No arguments there. I think the reason I don’t love it as much as the others was because it’s so jarringly different (to me). I get what you’re saying about reading feeling like home, for sure. Thanks for an actual answer!

No hate cause I love love love Narnia but that one is easily my least favorite of the bunch. Interesting choice. Any particular reason you prefer that one?

Oh gosh. Narnia, Pern, Xanth, the Belgariad, the Elenium. Two standalones I remember loving are Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville and a story called The Thingamajig by…somebody. I haven’t been able to find it again. It’s about a boy who finds an alien trinket and plugs it into his dad’s ham radio and contacts the aliens who left it.