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Heretical Fishing 2

Haylock Jobson · 534 pages

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The Primal Hunter

Zogarth · 716 pages

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Sufficiently Advanced Magic

Andrew Rowe · 623 pages

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The Blacksmith's Son

Michael G. Manning · 272 pages

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The Duty

D. Rus · 222 pages

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He Who Fights with Monsters 6

Shirtaloon · 564 pages

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Fairy Tail, Vol. 1

Hiro Mashima

UnderdogMagic SystemTrials and TournamentsFast-Paced
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Cursor's Fury

Jim Butcher · 448 pages

When the High Lord of Kalare enters into a dangerous alliance with the Canim, and treachery destroys the Aleran army's command structure, an inexperienced, young Tavi of Calderon leads a poorly equipped legion against the Canim horde.

UnderdogMagic SystemPlot-DrivenFast-Paced
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The Rising of the Shield Hero, Volume 1 (Light Novel)

Aneko Yusagi · 350 pages

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Naofumi soon finds himself alone, penniless, and betrayed

Progression FantasyUnderdogFantasyFast-Paced
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Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja

Masashi Kishimoto · 192 pages

Trials and TournamentsMagic SystemUnderdogFast-Paced
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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

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The Gate Of The Feral Gods

Matt Dinniman · 609 pages

The fourth book in the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series. Obstacles abound on the fifth floor of the dungeon. Read by Jeff Hays. 18 hours, 3 minutes unabridged.

UnderdogMagic SystemPlot-DrivenFast-Paced
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The Rithmatist

Brandon Sanderson · 413 pages

Magic SystemUnderdogPlot-DrivenFantasy
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Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros · 508 pages

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat a

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Eragon

Christopher Paolini · 526 pages

One boy... One dragon... A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is

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Pawn of Prophecy

David Eddings · 276 pages

The first book of the Belgariad.A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADLong ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protec

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Magician: Master

Raymond E. Feist · 499 pages

He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world. There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he to

UnderdogMagic SystemPlot-DrivenFantasy
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Project Daily Grind

Alexey Osadchuk · 437 pages

Progression FantasyUnderdogPlot-DrivenFantasy
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Smart Magic Doctor

Zhui FengDaoChang · 729 pages

The first university student of Qingshan Village, Li Fei, had coincidentally become the successor of the Mysterious Medicine Sect. From then on, he led the villagers to become rich and embarked on the path of a hot-blooded expert!

CultivationProgression FantasyFantasyMale Lead
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The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud · 562 pages

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

UnderdogMagic SystemPlot-DrivenFast-Paced
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Off to Be the Wizard

Scott Meyer · 373 pages

Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little "tweaks" have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he decides instead to travel back in time to the Middle Ages and pose as a wizard. What could possibly go wrong?

UnderdogMagic SystemPlot-DrivenFast-Paced
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The Warded Man

Peter V. Brett · 416 pages

The time has come to stand against the night.As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise--demons who well up from the ground like hellish steam, taking on fearsome form and substance. Sand demons. Wood demons. Wind demons. Flame demons. And gigantic rock demons, the deadliest of all. They possess supernatural strength and powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of ye

UnderdogMagic SystemPlot-DrivenFantasy
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Poison Study

Maria V. Snyder · 409 pages

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace-and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay

UnderdogMagic SystemPlot-DrivenFast-Paced

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