Books like Belgarath the Sorcerer
The seven-thousand-year autobiography of the world's oldest sorcerer, filling in the mythology behind the Belgariad.
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Malice
In the Banished Lands, where giants once ruled, Corban, a blacksmith's son, wants only to become a warrior, while kings gather for war, an old prophecy stirs and a wolven pup attaches itself to him.
The Eye of the World
Three farm boys leave their isolated Two Rivers village after a night of black-cloaked riders, and one of them turns out to be the reincarnation of the man prophesied to break the world.
Warbreaker
A warrior princess and an immortal scholar clash and ally in a standalone fantasy about colour-based magic and political intrigue.
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.
The Way of Kings
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.
Wizard's First Rule
Richard Cypher, a woods guide in Westland, rescues a mysterious woman, Kahlan, from four assassins, and learns she has crossed the magical boundary to find the long-lost wizard who can name a Seeker of Truth to stand against the tyrant Darken Rahl.
Black Sun
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.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
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.
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 Black Prism
A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.