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Samantha Shannon · 2023 · UK · fantasy
Book 2 of 2 in The Roots of Chaos
★ 4.31 Goodreads · 63,307 ratings

Five hundred years before The Priory of the Orange Tree, as the fire-breathing wyrms rise, four women in different corners of the world face the coming Grief of Ages.

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Eragon

Christopher Paolini · 2002 · US 98% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,993,222 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Inheritance Cycle
shares: world building, dragon, epic fantasy, dragons · speculative, earnest

Eragon, a farm boy in the remote land of Alagaësia, finds a polished blue stone in the mountains that hatches into a dragon, and finds himself heir to the Dragon Riders, the order destroyed by the tyrant king Galbatorix.

The Grace of Kings

Ken Liu · 2015 · US 97% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 32,330 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Dandelion Dynasty
shares: world building, epic fantasy, sprawling, epic · speculative, deep world-building

In the islands of Dara, held together by a tyrant emperor, Kuni Garu, a charming idler turned bandit, and Mata Zyndu, the giant last son of a deposed noble clan, are drawn into the rebellion that follows his death.

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 · UK 96% match ★ 4.56 Hardcover · 2,044 ratings
shares: world building, epic fantasy, sprawling, epic · speculative, deep world-building

A hobbit inherits a ring of absolute power and must carry it across a continent to destroy it in the fires where it was made.

Dragonflight

Anne McCaffrey · 1968 · US 96% match ★ 3.71 Hardcover · 420 ratings
shares: world building, dragon, romantic, dragons · speculative, deep world-building

On the planet Pern, threatened every two hundred years by Thread falling from the sky, the dragonrider F'lar finds Lessa, the last of her noble line, hiding as a drudge, and brings her to bond with a new queen dragon.

A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin · 1996 · US 96% match ★ 4.45 Goodreads · 2,827,310 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in A Song of Ice and Fire
shares: epic fantasy, sprawling, war, epic · speculative, deep world-building

As summer ends in the Seven Kingdoms, the noble houses scheme for the Iron Throne while an exiled princess gathers dragons and something ancient stirs beyond the Wall.

Fireborne

Rosaria Munda · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 38,138 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Aurelian Cycle
shares: dragon, war, romantic, dragons · speculative, deep world-building

In a city that overthrew its dragonriding aristocracy, Annie, a peasant girl, and Lee, an orphan of the old regime, have risen through the new dragonrider programme, and survivors of the old nobility come back with dragons of their own.

The Last Wish

Andrzej Sapkowski · 1993 · Poland 95% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 439,372 ratings
Book 1 of 9 in The Witcher
shares: speculative, cold

Geralt of Rivia, a witcher who hunts monsters for pay, rests at a temple of the goddess Melitele after a hard fight and remembers the jobs that brought him there.

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson · 2010 · US 95% match ★ 4.66 Goodreads · 732,509 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in The Stormlight Archive
shares: epic fantasy, war, multiple narrators, epic · speculative, deep world-building

A soldier stripped of his rank and a scholar desperate to save her people bond over ancient magical armour as war engulfs a storm-ravaged world.

Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse · 2020 · US 95% match ★ 4.07 Hardcover · 370 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Between Earth and Sky
shares: epic fantasy, queer, multiple narrators, epic · speculative, deep world-building

In the holy city of Tova, as the winter solstice nears, Naranpa, a sun priest of humble birth, faces enemies within her own order, while the ship captain Xiala carries Serapio, a blind young man with a terrible purpose, across the sea towards the city.

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb · 1995 · US 95% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 453,796 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy
shares: epic fantasy, epic · speculative, earnest

A six-year-old royal bastard left at Buckkeep Castle is raised in the stables and secretly trained by the king's assassin while he discovers two forbidden magics, the Skill and the Wit.

The Black Prism

Brent Weeks · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 134,867 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Lightbringer
shares: epic fantasy, war, epic · speculative, deep world-building

A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.

When the Moon Hatched

Sarah A. Parker · 2024 · New Zealand 94% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 378,849 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Moonfall
shares: world building, dragon, romantic, dragons · speculative, deep world-building

In a world where dead dragons rise into the sky and harden into moons, Raeve is an assassin for a rebel order who is rarely caught, until her path crosses that of Kaan Vaegor, a grieving man on a dangerous quest of his own.