5 must-read magic books like The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5) by Jonathan Stroud, Simon Jones

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The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

By: Jonathan Stroud , Simon Jones

4.21

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

It is 950 B.C.E., and King Solomon rules Jerusalem with a steely hand; a hand on which gleams a mag…

"Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

"Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

"Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

"Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

If you liked the magic plot in The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5) by Jonathan Stroud, Simon Jones , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Queste (Septimus Heap, #4) by Angie Sage, Mark Zug

1. Queste (Septimus Heap, #4)

By: Angie Sage , Mark Zug

4.06

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

The fourth book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring th… read more

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  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible."

-Angie Sage, Queste (Septimus Heap, #4)

"Shouting something didn't make it any more possible."

-Angie Sage, Queste (Septimus Heap, #4)

"Septimus look at Jenna, his green eyes serious, “It’s a luxury Jen,"

-Angie Sage, Queste (Septimus Heap, #4)

"You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel."

-Angie Sage, Queste (Septimus Heap, #4)

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2. Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

By: Christopher Paolini

4.04

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebe… read more

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  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Barzûl!"

-Christopher Paolini, Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

"Understanding breeds empathy."

-Christopher Paolini, Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

"fate has a cruel sense of humor"

-Christopher Paolini, Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think."

-Christopher Paolini, Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

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3. Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

By: Christopher Paolini

4.10

Format: 748 pages, Hardcover

Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide. It's been only months since Eragon first utte… read more

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  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"A true warrior,"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"Die puny human!"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"I already have one Sheepbiter here,"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"Pain is pain. It needs no description."

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

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4. Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1)

By: Angie Sage

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first part of an enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky… read more

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  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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5. Captain Blood Returns

By: Rafael Sabatini

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Further adventures from the much-loved Captain Blood, the 'Robin Hood' of the Spanish Seas. In his … read more

Similar categories in Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood Returns book and Jonathan Stroud's The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of Drache und Diamant (Wolkenvolk-Trilogie, #3) by Kai Meyer

6. Drache und Diamant (Wolkenvolk-Trilogie, #3)

By: Kai Meyer

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Die Drachen bewahren den Schlussel zur Rettung der Welt. Aber das Geheimnis ihrer Zuflucht wurde au… read more

Similar categories in Kai Meyer's Drache und Diamant (Wolkenvolk-Trilogie, #3) book and Jonathan Stroud's The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure

7. The Brothers Cabal (Johannes Cabal, #4)

By: Jonathan L. Howard

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Horst Cabal has risen from the dead. Again. Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to m… read more

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  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Fall of the House of Cabal (Johannes Cabal, #5)

By: Jonathan L. Howard

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The fifth novel in the acclaimed, cult-favorite series starring Johannes Cabal, necromancer. Johann… read more

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  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Fear Institute (Johannes Cabal, #3)

By: Jonathan L. Howard

4.22

Format: None pages, ebook

Johannes Cabal and his rather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talen… read more

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  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Larklight (Larklight, #1)

By: David Wyatt , Philip Reeve

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling… read more

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  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1) by David Peace

11. Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1)

By: David Peace

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

On August 15, 1946--the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender--the partially decomposed, rape… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2) by Jonathan L. Howard

12. Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

By: Jonathan L. Howard

3.50

Format: 270 pages,

Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrificall… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan L. Howard's Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2) book and Jonathan Stroud's The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction

13. Syren (Septimus Heap, #5)

By: Angie Sage

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one… read more

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14. The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

By: Jonathan Stroud , Simon Jones

4.21

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

It is 950 B.C.E., and King Solomon rules Jerusalem with a steely hand; a hand on which gleams a mag… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Stroud's The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5) book and Jonathan Stroud's The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

  • adventure
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

"Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

"Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

"Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)

15. Laura und das Siegel der Sieben Monde (Laura, #2)

By: Peter Freund

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Laura ist erst dreizehn, aber sie ist mutig und verfugt uber fantastische Fahigkeiten. Und die brau… read more

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16. Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2)

By: Angie Sage , Mark Zug

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It's been a year since Septimus Heap discovered his real family and true calling to be a wizard. As… read more

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17. Drachenelfen (Drachenelfen #1)

By: Bernhard Hennen

3.93

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Die verbotene Welt Nangog birgt den Schlussel zur Herrschaft uber die Albenmark. Als die damonische… read more

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18. Darke (Septimus Heap, #6)

By: Angie Sage , Mark Zug

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

In the sixth book of the Magykal series, Alther Mella has been Banished, a Darke Domaine engulfs th… read more

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19. Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)

By: Christopher Paolini

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance. Not so very long ago, Eragon -- Shadeslayer, Drag… read more

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20. Dieci cose che ho imparato da Jessica Fletcher: Un mistero, due indagini, tre musi da can

By: Alice Guerra

3.65

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

"Chissà se anche Luigino ha iniziato a pensarla come me e per questo ha cominciato a mettersi le ca… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. A colpi di Cannonau

By: Titania Blesh

4.11

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Sardegna, 1600. Intrappolata in un'isola deprimente e in un matrimonio disastroso, la ribelle Fia… read more

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  • adventure
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction

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4.06

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Christopher Paolini

4.04

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4.10

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3.64

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Amélie Nothomb

3.81

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4.21

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