Fantasy CompassA Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses
The series begins with a mortal entering a dangerous faerie realm and expands into war, court politics, and new romantic leads.
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A Song of Ice and Fire
A multi-generational epic in which noble houses, religious movements, war, and returning magic reshape the struggle for Westeros.
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Fantasy CompassAlcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Six illustrated adventures follow Alcatraz Smedry and his allies through a hidden conflict over information, history, and the Free Kingdoms.
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Fantasy CompassA Discovery of Witches
All Souls
Historian Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont investigate an enchanted manuscript and the origins of supernatural species across modern and historical settings.
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Fantasy CompassThe Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Amina al-Sirafi
Amina al-Sirafi returns to the sea for dangerous jobs that combine maritime history, supernatural threats, faith, and family.
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Fantasy CompassSufficiently Advanced Magic
Arcane Ascension
Corin Cadence returns from a tower trial with an unusual attunement and enters an academy where careful experimentation exposes wider political and divine mysteries.
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Fantasy CompassBeware of Chicken
Beware of Chicken
Jin Rou leaves sect politics behind to farm, but his animals, neighbors, and accidental teachings create a warm progression story with expanding consequences.
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Fantasy CompassThe Blacktongue Thief
Blacktongue
The published books explore a damaged secondary world through a thief's journey and a prequel about the wars that reshaped it.
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Fantasy CompassFrom Blood and Ash
Blood and Ash
Poppy's restricted life as the Maiden opens into a conflict over Atlantia, gods, identity, and the powers concealed by her kingdom.
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Fantasy CompassRed Sister
Book of the Ancestor
Nona Grey's education at the Convent of Sweet Mercy becomes part of a wider conflict over faith, power, friendship, and survival.
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Fantasy CompassThe House in the Cerulean Sea
Cerulean Chronicles
An isolated orphanage becomes the center of a broader struggle over how magical children are treated by institutions and society.
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Fantasy CompassUnsouled
Cradle
Lindon leaves Sacred Valley and advances through a tightly escalating cultivation system alongside allies whose ambitions eventually reach world-scale stakes.
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Fantasy CompassHouse of Earth and Blood
Crescent City
Bryce Quinlan investigates violence in Crescent City as personal loss expands into conflicts among angels, fae, demons, and imperial rulers.
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Fantasy CompassThe Serpent and the Wings of Night
Crowns of Nyaxia
Connected duologies follow human and vampire protagonists whose romances become entangled with court power and divine bargains.
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Fantasy CompassThe Colour of Magic
Discworld
Forty-one novels explore the Discworld through several character arcs and many valid entry points.
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Fantasy CompassDungeon Crawler Carl
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Carl and Princess Donut descend through a televised dungeon where survival depends on game mechanics, improvisation, and resisting the system exploiting them.
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Earthsea
Earthsea begins with Ged's coming of age and expands across different protagonists, eras, and perspectives.
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Fantasy CompassEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Emily Wilde
Cambridge scholar Emily Wilde documents faerie species while fieldwork repeatedly pulls her into the politics and dangers she studies.
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Fantasy CompassQuicksilver
Fae & Alchemy
Saeris Fane crosses from a dying desert realm into an icy fae conflict, where alchemy and her alliance with Kingfisher alter the balance of power.
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Fantasy CompassThe Lies of Locke Lamora
Gentleman Bastard
A planned seven-book sequence following con artist Locke Lamora through crime, politics, love, and war.
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Fantasy CompassHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter
Seven novels follow Harry Potter through school years that steadily become darker, more political, and more demanding.
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Fantasy CompassHe Who Fights with Monsters
He Who Fights with Monsters
Jason Asano adapts to a secondary world through unusual abilities, outspoken ideals, and a growing team, while conflicts expand across worlds and cosmic powers.
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Fantasy CompassThe Will of the Many
Hierarchy
Vis enters the Catenan Academy under a false identity and investigates the system that powers the Hierarchy while concealing his own political past.
