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Books like Pawn of Prophecy

David Eddings · 1982 · US · fantasy
Book 1 of 12 in The Belgariad and the Malloreon
★ 4.16 Goodreads · 113,420 ratings

A farm boy raised by his aunt is swept onto a quest across kingdoms when a stolen relic sets an ancient prophecy in motion, and his family turns out to be far older than they seem.

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12 books for readers of Pawn of Prophecy

The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan · 1990 · US 98% match ★ 4.19 Goodreads · 616,392 ratings
Book 1 of 15 in The Wheel of Time
shares: prophecy, chosen one, good vs evil, epic · speculative, easy read

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.

The Shadow of What Was Lost

James Islington · 2014 · Australia 98% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 105,224 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Licanius
shares: prophecy, chosen one, epic fantasy, epic · speculative, earnest

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.

Eragon

Christopher Paolini · 2002 · US 98% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,993,222 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Inheritance Cycle
shares: chosen one, good vs evil, epic fantasy, epic · easy read, 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.

Malice

John Gwynne · 2012 · UK 98% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 69,845 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Faithful and the Fallen
shares: prophecy, good vs evil, epic fantasy, epic · speculative, easy read

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.

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, good vs evil, epic fantasy, epic · speculative, easy read

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 Sword of Shannara

Terry Brooks · 1977 · US 97% match ★ 3.77 Goodreads · 103,481 ratings
shares: chosen one, good vs evil, epic fantasy · speculative, story-driven

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.

The Dragonbone Chair

Tad Williams · 1988 · US 97% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 80,619 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
shares: good vs evil, epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · speculative, easy read

A kitchen boy in a crumbling castle discovers he is at the centre of a prophecy when an ancient evil stirs beneath the mountains.

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 · speculative, easy read

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 Book of Three

Lloyd Alexander · 1964 · US 96% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 85,046 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Chronicles of Prydain
shares: good vs evil, epic fantasy, quest · easy read, speculative

Taran, an assistant pig-keeper in the land of Prydain who dreams of being a hero, chases after the oracular pig Hen Wen when she runs away, and is swept into a war against the Horned King.

Elantris

Brandon Sanderson · 2005 · US 96% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 375,928 ratings
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · speculative, easy read

A prince discovers he can heal the mysterious disease destroying his kingdom's magic, but the cure demands a terrible price.

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, ensemble, epic · speculative, easy read

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.

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 · UK 96% match ★ 4.56 Hardcover · 2,044 ratings
shares: good vs evil, epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · speculative, earnest

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.