FantasyBookRecs

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442 books in our directory

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The Sword of Kaigen

M.L. Wang

A warrior-wife discovers devastating truths about the empire she serves — and must rediscover the power she has spent years suppressing.

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The Tempest Blade

Danielle L. Jensen

The blade was lost generations ago, its power broken, and the order sworn to wield it against the darkness has dwindled to rumors and ceremony — until...

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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow

A girl raised in a museum of curiosities discovers that the doors in an old book are real - and that her whole life is a lie.

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The Thief

Megan Whalen Turner

A thief is pulled from prison and tasked with stealing an object of legend for a king's magus — and is far cleverer than anyone around him suspects. T...

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The Tiger's Daughter

K Arsenault Rivera

Two women—an imperious empress-to-be and a Qorin warrior—are drawn together across a war-torn empire in this lush, slow-burning queer debut.

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The Tombs of Atuan

Ursula K. Le Guin

A girl raised as a high priestess in a subterranean labyrinth encounters a wizard who will force her to question everything she was taught to believe.

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Seth Dickinson

A young accountant plans to destroy the empire that conquered her home from the inside out. Political grimdark at its most rigorous.

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The Traitor Queen

Danielle L. Jensen

Lara's betrayal has shattered the Bridge Kingdom from within, and now she must return to the ruins of what she helped destroy and convince the man she...

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The Trouble with Peace

Joe Abercrombie

Peace is its own kind of war in Abercrombie's gripping sequel, as revolution simmers beneath the Union's brittle calm.

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The Twisted Throne

Danielle L. Jensen

Zarrah Anaphora is imprisoned on Devil's Island, a penal colony designed to ensure that no one leaves alive, and the man responsible for putting her t...

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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna

A lonely witch hired to tutor three magical children discovers the family she didn't know she needed. Warm, funny, romantic, and deeply invested ...

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The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

For Game of Thrones readers who want the sprawling world and the ensemble cast, but a magic system and world-building as inventive as the politics. Th...

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The Way of Shadows

Brent Weeks

A street rat apprentices under the world's most feared assassin in Brent Weeks' grimdark coming-of-age masterpiece.

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The Well of Ascension

Brandon Sanderson

The empire has fallen — now the revolution must govern. Sanderson subverts every expectation of what a 'book two' should be....

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The Wheel of Osheim

Mark Lawrence

Jalan Kendeth races toward the Dead King's army and a Hell that is literally bleeding into the world. Lawrence's darkest and most ambitious volume for...

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The Wicked King

Holly Black

Jude has power now — and the cost of keeping it is far more dangerous than the cost of winning it. Black escalates every tension from Book 1 and ends ...

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The Winner's Crime

Marie Rutkoski

The Winner's Crime is the second volume of Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's Trilogy — and where The Winner's Curse was primarily a novel about a single d...

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The Winner's Curse

Marie Rutkoski

A general's daughter buys a slave at auction on impulse and discovers he is a leader of the conquered people her empire subjugated — and that she...

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The Winner's Kiss

Marie Rutkoski

The Winner's Kiss is the concluding volume of Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's Trilogy — the book that brings together the war, the occupation, the resis...

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The Winter of the Witch

Katherine Arden

The Winternight Trilogy reaches its breathtaking conclusion as Vasya confronts gods, spirits, and the cost of living between two worlds.

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The Wisdom of Crowds

Joe Abercrombie

The Great Change arrives—and it's more brutal than anyone imagined in this devastating finale to the Age of Madness trilogy.

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The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss

Kvothe's story continues across the University, the Adem combat schools, and his most dangerous Chandrian encounter yet.

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The Witch's Heart

Genevieve Gornichec

A Norse mythology retelling told from the perspective of Angrboda, the witch exiled by Odin and loved by Loki.

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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Tamora Pierce

Alanna finds a second home among the desert Bazhir and trains their first female magic apprentices in this quieter Song of the Lioness entry.

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