Fantasy Books

13 Books like Game of Thrones You Should Read Next

Political intrigue, moral ambiguity, low magic, and a great dose of bloodshed and brutality all combined to create a stunning and indelible epic fantasy series. If you are looking for books like Game of Thrones to relive all the scheming in brothels and gardens, the anguishing cliff hangers, and the sudden shocking deaths of characters

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35 Best Fantasy Books

What is it about fantasy books that has us returning to them over and over again, and pleading with our friends to move our Chosen Ones up even higher among the giants we have previous been celebrating? Yes, J. R. R. Tolkien founded the genre, but hasn't George R. R. Martin created his own fresh

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Patrick Rothfuss Has Hoodwinked the Entire Fantasy Community

  "The ironist is always only making himself seem to be other than he actually is; thus, just as the ironist hides his jest in earnest, his earnestness in jest, so it may occur to him to pretend to be evil, although he is good." Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates

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13 Books like Eragon to Satisfy Your Epic Fantasy Cravings

If you have recently emerged from Christopher Paolini’s epic fantasy novel and are looking for more books like Eragon, I’ve used my considerable magical powers to conjure essential reading for you. I’m going to assume you are probably already familiar with books such as Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, but you might

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30 Books Like Harry Potter You Should Read Next

If you loved Harry Potter and are looking for more magic, more schools of wizardry, and more plucky young heroes and heroines then look no further! Here is a pile of books like Harry Potter guaranteed to bedazzle your imagination into the small hours of the morning long after the candle flame has turned to

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11 Books like Throne of Glass with Strong Female Assassins

If you are looking for books like Throne of Glass then rejoice, because your long search has ended—just like Celaena’s exile in the mines. All of these books are filled with scheming nobility, strong females with hidden powers, assassins, and not a few dashing princes and captains. Oh, and tons and tons of fighting.  

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9 Times the Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman Was Surprisingly Fulfilling

If you have any familiarity with The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman, you know the books seem to thrive on anticlimax and following established generic tropes only to mercilessly flip them on their head and not fulfill the reader’s expectations. Helplessly ensconced inside binary oppositions, I had a deep love/hate relationship with this entire fantasy

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Everything That Made You Fall Madly In Love with The Kingkiller Chronicles

Do you remember where you were the first time you opened the first book of the Kingkiller Chronicles? Do you remember the long nights where you couldn’t stop touching the pages, and the words couldn’t stop touching you? Did you lose your breath as you finished reading the first page?  I know, you passed out

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Drizzt Do’Urden: 9 Things His Enemies Absolutely Hate About Him

“Greetings, Akar Kessell. I am Drizzt Do’Urden, ranger of Gwaeron Windstrom, guardian of Icewind Dale. I have come to kill you.”  image credit: http://helmuttt.deviantart.com/art/Drow-213021149 Drizzt Do'Urden of Icewind Dale As an insane mage, a blood thirsty goblin, or an ice giant just looking for something to stomp into the cold, hard tundra of

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Top 10 Fantasy Books You Should Read Right Now

Are you looking for the top 10 fantasy books? With fantasy writers constantly cranking out candidates for the best fantasy novels in the current Golden Age, as readers we are stuck with a plethora of choices and not enough time to read them all. To my mind, that leaves us with five options. Develop methods

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