I read my copies so frequently in childhood that they fell apart when I returned to them in graduate school. I vividly remember the moment I first stepped through the wardrobe with Lucy Pevensie in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (LWW). See Disclaimers and Affiliates for more information. I choose affiliates with care and appreciate your supporting my work in this way.
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It’s important to acknowledge these issues, but they aren’t the focus of this post. There’s also lot of debate about sexism, racism, and colonialism in The Chronicles of Narnia. For the record, I’m on the side of publication order). There is some debate about the best order in which to read them. (At least, it’s second in order of publication.
Or follow Susan after her entire family dies and the kingdom she once ruled is inaccessible to her because she’s only interested in “nylons and lipstick and invitations.Prince Caspian, published in 1951, is the second book in the classic children’s fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. If the most famous Narnia book is too obvious of a top choice for you, perhaps you’d like to read about Anthony Bourdain sampling the regional dishes of Narnia with his camera crew. If you’re not tired of all this Narnia talk here are two fanfics that weren’t included in the official tally because they aren’t technically Narnia books and also they’d both end up at the top. Everyone forgets that so we’re politely ignoring it and still putting this one first. Also freaking Santa Claus appears because apparently the White Witch banned Christmas, too. They rule Narnia for about fifteen years before falling back through the wardrobe and into their child bodies, forced to relive puberty a second time. Lucy’s siblings soon follow her in, whereupon they meet Jesus’s fursona, Aslan, and rally an army to defeat the Witch. The youngest, Lucy, goes through a magical wardrobe to find Narnia, which is suffering an eternal winter cast by the White Witch. You already know the plot but if for some reason you don’t: four British siblings are sent away to the countryside during WWII. But this is the book where it all begins, the one that’s made the biggest mark, and we couldn’t possibly put anything else first. Most of us are familiar with the first book, especially the part where Edmund sells out his family for subpar dessert.
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