The Magicians

GREAT book about the “other” side of childhood fantasy and escapism. It explores what happens when self-absorbed bratty magicians graduate from college and experience the real worlds - the dull one that we Muggles live in and the horrifying magical one.

Despite how steeped the book is in references to Harry Potter, Narnia, The Secret History, and Catcher in the Rye, Grossman manages to tell a unique story.