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Fool's Fate

Robin Hobb · 810 pages

A heralded writer of epic fantasy, Robin Hobb has given readers worlds within worlds in her heroic Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. Now she takes the final step in the breathtaking trilogy of the Tawny Man, as the tale of FitzChivalry Farseer comes to an epic end. Rife with boundless adventure and unforgettable characters, Fool's Fate is destined to become a classic of the genre.Assassin, s

Magic SystemSlow-PacedEpic FantasyPolitical Intrigue
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The Dragonbone Chair

Tad Williams · 672 pages

In the peaceful land of Osten Ard, the good king is dying-and a long-dreaded evil is about to be unleashed. Only Simon, a lowly castle scullion apprenticed to a secret order dedicated to halting the coming darkness, can solve the dangerous riddle that offers salvation to the land.

Magic SystemPolitical IntrigueSlow-PacedEpic Fantasy
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The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri · 533 pages

Magic SystemSlow-PacedPolitical IntrigueEpic Fantasy
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The Throne of the Five Winds

S.C. Emmett · 654 pages

Slow-PacedEpic FantasyPolitical IntrigueCharacter-Driven
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The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie · 531 pages

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glo

Political IntrigueMagic SystemEpic FantasyCharacter-Driven
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The Winds of Khalakovo

Bradley P. Beaulieu

Magic SystemPolitical IntrigueEpic FantasySlow-Paced
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A Crown of Swords

Robert Jordan · 784 pages

A fantasy tale in a world where only women are allowed to practice magic. What's more, they will fight to preserve this feminine monopoly. When shepherd Rand al'Thor discovers he has the gift of magic, he is in for trouble. By the author of Lord of Chaos.

Magic SystemSlow-PacedPolitical IntrigueEpic Fantasy
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A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon · 868 pages

Magic SystemPolitical IntrigueSlow-PacedEpic Fantasy
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The Mask of Mirrors

M.A. Carrick · 630 pages

Magic SystemEpic FantasyPolitical IntrigueSlow-Paced
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His Face is the Sun

Michelle Jabès Corpora · 600 pages

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A new reign is coming...Romance, magic, adventure, and horror collide in the start to this lush, epic, Ancient Egyptian inspired trilogy perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Tahereh Mafi, and Sabaa Tahir. Princess. Priestess. Rebel. Thief. Tensions run as hot as the Khamsin winds in the great kingdom of Khetara. Rumors of the pharaoh's mysterious illness abound,

Magic SystemEpic FantasyPolitical IntrigueCharacter-Driven
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Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson · 544 pages

The opening chapter in an epic fantasy masterpiece....Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent.Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the af

Magic SystemSlow-PacedPolitical IntrigueEpic Fantasy
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The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss · 667 pages

My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as "quothe." Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to. The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it's spoken, can mean The Flame, The Thunder, or The Broken Tree. "The Flame" is obvious if you've ever seen me. I have red hair, bright. If I had been born a couple of hundr

Magic SystemSlow-PacedCharacter-DrivenEpic Fantasy
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Fortress in the Eye of Time

C.J. Cherryh · 670 pages

Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose -- to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shadows. that most wonderous of spells, a Shaping. A Shaping in the form of a, young man who will be sent east on the road the old was to old to travel. To right the wrongs of a long-forgotten

Magic SystemSlow-PacedEpic FantasyPolitical Intrigue
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The Atlas Six

Olivie Blake · 384 pages

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiati

Magic SystemSlow-PacedCharacter-DrivenPolitical Intrigue
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Rules of Ascension

David B. Coe · 672 pages

Political IntrigueMagic SystemEpic FantasySlow-Paced
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The Harrowing of Gwynedd

Katherine Kurtz · 384 pages

Magic SystemEpic FantasyPolitical IntrigueSlow-Paced
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Od Magic

Patricia A. McKillip · 317 pages

Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden's gift isolates him from people--and from becoming part of a community.Until the day he receives a personal invitation from the wizard Od

Magic SystemSlow-PacedCharacter-DrivenPolitical Intrigue
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The Bone Shard Daughter

Andrea Stewart · 435 pages

Magic SystemEpic FantasyPolitical IntrigueMultiple POV
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Towers of Midnight

Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson · 880 pages

As the seals on the Dark One's prison crumble and the armies of the Shadow boil out of the Blight, Perrin Aybara, hunted by specters from his past, must seek answers in "Tel'aran'rhiod" and find a way to master the wolf within him--or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life ... as The Tower of Ghenjei awaits.

Magic SystemPolitical IntrigueEpic FantasySlow-Paced
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The Awakened Mage

Karen Miller · 688 pages

Magic SystemPolitical IntrigueEpic FantasyCharacter-Driven
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The Unwilling

Kelly Braffet · 576 pages

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Water Logic

Laurie J. Marks · 332 pages

New government forms in the land of Shaftal. Now soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, weary of war, must fight to ensure revenge and retribution are not their only future. For there are those on each side who cannot forget their losses, and cannot imagine a place for themselves side by side with former foes in an enemy land.

Epic FantasyMagic SystemCharacter-DrivenPolitical Intrigue
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Sunrunner's Fire

Melanie Rawn · 400 pages

Magic SystemPolitical IntrigueEpic FantasySlow-Paced
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Notorious Sorcerer

Davinia Evans · 400 pages

Magic SystemPolitical IntrigueEpic FantasyCharacter-Driven

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