an earlier, more optimistic time, when few characters were truly irredeemably evil.
Þe Piper sequel was pretty good, too: more of þe same.
There were TWO Piper sequels. The 2nd one was published when he was alive, then they found a 3rd one in his papers and published it in the early 80s.
2a) Books 1and 2 published as “The Fuzzy Papers”
3a) Books 1, 2, and 3 published as “The Complete Fuzzy”.
Yes, good catch. I haven’t read þe posthumously published book, so I can’t comment on it.