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Fantasy CompassNorthern Lights
His Dark Materials
Lyra's search for missing children opens into a conflict spanning worlds and asking increasingly demanding moral and philosophical questions.
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Fantasy CompassHowl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle
The books move between protagonists and places in Ingary while retaining playful logic, fairy-tale reversals, and recurring characters.
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Legends & Lattes
Connected cozy fantasies in a traditional secondary world, centered on everyday work and found family.
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Fantasy CompassDivine Rivals
Letters of Enchantment
Two young writers develop an anonymous correspondence while reporting on a conflict whose divine forces reshape their lives.
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Fantasy CompassGardens of the Moon
Malazan Book of the Fallen
Armies, mages, ascendants, and ancient peoples collide across continents in an epic built on scale, ambiguity, and cumulative revelation.
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Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
A patient secondary-world trilogy about a divided kingdom, buried history, ancient powers, and an ordinary young man drawn into a much larger conflict.
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Fantasy CompassMistborn: The Final Empire
Mistborn: The Original Trilogy
A three-book arc that begins as a rebellion and expands into political reconstruction and world-scale stakes.
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Fantasy CompassThe Alloy of Law
Mistborn: Wax & Wayne
Four novels follow lawman Waxillium Ladrian and Wayne through conspiracies in an industrializing Scadrial centuries after the original trilogy.
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Fantasy CompassWhen the Moon Hatched
Moonfall
An assassin tied to a rebellion becomes entangled with a powerful warrior and a forgotten past in a world where dragons become moons.
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Fantasy CompassMother of Learning: ARC 1
Mother of Learning
Zorian repeatedly relives one month at a magical academy, using each reset to uncover a conspiracy and develop abilities the normal timeline denied him.
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Fantasy CompassNevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Nevermoor
Morrigan Crow is taken from a life defined by a deadly curse into Nevermoor, where friendship, trials, and dangerous powers reshape her future.
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Fantasy CompassNinth House
Ninth House
Alex Stern monitors the magical practices of Yale's elite societies while investigating crimes protected by money, secrecy, and ritual.
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Fantasy CompassAru Shah and the End of Time
Pandava Quintet
Aru Shah and the other Pandava sisters cross the Otherworld to confront mythic threats while learning what heroism and family demand from them.
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Fantasy CompassThe Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy discovers his divine parentage and repeatedly leaves Camp Half-Blood on quests shaped by Greek myth and contemporary humor.
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Fantasy CompassThe Riddle-Master of Hed
Riddle-Master
Morgon of Hed follows the unanswered riddles around his birth and destiny through a secondary world where knowledge and rulership carry magical force.
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Fantasy CompassRivers of London
Rivers of London
Peter Grant joins a tiny supernatural police unit and encounters ghosts, river gods, magical crime, and a changing modern London.
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Fantasy CompassThe Tainted Cup
Shadow of the Leviathan
Ana Dolabra and Dinios Kol solve engineered murders and conspiracies while monstrous leviathans threaten the empire's borders.
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Fantasy CompassSix of Crows
Six of Crows
A crew from Ketterdam attempts a prison break whose political and magical consequences carry into a concluding second novel.
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Fantasy CompassAmari and the Night Brothers
Supernatural Investigations
Amari Peters enters the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and discovers that solving her brother's disappearance requires mastering a world that already mistrusts her.
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Fantasy CompassFireborne
The Aurelian Cycle
Former aristocrat Lee and lowborn Annie train as dragon riders in a republic born from revolution, then face choices that test family, loyalty, and the new regime's ideals.
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Fantasy CompassKings of the Wyld
The Band
Each novel follows a different mercenary band through dangerous quests, strained friendships, and a world built around adventurer fame.
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Fantasy CompassThe Shadow of the Gods
The Bloodsworn Saga
Three warriors pursue different goals across Vigrid until old gods, bloodlines, and approaching war pull their stories together.
