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The Tangle Box Terry Brooks · 1994 · ★ 3.6 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB...Everything should have been quiet and pleasant for Ben Holiday, the former Chicago lawyer who became sovereign of the Magic Kingdom of Landover. But it wasn't.Horris Kew, conjurer, confidence-man, and trickster, had returned to Landover from Ben's own world. Alas, Horris had not returned of his own volition--he had been sent by the Gorse, a sorcerer of great evil, whom… Shares Ben Holiday, Magic Kingdom of Landover, Holiday, American Fantasy fiction

Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold! Terry Brooks · 1984 · ★ 3.7 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate After Ben Holiday purchased Landover, he discovered the magic kingdom had some problems. The Barons refused to recognize a king and the peasants were without hope. To make matters worse, Ben learned that he had to duel to the death with the Iron Mask, the terrible lord of the demons--a duel which no human could hope to win....From the Paperback edition. Shares Ben Holiday, Magic Kingdom of Landover, Holiday, American Fantasy fiction

DERYNI RISING (Chronicles of the Deryni) Katherine Kurtz · 1970 · ★ 4.5 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In the kingdom of Gwynedd, the mysterious forces of magic and the superior power of the Church combine to challenge the rule of young Kelson. Now the fate of the Deryni -- a quasi-mortal race of sorcerers -- and, indeed, the fate of all the Eleven Kingdoms, rests on Kelson's ability to quash the rebellion by any means necessary . . . including the proscribed use of magic! Shares American Fantasy fiction, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction

Fool's Errand

Fool's Errand Robin Hobb · 2001 · ★ 4.4 · 666p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Robin Hobb has emerged as one of today's foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her most popular heroes in the first book of what promises to be her most spectacular trilogy yet. Fool's ErrandFor fifteen years FitzChivalry Farseer has lived in self-imposed exile, assumed to be dead by almost all who once cared about him. But that is about to change when destiny seeks… Shares Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

The dark tower Stephen King · 1990 · ★ 4.5 · 720p · ≈ 24h · Challenging "Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room - really a chamber of horrors - in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes.… Shares American Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy

The Edge of the Knife H. Beam Piper · 2006 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Light Ed Chalmers, history professor, had a real problem in his classes: he kept blurting out events that hadn't happened yet. Of course that made him the butt of jokes and ridicule, and the Dean wanted him out despite his tenure. But Ed had other ideas ... especially when his predictions started coming true! Shares Magic, Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction

The Magical Monarch of Mo L. Frank Baum · 1903 · 91p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Fourteen tales about the magical land of Mo and the people and animals who live there. Shares Wizards, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

Little Wizard stories of Oz L. Frank Baum · 1914 · ★ 3.7 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Six tales present further the adventures of Dorothy and Toto, Ozma, Tiktok, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Tin Woodman, and other characters from the land of Oz. Shares Wizards, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

The Face in the Frost John Bellairs · 1969 · ★ 3.8 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate *The Face in the Frost* is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms of wizards, stymied by a power that is beyond their control. A tall, skinny misfit of a wizard named Prospero lives in the Southern Kingdom—a patchwork of feuding duchies and small manors, all loosely loyal to one figurehead king. Both he and an improbable adventurer… Shares Wizards, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

The Darkness That Comes Before

The Darkness That Comes Before R. Scott Bakker · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 589p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth—it's language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals—the kind of all-embracing universe that has thrilled readers of Stephen R Donaldson and George… Shares Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction

The Blade Itself

The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie · 2001 · ★ 4.5 · 531p · ≈ 17h · Moderate 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… Shares Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

A Spell for Chameleon Piers Anthony · 1977 · ★ 4.5 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs, dragons and basiliks.But poor Bink alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and fast - he would be exiled. The Good Magician Humfrey was convined that Bink did indeed have magic, magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or Good Magician Humfrey… Shares Magic, Fantasy

House of Many Ways Diana Wynne Jones · 2008 · ★ 4.3 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The sequel to Howl's Moving CastleWhen Charmain Baker agreed to look after her great-uncle's house, she thought she was getting blissful, parent-free time to read. She didn't realize that the house bent space and time, and she did not expect to become responsible for an extremely magical stray dog and a muddled young apprentice wizard. Now, somehow, she's been targeted by a terrifying creature… Shares Wizards, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

The battle for the Brightstone Thompson, Paul B. · 2014 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mikal, the young wizard, and his friend Lyra do battle on land and sea as they continue to seek the magical talking head, Orry, and prevent renegade wizard Harlano from finding and destroying the Brightstone and ending all magic. Shares Wizards, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

Roar of the Thunder Dragon Tracey West · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Light Shares Wizards, Magic, Fantasy fiction with this book.

Search for the Lightning Dragon Tracey West · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Light Shares Wizards, Magic, Fantasy fiction with this book.

Power of the Fire Dragon Tracey West · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 92p · ≈ 3h · Light When the king decides to take the dragons to Arkwood to visit Queen Rose, Rori, Drake, and their dragons are left behind--so when the evil wizard Maldred attacks the castle riding a giant four-headed dragon that spits poison, the two young dragon masters and their dragons are forced to defend the castle by themselves. Shares Wizards, Magic, Fantasy fiction

The Elfstones of Shannara Terry Brooks · 1982 · ★ 4.1 · 619p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Ancient, ultimate evil threaterned the Elves and the Races of Man. For the Ellcrys, the tree created by long-lost elven magic, was dying, losing the spell of Forbidding that locked the hordes of ravening Demons away from Earth. Already the Reaper, most fearsome of demons, was free. Only one source of protection was powerful enough to stop it: The Elfstones of Shannara. The stones and the right… Shares American Fantasy fiction, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

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