Books like A Wizard of Earthsea
A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.
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Powers
Gavir, an enslaved boy in a city-state who has visions of the future, grows up loyal to the household that owns him, until a betrayal sends him in search of freedom, in the third book of the Annals of the Western Shore.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
The Riddle-Master of Hed
Morgon, the farmer-prince of the small island of Hed, wins a crown in a riddle game against a ghost, and finds that the three stars on his forehead mark him for something he does not understand.
The Name of the Wind
Kvothe, now an innkeeper hiding under another name, tells a chronicler the real story of his life, from a childhood with a troupe of players and years as a street orphan to his entry into the University.
The Shadow of What Was Lost
Twenty years after the Gifted lost a war and were bound by the Tenets, Davian, a student at one of their schools who can't use his powers, discovers he can do something forbidden, and flees with his friends as an ancient threat stirs in the north.
Magician
Pug, an orphaned kitchen boy at the castle of Crydee, is apprenticed to the magician Kulgan just as invaders from another world begin coming through a rift in space, and the war that follows carries him and his friend Tomas far from home.
The Lord of the Rings
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.
Dawn of Wonder
A boy enters a legendary military academy where the training is brutal and the mysteries of an ancient power lie buried beneath.
Sabriel
Sabriel, at boarding school south of the Wall in Ancelstierre, receives her father's sword and bells, the tools of the Abhorsen who lays the dead to rest, and crosses into the Old Kingdom, where the dead are rising, to find him.
The Dragonbone Chair
A kitchen boy in a crumbling castle discovers he is at the centre of a prophecy when an ancient evil stirs beneath the mountains.
The Beast Player
Elin's mother cares for the giant water serpents that are the backbone of the kingdom's army, and when several die on her watch she is sentenced to death; Elin, alone, finds she can do what no one else can with the realm's beasts.
The King of Elfland's Daughter
The lord of Erl, told by his parliament that the people wish to be ruled by a magic lord, sends his son Alveric across the border into Elfland to marry the Elf King's daughter.