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Tad Williams · 1988 · US · fantasy
Book 1 of 3 in Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
★ 3.98 Goodreads · 80,619 ratings

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

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12 books for readers of The Dragonbone Chair

Magician

Raymond E. Feist · 1982 · US 98% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 106,286 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Riftwar Saga
shares: orphan, epic fantasy, secondary world, coming of age · 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 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: good vs evil, 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.

Malice

John Gwynne · 2012 · UK 98% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 69,845 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Faithful and the Fallen
shares: good vs evil, epic fantasy, secondary world, coming of age · 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.

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 · UK 98% match ★ 4.56 Hardcover · 2,044 ratings
shares: good vs evil, epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · earnest, speculative

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.

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb · 1995 · US 98% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 453,796 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy
shares: castle, slow burn, orphan, coming of age · 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.

Blood Song

Anthony Ryan · 2011 · UK 97% match ★ 4.41 Goodreads · 94,249 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Raven's Shadow
shares: slow burn, epic fantasy, secondary world, coming of age · earnest, speculative

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

Dawn of Wonder

Jonathan Renshaw · 2015 · US 97% match ★ 4.35 Goodreads · 26,179 ratings
shares: slow burn, epic fantasy, secondary world, coming of age · earnest, speculative

A boy enters a legendary military academy where the training is brutal and the mysteries of an ancient power lie buried beneath.

Pawn of Prophecy

David Eddings · 1982 · US 97% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 113,420 ratings
Book 1 of 12 in The Belgariad and the Malloreon
shares: good vs evil, epic fantasy, secondary world, epic · speculative, easy read

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.

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 · 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.

Wizard's First Rule

Terry Goodkind · 1994 · US 96% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 255,841 ratings
Book 1 of 15 in The Sword of Truth
shares: good vs evil, 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 Sword of Shannara

Terry Brooks · 1977 · US 96% match ★ 3.77 Goodreads · 103,481 ratings
shares: good vs evil, 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.

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968 · US 96% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 378,902 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Earthsea
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, quest, coming of age · earnest, speculative

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.