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Jim Butcher · 2004 · US · fantasy
Book 1 of 6 in Codex Alera
★ 4.06 Hardcover · 556 ratings

In Alera, a realm modelled on Rome where nearly everyone commands elemental spirits called furies, Tavi, a fifteen-year-old shepherd with no furycrafting at all, is caught up in a plot against the First Lord as a horde of Marat threatens his valley.

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Blood Song

Anthony Ryan · 2011 · UK 98% match ★ 4.41 Goodreads · 94,249 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Raven's Shadow
shares: epic fantasy, magic, war, epic · earnest, speculative

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

The Black Prism

Brent Weeks · 2010 · US 97% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 134,867 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Lightbringer
shares: epic fantasy, magic, 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.

Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson · 1999 · Canada 97% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 145,602 ratings
Book 1 of 10 in Malazan Book of the Fallen
shares: epic fantasy, magic, series starter, epic · speculative, deep world-building

The Malazan Empire turns its armies on Darujhistan, the last free city of Genabackis, and Ganoes Paran, a young noble drawn into the games of the gods, is sent to command the Bridgeburners, a battered company the empress may want dead.

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, magic, war, 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.

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, magic, war, 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.

Promise of Blood

Brian McClellan · 2013 · US 96% match ★ 4.07 Hardcover · 538 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Powder Mage
shares: magic, series starter, war, military · speculative, earnest

Field Marshal Tamas leads a coup against the king of Adro and sends the royal cabal of mages to the guillotine, but their dying words hint at a threat from the gods, and his son Taniel, a powder mage, and Adamat, a retired detective, set out to learn what it means.

The Shadow of What Was Lost

James Islington · 2014 · Australia 96% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 105,224 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Licanius
shares: epic fantasy, magic, series starter, 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 City of Brass

S. A. Chakraborty · 2017 · US 96% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 168,276 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Daevabad Trilogy
shares: epic fantasy, magic, series starter, epic · speculative, deep world-building

Nahri, a young con artist in eighteenth-century Cairo who does not believe in magic, accidentally summons Dara, a fierce djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism and is swept off to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, and its feuding royal court.

Eragon

Christopher Paolini · 2002 · US 96% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,993,222 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Inheritance Cycle
shares: epic fantasy, adventure, series starter, epic · earnest, speculative

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 Shadow of the Gods

John Gwynne · 2021 · UK 96% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 120,598 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Bloodsworn Saga
shares: epic fantasy, series starter, war, epic · earnest, speculative

Three hundred years after the gods of Vigrið destroyed one another, Orka, a farmer's wife with a violent past, Varg, an escaped thrall hunting his sister's killer, and Elvar, a warlord's daughter with a war-band, are drawn into a hunt for the gods' remains.

The Warded Man

Peter V. Brett · 2008 · US 96% match ★ 4.24 Goodreads · 134,536 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Demon Cycle
shares: epic fantasy, magic, coming of age, epic · earnest, speculative

Every night demons rise from the ground to hunt and humanity cowers behind magical wards; after his mother's death, eleven-year-old Arlen Bales leaves his village sure that people should fight back, while an herb gatherer's apprentice and a young jongleur find their own ways to survive.

Malice

John Gwynne · 2012 · UK 95% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 69,845 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Faithful and the Fallen
shares: epic fantasy, war, coming of age, epic · earnest, speculative

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.