Books like The Farthest Shore
The wizard Ged sails to the farthest shores of Earthsea to confront a breach between the living and the dead that threatens to drain all magic from the world.
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Assassin's Apprentice
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 Riddle-Master of Hed
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.
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.
Sabriel
Sabriel, at boarding school south of the Wall in Ancelstierre, receives her father's sword and bells, the tools of the Abhorsen who lays the dead to rest, and crosses into the Old Kingdom, where the dead are rising, to find him.
Reaper Man
Death takes a holiday and starts a farm, while the undead pile up and the Discworld lurches towards a very confused apocalypse.
The Last Unicorn
A unicorn who has lived alone in her lilac wood since the world was young hears that she may be the last of her kind, and leaves to find out what happened to the others.
Powers
Gavir, an enslaved boy in a city-state who has visions of the future, grows up loyal to the household that owns him, until a betrayal sends him in search of freedom, in the third book of the Annals of the Western Shore.
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 Hobbit
A comfort-loving hobbit is recruited by a wizard and thirteen dwarves to steal treasure from a dragon, and the journey transforms him utterly.
The King of Elfland's Daughter
The lord of Erl, told by his parliament that the people wish to be ruled by a magic lord, sends his son Alveric across the border into Elfland to marry the Elf King's daughter.
Elantris
A prince discovers he can heal the mysterious disease destroying his kingdom's magic, but the cure demands a terrible price.
The Sword of Shannara
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.