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Books like Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi · 2018 · US · fantasy · young adult
Book 1 of 3 in Legacy of Orïsha
★ 4.10 Goodreads · 261,102 ratings

Magic vanished from Orïsha the night the king's soldiers killed the maji, Zélie Adebola's mother among them, and now Zélie, her brother and a runaway princess have one chance to bring it back before the crown prince hunts them down.

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12 books for readers of Children of Blood and Bone

Wizard's First Rule

Terry Goodkind · 1994 · US 97% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 255,841 ratings
Book 1 of 15 in The Sword of Truth
shares: chosen one, epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · earnest, speculative

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.

The Shadow of What Was Lost

James Islington · 2014 · Australia 97% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 105,224 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Licanius
shares: chosen one, epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · earnest, speculative

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 Eye of the World

Robert Jordan · 1990 · US 96% match ★ 4.19 Goodreads · 616,392 ratings
Book 1 of 15 in The Wheel of Time
shares: chosen one, epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · earnest, speculative

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.

An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 2015 · US 96% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 365,391 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in An Ember in the Ashes
shares: totalitarian, rebellion, secondary world · easy read, earnest

Laia, a Scholar girl whose brother is arrested for treason, spies for the rebels as a slave at the Martial Empire's brutal military academy, where Elias, its finest soldier, secretly wants out.

The Riddle-Master of Hed

Patricia A. McKillip · 1976 · US 96% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 13,373 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Riddle-Master
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, quest, epic · speculative, earnest

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.

Blood Song

Anthony Ryan · 2011 · UK 96% match ★ 4.41 Goodreads · 94,249 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Raven's Shadow
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, magic, epic · easy read, earnest

A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.

Magician

Raymond E. Feist · 1982 · US 96% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 106,286 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Riftwar Saga
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, quest, epic · earnest, speculative

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.

Graceling

Kristin Cashore · 2008 · US 96% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 485,160 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Graceling Realm
shares: secondary world, quest, young adult · easy read, earnest

Katsa was born with a Grace for killing, and her uncle the king uses her to frighten his enemies, until she meets Po, a foreign prince searching for his kidnapped grandfather, and begins to choose her own fights.

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson · 2006 · US 96% match ★ 4.48 Goodreads · 1,092,782 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Mistborn
shares: rebellion, epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · speculative, easy read

In an ash-choked empire ruled for a thousand years by an immortal tyrant, a street thief with a rare magical gift joins a crew planning the ultimate heist: overthrowing the Lord Ruler.

The Sword of Shannara

Terry Brooks · 1977 · US 96% match ★ 3.77 Goodreads · 103,481 ratings
shares: chosen one, epic fantasy, secondary world, quest · earnest, speculative

Shea Ohmsford, a half-elf in the quiet village of Shady Vale, learns from the druid Allanon that he is the last heir to the Sword of Shannara, the only weapon that can destroy the Warlock Lord.

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb · 1995 · US 96% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 453,796 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy
shares: epic fantasy, magic, epic · earnest, speculative

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 Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson · 2010 · US 96% match ★ 4.66 Goodreads · 732,509 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in The Stormlight Archive
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, magic, epic · earnest, speculative

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.