18 books like Wizard At Large

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The Tangle Box Terry Brooks · 1994 · ★ 3.7 · 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, Holiday, Magic Kingdom of Landover, 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, Holiday, Magic Kingdom of Landover, American Fantasy fiction

The Magic Kingdom of Landover Terry Brooks · 1995 · ★ 4.3 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An acorn falls far from the treeFormer Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday was very proud and quite happy. And why shouldn't he be? The Magic Kingdom which he ruled as High Lord was finally at peace. He was free to lie back and watch as his new daughter grew.And grow she did--by leaps and bournds, shooting through infancy in a matter of months. She took her first steps and learned to swim in the same… Shares: Holiday, Magic Kingdom of Landover, Magic

DERYNI RISING (Chronicles of the Deryni) Katherine Kurtz · 1970 · ★ 4.3 · 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

The dark tower Stephen King · 1990 · ★ 4.5 · 704p · ≈ 23h · Moderate "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

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 Elfstones of Shannara Terry Brooks · 1982 · ★ 4.1 · 619p · ≈ 20h · Moderate 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

The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin · 1971 · ★ 4.1 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure. Shares: American Fantasy fiction, Wizards, Magic, Fantasy fiction

Death Masks Jim Butcher · 2003 · ★ 4.2 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen shroud of Turin. Shares: American Fantasy fiction, Wizards, Fantasy

The barbed coil J. V. Jones · 1997 · ★ 3.9 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Tessa McCamfrey, young and rootless resident of Southern California, has never found much in life that interests her. All of that changes when she stumbles upon a ring that transports her to a distant time and place. There she discovers her unexpected talent: She can create luminous, magical illustrations that have the power to influence others' lives. She becomes involved in the fate of kingdoms… Shares: Wizards, Fantasy

Outlaw of Gor John Norman · 1967 · ★ 3.6 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In this second volume of the Gorean Series, Tarl Cabot finds himself transported back to Counter-Earth from the sedate life he knows as a history professor on Earth. He is glad to be back in his role as a dominant warrior and back in the arms of his true love. Yet, Tarl finds that his name on Gor has been tainted, his city defiled and all those he loves have been made into outcasts. He is no… Shares: American Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction

The Cleft and Other Odd Tales Gahan Wilson · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Collection of stories and drawings by Gahan Wilson. Shares: American Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction

A Spell for Chameleon Piers Anthony · 1977 · ★ 4.2 · 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

Valley of Silence Nora Roberts · 2006 · ★ 4.3 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In the kingdom of Geall, the scholarly Moira has taken up the sword of her people. Now, as queen, she must prepare her subjects for the greatest battle they will ever fight--against an enemy more vicious than any they have seen. For Lilith, the most powerful vampire in the world, has followed the circle of six through time to Geall. Moira also has a personal score to settle. Vampires killed her… Shares: American Fantasy fiction, Wizards, Fantasy fiction

Moon over Soho Ben Aaronovitch · 2011 · ★ 4.1 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The second novel in Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series takes the police constable cum apprentice magician into Soho and the world of jazz, where somebody seems to feed of the musician's vibes, while a black magician is expanding his territority. Shares: Wizards, Magic, Fantasy fiction

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

Swords and Deviltry Fritz Leiber · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The first of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series. A collection of short stories. Shares: American Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

Pyramids Terry Pratchett · 1989 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing… Shares: American Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy

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