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A Hero's Journey
Return to Fiction_L Booklists Menu September 1998 (To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
 ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll THE ANUBIS GATES by Tim Powers APRIL MORNING by Howard Fast THE BUFFALO DANCE (a Blackfoot legend) CALL IT COURAGE by Armstrong Sperry CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger CHINA BOY by Gus Lee A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens CINDERELLA (fairy tale) THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, THE UNBELIEVER by Stephen Donaldson COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE (myth) DON QUIXOTE by Cervantes THE DRAGONBONE CHAIR by Tad Williams (#1 in "Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn" trilogy) THE EARTHSEA BOOKS by Ursula Le Guin EMERGENCE by David Palmer THE EXAMINATION by Malcolm Bosse FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury THE GIRL WHO OWNED A CITY by O.T. Nelson THE GIVER by Lois Lowry GLORY ROAD by Robert A. Heinlein HERO AND THE CROWN by Robin McKinley (a fantasy featuring a girl who deals with magic and dragons). HOMECOMING by Cynthia Voigt (story of a young girl taking her siblings on a search for a home and an identity.) IN THE HALL OF THE DRAGON KING by Steve Lawhead(#1 in the "Dragon King" trilogy) HATCHET by Gary Paulsen THE HOBBIT by Tolkien HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain JACK THE GIANT KILLER by Charles de Lint (Jack is actually Jacqueline. Very appealing re-telling set in modern day Canada with Faerie intersections) JULIE OF THE WOLVES by Jean Craighead George KING SOLOMONāS MINES byJohn Schmalz (also a film) KON-TIKI by Thor Heyerdahl LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula Leguin THE LEGEND OF THE BUDDHA A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest Gaines THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE by C. S. Lewis THE LORD OF THE RINGS by Tolkien LOST HORIZON by James Hilton THE MANTICORE by Robertson Davies(a psychological hero quest) THE NATURAL by Bernard Malamud THE PRINCE OF CENTRAL PARK by Evan H. Rhodes THE ODYSSEY by Homer ON STRANGER TIDES by Tim Powers ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE (myth) ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac PAUL BUNYAN (legend) THE PRYDAIN CHRONICLES by Lloyd Alexander THE SASKIAD by Brian Hall (the hero is a 12-year-old girl who makes an epic out of her life) THE SEVEN LABORS OF HERCULES (myth) SHOELESS JOE by W.P. Kinsella (film: Field of Dreams) SILK ROAD by Jeanne Larsen SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT SLEEPING BEAUTY (fairy tale) STAR WARS (film) THE STONE AND THE FLUTE by Hans Bemmann STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlien TARAN WANDERER by Lloyd Alexander THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR (myth) THE VOYAGE OUT by Virginia Woolf THE YOUNG LIONS by Madeleine L'Engle
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