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Anthony Ryan · 2014 · UK · fantasy
Book 2 of 3 in Raven's Shadow
★ 4.16 Goodreads · 52,954 ratings

A warrior lord must defend his tower and his people against an invasion while questioning everything he was taught about honour.

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The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson · 2010 · US 98% match ★ 4.66 Goodreads · 732,509 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in The Stormlight Archive
shares: epic fantasy, epic, secondary world · 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.

Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher · 2004 · US 98% match ★ 4.06 Hardcover · 556 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Codex Alera
shares: epic fantasy, magic, war, epic · earnest, speculative

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.

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, ensemble, epic · speculative, easy read

A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.

The Pariah

Anthony Ryan · 2021 · UK 97% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 19,666 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Covenant of Steel
shares: brutal, war · easy read, action-packed

Alwyn, raised among the outlaws of the Shavine Forest, is captured after his band is ambushed and sent to the mines, where he learns to read and write, and the road that follows leads him to Lady Evadine Courlain, a captain whose visions speak of a coming apocalypse.

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, secondary world, magic, 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.

The Warded Man

Peter V. Brett · 2008 · US 97% match ★ 4.24 Goodreads · 134,536 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Demon Cycle
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, magic, 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.

Magician

Raymond E. Feist · 1982 · US 97% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 106,286 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Riftwar Saga
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, magic, 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.

Malice

John Gwynne · 2012 · UK 96% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 69,845 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Faithful and the Fallen
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, brutal, 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.

A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin · 1996 · US 96% match ★ 4.45 Goodreads · 2,827,310 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in A Song of Ice and Fire
shares: epic fantasy, secondary world, brutal, epic · speculative, intricate plot

As summer ends in the Seven Kingdoms, the noble houses scheme for the Iron Throne while an exiled princess gathers dragons and something ancient stirs beyond the Wall.

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, secondary world, magic, 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.

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: epic fantasy, secondary world, magic, 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.

Elantris

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

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