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  • Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.This is a collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection THE LAST WISH...
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  heroic-fantasy  historical  magic  medieval
  • Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times...
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  heroic-fantasy  magic  medieval  mystery
  • Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

    Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away...
  • Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.This is a collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection THE LAST WISH...
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  heroic-fantasy  historical  magic  medieval
  • Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey

    Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from the forces of a master who wields a dark, forbidding magic. And if either Vanyel or Yfandes falters, both Valdemar and its Herald-Mage must pay the ultimate price...
  • The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

    The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher Geralt is a witcher: guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender, in dark times, against some of the most frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task, now, is to protect Ciri...
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  heroic-fantasy  historical  magic  medieval
  • The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

    The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good..
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  historical  magic  medieval  myths
  • The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

    The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good..
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  historical  magic  medieval  myths
  • Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher.For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf...
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  historical  magic  medieval  myths
  • Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay

    Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist...
  • Sabriel by Garth Nix

    Sabriel by Garth Nix

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him...
  • Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out...
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  heroic-fantasy  historical  magic  medieval
  • The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

    The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) published by Arkham House posthumously in 1943 in the collection Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, it was completed on January 22, 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime...
  • The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson

    The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    "A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication."--Los Angeles TimesTwice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange otherworld where magic worked. Twice before he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land.Now he was back--to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord Foul. The Lords were besieged and helpless...
  • Night's Master by Tanith Lee

    Night's Master by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    NIGHT'S MASTER is the first book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales...
  • City of Bones by Martha Wells

    City of Bones by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Where once great galleons roamed the sea,sand ships now traverse the Great Waste,and a glittering chain of city-statesdots the desert that has no end... And the greatest city of them all is Charisat: Imperial seat and wonder of wonders, a great monolithic structure towering over the desert...
  • The Road With No Return by Andrzej Sapkowski

    The Road With No Return by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A Fan Translation.In the heart of the Amell mountains, in the pass of Klamat, lives a monstrosity which terrorizes the surrounding villages: the Kotchei. Visenna, druidess of the Circle of Mayen and magician, is the only one who can defeat this dreadful creature. On the way, she helps Korin, a fearless warrior who ends up accompanying him on his mission...
  • The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

    The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. While the land of Delain mourns, the evil wizard Flagg, hatches an unscrupulous plot, which sees the King's eldest son Peter imprisoned for his father's murder, and the youngest son inherit the throne. Only Peter knows the truth about his own innocence and the evil that is Flagg...
  • Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock

    Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Elric of Melniboné is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which Elric of Melniboné is the first installment...
  • The Gunslinger by Stephen King

    The Gunslinger by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 81 ratings
    The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil...
  • The Ragwitch by Garth Nix

    The Ragwitch by Garth Nix

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the author of Abhorsen comes classic fantasy set in a world dominated by the Ragwitch, a being of sinister, destructive intent.Quiet, easygoing Paul never expected to be cast in the role of savior...
  • Berserk, Vol. 12 by Kentaro Miura

    Berserk, Vol. 12 by Kentaro Miura

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Band of the Hawks’ rescue of their leader, Griffith, has brought them no ease. Broken beyond healing, a frail ghost of his former glory, Griffith is now more an object of pity than a man, and the Hawks, who’ve grimly hung together under duress and death during his absence, are now on the verge of splintering to the winds...
  • Berserk Deluxe Edition Volume 1 by Kentaro Miura, Jason DeAngelis

    Berserk Deluxe Edition Volume 1 by Kentaro Miura, Jason DeAngelis

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Have you got the Guts? Kentaro Miura's Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and anime fanatics since 1989, creating an international legion of hardcore devotees and inspiring a plethora of TV series, feature films, and video games...
  • Berserk, Vol. 13 by Kentaro Miura

    Berserk, Vol. 13 by Kentaro Miura

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Band of the Hawk may have been the most formidable band of fighters around, but when matched up against an army of abyssal monstrosities, earthly fighting skills don t amount to a hill of beans...
  • Berserk, Vol. 10 by Kentaro Miura

    Berserk, Vol. 10 by Kentaro Miura

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Warrior supreme Guts has returned, and just in time to save the weakened Band of the Hawk from certain destruction… and to form an intimate bond with the beautiful warrior Casca. But job one is to find a way to free Griffith, the Hawks' leader, from the dank dungeons and round-the-clock tortures of the Hawks' former benefactor, the King of Midland...
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    dark  epic  grim-dark  historical  magic  medieval  mystery  paranormal
  • Berserk, Vol. 8 by Kentaro Miura

    Berserk, Vol. 8 by Kentaro Miura

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    he century-spanning war between Midland and Chuder continues unabated. The two warring kingdoms, vying for supremacy, launch headfirst into what will become the final battle. Leading the Midland forces are the Band of the Hawk, lead by the charismatic Griffith, with the fearless Guts as his trusted champion...
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    dark  epic  grim-dark  historical  magic  medieval  mystery  paranormal
  • Berserk, Vol. 9 by Kentaro Miura

    Berserk, Vol. 9 by Kentaro Miura

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Griffith, charismatic leader of the elite mercenary Band of the Hawk, has seen better days. His fearless champion, Guts, has left the Band, defeating Griffith in personal combat as his ticket out. With his judgment clouded by this unthinkable humiliation, Griffith eases his pain in the arms of the daughter of Midland’s king...
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    dark  epic  fae  grim-dark  historical  magic  medieval  mystery
  • Berserk, Vol. 5 by Kentaro Miura

    Berserk, Vol. 5 by Kentaro Miura

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    He is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a warrior of legendary prowess — relentless, fearless, merciless. As cold and brutal as the iron of the massive sword he wields. Bent on revenge against the unholy forces that have branded him for sacrifice, but especially on Griffith, one of the demon lords of the Godhand...
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    dark  epic  grim-dark  historical  magic  medieval  mystery  paranormal
  • Berserk, Vol. 7 by Kentaro Miura

    Berserk, Vol. 7 by Kentaro Miura

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Two feudal kingdoms, Midland and Chuder, battle for supremacy in what will become the final clash in a century-long struggle. Spearheading the Midland forces is the Band of the Hawk, a legendary cadre of elite mercenaries led by the charismatic Griffith and with the fearless Guts as its berserker champion...
  • Berserk, Vol. 6 by Kentaro Miura

    Berserk, Vol. 6 by Kentaro Miura

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Back in the day, Guts the Black Swordsman was a top slayer for The Band of the Hawk, an elite mercenary unit led by Griffith, whose calm demeanor and callow beauty belied his fighting prowess and steel will...
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    dark  epic  grim-dark  historical  magic  medieval  mystery  paranormal
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