Books like Words of Radiance
A slave-soldier and a scholar-king fight to unite their world as ancient, godlike storms return to destroy everything.
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The Black Prism
A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.
Elantris
A prince discovers he can heal the mysterious disease destroying his kingdom's magic, but the cure demands a terrible price.
Mistborn: The Final Empire
In an ash-choked empire ruled for a thousand years by an immortal tyrant, a street thief with a rare magical gift joins a crew planning the ultimate heist: overthrowing the Lord Ruler.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
Magician
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.
Pawn of Prophecy
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 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 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.
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.
Malice
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 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 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.