Books like The Worm Ouroboros
On the world of Mercury, the lords of Demonland go to war against King Gorice of Witchland, whose sorcery has carried off Goldry Bluszco, the greatest of them, in prose modelled on the English of the early 1600s.
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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.
The Silmarillion
The pre-history of Middle-earth: the Valar's shaping of the world, the theft of the Silmarils, and the long ruin that ends where The Hobbit begins.
The Eye of the World
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 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 Way of Kings
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.
Gardens of the Moon
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.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
The Dragonbone Chair
A kitchen boy in a crumbling castle discovers he is at the centre of a prophecy when an ancient evil stirs beneath the mountains.
The Pastel City
In the far future, on an Earth littered with the relics of forgotten civilisations, the ageing lord tegeus-Cromis, who thinks himself a better poet than swordsman, is called back to fight when the northmen invade the Pastel City of Viriconium.
Furies of Calderon
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.
Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden
In the Elder Isles, before King Arthur's day, King Casmir of Lyonesse schemes for the throne of all the islands, and shuts his daughter Suldrun in a wild garden when she refuses the marriage he arranges.
The Everlasting
A failed soldier turned historian in the kingdom of Dominion becomes obsessed with Sir Una Everlasting, the orphan knight who died for her queen centuries ago, and the obsession pulls him into her story, which keeps repeating.