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Fantasy CompassThe Bridge Kingdom
The Bridge Kingdom
Three connected couples navigate rival kingdoms whose trade routes, alliances, and wars make romance inseparable from political loyalty.
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The Broken Earth
Three tightly connected novels combine planetary catastrophe with intimate family trauma and systemic oppression.
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Fantasy CompassThe Rage of Dragons
The Burning
Tau devotes himself to becoming an exceptional fighter inside a society built for endless war and severe social hierarchy.
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Fantasy CompassThe Jasmine Throne
The Burning Kingdoms
An imprisoned princess and a maidservant with forbidden power form an alliance that threatens an empire and transforms both women.
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Fantasy CompassThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia
A complete sequence of largely self-contained adventures in Narnia, written for children but widely read across ages.
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Fantasy CompassThe City of Brass
The Daevabad Trilogy
A healer from eighteenth-century Cairo enters Daevabad, where royal politics, inherited violence, and competing identities reshape a magical kingdom.
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The Dagger and the Coin
A five-book political epic about banking, empire, propaganda, belief, and the people caught inside institutions of power.
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The Dandelion Dynasty
Four large novels follow the rise and transformation of a new dynasty across generations, wars, inventions, and competing political ideals.
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Fantasy CompassOrconomics
The Dark Profit Saga
A disgraced hero joins an unlikely party in a world where quests, monster loot, and war have become parts of a speculative economy.
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Fantasy CompassFourth Wing
The Empyrean
A planned five-book series following Violet Sorrengail through a lethal dragon-rider college and expanding war.
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Fantasy CompassAssassin's Apprentice
The Farseer Trilogy
The first Realm of the Elderlings trilogy follows Fitz from childhood into dangerous royal service.
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Fantasy CompassThe Summer Tree
The Fionavar Tapestry
Five people from Toronto enter Fionavar, a world of gods, legends, and recurring stories, and become part of a conflict against an awakened power.
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Fantasy CompassThe Blade Itself
The First Law Trilogy
A character-driven trilogy about warriors, soldiers, nobles, and manipulators whose motives resist heroic fantasy conventions.
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Fantasy CompassThe Cruel Prince
The Folk of the Air
Mortal Jude pursues security through influence in a dangerous faerie court, tying her fate to Prince Cardan and a succession crisis.
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Fantasy CompassFoundryside
The Founders Trilogy
A thief who can hear enchanted objects becomes part of a conflict over scriving, the magical technology controlled by powerful merchant houses.
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Fantasy CompassThe City We Became
The Great Cities
New York's boroughs take human form and must cooperate against an extradimensional force attacking the city's people and identity.
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The Green Bone Saga
Three novels follow the Kaul family across a generational struggle for clan power and national identity.
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Fantasy CompassEragon
The Inheritance Cycle
Eragon bonds with the dragon Saphira and grows from an isolated teenager into a central figure in resistance against an immortal king.
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The Kingkiller Chronicle
Kvothe narrates the making of his reputation, from childhood and loss to magical education, performance, and dangerous research.
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Fantasy CompassA Marvellous Light
The Last Binding
Three connected romances uncover a magical conspiracy across Edwardian England while each volume shifts setting and central pair.
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Fantasy CompassShip of Magic
The Liveship Traders
The Vestrit family's struggle over a liveship expands across merchants, pirates, enslaved people, sea serpents, and a changing coast.
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Fantasy CompassGideon the Ninth
The Locked Tomb
Necromancers and their sworn cavaliers become entangled in the survival of a deathless empire and the histories it has suppressed.
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Fantasy CompassA Shadow in Summer
The Long Price Quartet
Four politically and emotionally focused novels following characters whose personal choices reshape nations over many years.
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The Lord of the Rings
A complete epic published in three volumes, following a fellowship and the wider struggle against Sauron.
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Fantasy CompassThe Magicians
The Magicians
Quentin Coldwater studies magic at Brakebills and discovers that entering the fantasy world of his childhood does not resolve the dissatisfaction he carried into it.
