L. Frank Baum 3 hr 27 min read

Ann Soforth, the little Queen of Oogaboo, sets out to conquer the world with a tiny army, and, with the clockwork man Tik-Tok and Betsy Bobbin, tangles with the Nome King on the way to Oz.

L. Frank Baum's 1914 novel is a delightful entry in the beloved Oz series. Warm, whimsical, gloriously inventive. Read it for a rousing Oz adventure starring the ever-faithful clockwork man Tik-Tok, the shipwrecked Betsy Bobbin, and a comic conquest gone charmingly awry, in one of Baum's liveliest and most beloved tales.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 27 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).