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The Giver (Giver, #1)
Lois Lowry
★★★★· Published 1993· 208 pages· read 2026
The book that made a lot of us fall for dystopias. A boy discovers what his tidy, colorless world quietly traded away, and it stuck with me for years.
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★ 5Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
Patricia C. Wrede
Princess Cimorene is bored of being a proper princess, so she runs off to keep house for a dragon instead. I loved this as a kid — funny, fizzy, and quietly feminist.
The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
Megan Whalen Turner
A quest fantasy narrated by a cocky young thief, and then that ending. I did not see it coming.
★ 5Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
Tamora Pierce
Alanna disguises herself as a boy to train as a knight. I devoured this whole series growing up.