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Fantasy CompassHawkwood's Voyage
The Monarchies of God
Five fast-moving novels in which rival kingdoms, religious conflict, military campaigns, and exploration collide.
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Fantasy CompassSabriel
The Old Kingdom
Across generations, Abhorsens cross between Life and Death to bind dangerous spirits and defend a kingdom divided by magic.
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Fantasy CompassThe Poppy War
The Poppy War
A military-school beginning gives way to a brutal conflict shaped by twentieth-century Chinese history.
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Fantasy CompassThe Primal Hunter
The Primal Hunter
Jake Thayne embraces the dangerous freedom of a transformed Earth, building skills and alliances while pursuing advancement across an expanding multiverse.
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Fantasy CompassThe Rithmatist
The Rithmatist
The first novel follows a non-magical student investigating disappearances at a school where drawn defenses and creatures become real.
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Fantasy CompassThe Priory of the Orange Tree
The Roots of Chaos
A cycle of self-contained stories set centuries apart in the same richly developed world.
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Fantasy CompassA Deadly Education
The Scholomance
Galadriel Higgins tries to survive a school full of monsters without becoming the destructive sorceress everyone expects, then confronts the system that made survival so unequal.
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Fantasy CompassOne Dark Window
The Shepherd King
Elspeth and her allies seek the Providence Cards needed to lift a kingdom's blight while magic exacts a personal cost.
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Fantasy CompassThe Way of Kings
The Stormlight Archive
Five main novels complete the first large arc of a planned ten-book epic, with later volumes still to come.
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Fantasy CompassFool's Errand
The Tawny Man Trilogy
An older Fitz is drawn from isolation into a royal disappearance, renewed bonds, and the political consequences of old choices.
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Fantasy CompassThe Bone Ships
The Tide Child Trilogy
Joron Twiner joins Lucky Meas aboard a ship of the condemned and becomes part of a mission that could change an endless naval war.
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Fantasy CompassThe Wandering Inn
The Wandering Inn
Erin Solstice opens an inn in a dangerous fantasy world, and her relationships connect adventurers, rulers, species, and conflicts across a continually widening cast.
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Fantasy CompassDaughter of No Worlds
The War of Lost Hearts
A survivor seeking magical training and the former warrior assigned to teach her become central to a widening conflict over slavery, empire, and forbidden power.
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The Wheel of Time
A village flight from supernatural danger grows into a continent-spanning struggle shaped by prophecy, politics, and a deeply built magical world.
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Fantasy CompassThe Bear and the Nightingale
The Winternight Trilogy
Three novels follow Vasya from a remote village into wider political and supernatural conflict.
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Fantasy CompassThe Last Wish
The Witcher
Collections introduce Geralt before a five-book saga, while later standalone novels return to other points in his life.
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Fantasy CompassThrone of Glass
Throne of Glass
Celaena Sardothien enters a royal competition and gradually becomes part of a much larger struggle involving lost identities, magic, courts, and war.
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Fantasy CompassCan't Spell Treason Without Tea
Tomes & Tea
Reyna and Kianthe leave the queen's service for a life together, but their shop near dragon country does not place them beyond royal or magical trouble.
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Fantasy CompassTristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Tristan Strong
Tristan Strong crosses into Alke and must use stories, courage, and new alliances to repair damage between worlds and face his own grief.
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Fantasy CompassVampire Academy
Vampire Academy
Dhampir trainee Rose Hathaway protects her Moroi best friend Lissa while school rivalries, royal politics, and the Strigoi threat intensify.
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Fantasy CompassThe Dragonet Prophecy
Wings of Fire
Successive dragon protagonists navigate war and political conflict across Pyrrhia and Pantala, with each arc widening the world's cultures and threats.
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Fantasy CompassZodiac Academy: The Awakening
Zodiac Academy
Twin sisters enter a fae academy and challenge four powerful heirs while elemental training, romance, and a dynastic conflict grow across the series.
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