Books like The Wise Man’s Fear
12 books with a reading profile close to The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Escapist; a moderate read.
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Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss Collection 3 Books Set
Also escapist · narrative, literary
This set follows Kvothe, an orphan who survives life as a beggar in Tarbean before gaining entry to the University to study sympathy, a logic-based system of magic.
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
narrative, literary
Set in 1920s Mexico, the story follows Casiopea Tun, a young woman living a life of servitude in her grandfather’s house.
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The Change
narrative, literary
Set in the wealthy enclave of Mattauk, New York, this novel follows three women whose bodies begin to manifest supernatural abilities as they enter menopause.
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The Bright Sword
by Lev Grossman
narrative, literary
Lev Grossman retells the Arthurian legend from the point of view of Collum, a young man who arrives at Camelot after the king's fall.
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The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
narrative, literary
Orquídea Divina is the matriarch of a family in Florida with a home full of magic, who invites her descendants to her funeral and promises each an inheritance.
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The Tombs of Atuan
Also escapist · narrative, literary
Tenar is chosen as a young girl to be the new high priestess of the Nameless Ones, a set of ancient powers worshipped in the desert of Atuan.
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Blood Over Bright Haven
by M.L. Wang
narrative, literary
Scilla Highborn is the first woman admitted into the High Circle of mages in Bright Haven, a city powered by magical energy harvested through precise mathematical equations.
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The Teller of Small Fortunes
by Julie Leong
narrative, literary
Tao is a young woman who works as a fortune-teller, reading small fortunes at markets, and who has left her past behind.
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Juniper & Thorn
by Ava Reid
narrative, literary
Set in a fictionalized nineteenth-century Odessa, this gothic fairy tale follows Marlinchen, the youngest of three sisters who live under the suffocating control of their father, a wizard named Zmey.
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Tigana
narrative, literary
Set in a Mediterranean-inspired peninsula called the Palm, the narrative centers on a group of rebels attempting to overthrow two rival sorcerer-kings, Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbentain.
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The Night Circus
Also escapist · narrative, literary
Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair are two young illusionists tethered to Le Cirque des Rêves, a traveling venue of monochrome tents that appears without warning and opens only at night.
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The Deep
narrative, literary
Inspired by a song by the group clipping., this novella follows the wajinru, water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard during the Atlantic slave trade.
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