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This Plot is Bananas! by J.P. Valentine
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWith betrayal weighing heavily on their spirits and the devouring flame an ever-present threat, Eve and the gang can do little to stave off the eternal undercurrent of silliness that pervades their lives... -
He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsJason wakes up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters.It’s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil.He’ll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and that’s just on the first day... -
Wyrd Sisters: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTerry Pratchett takes Shakespeare's Macbeth and then turns it up 'till the knob comes off. It's all there - a wicked duke and duchess, the ghost of the murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players, a land in peril. And who stands between the Kingdom and destruction? Three witches... -
Oh Great! I was Reincarnated as a Farmer by Benjamin Kerei, Travis Baldree
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhat do you have when you blend a pinch of litrpg, a touch of farming simulator, a sprinkle of epic fantasy, a whole cup of Isekai, and a dash of Home Alone?You have Arnold’s life... -
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The Legendary Inge by Kate Stradling
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Plagued by misfortune, Ingrid Norling treks into the woods to clear her head. She emerges a monster-slayer, the shaken executioner of a creature so ferocious that even the king’s strongest warriors could not destroy it... -
Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Talking to Dragons, Patricia Wrede, Calling on Dragons, Dealing With Dragons by Books LLC
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChapters: Talking to Dragons, Patricia Wrede, Calling on Dragons, Dealing With Dragons. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge... -
Split the Party by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFleeing from a vengeful king has sent the former NPCs across Solium’s borders, into the kingdom of Alcatham. As wanted fugitives, they head to the small farming village of Briarwillow, hoping to blend in, lay-low, and avoid trouble at all costs. Unfortunately, Briarwillow has problems all its own, and its troubles quickly become theirs...Categorized as:
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Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBrimming with swords, sorcery, and wit, Orconomics: A Satire introduces Arth, a world much like our own but with more magic and fewer vowels. For the licensed wizards and warriors of Arth, slaying and looting the forces of evil is just a job. The Heroes' Guild has turned adventuring into a career, selling the rights to monsters’ hoards of treasure as investment opportunities... -
The Heavenly Host by J.L. Langland
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe dishonorable, cheating Forces of Good have been defeated! Tom Perkinje, the reluctant Greater Demon and recent transplant from Harding NJ to the Abyss has defeated and captured the not-so-valiant Sir Talarius, Knight Rampant of Tiernon and has humiliated and demoralized the army known as the Rod of Tiernon, that helped Talarius cheat in battle with Tom... -
Stuff and Nonsense by Andrew Seiple
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 23 ratings"It's a wonderful book and made me so happy when I started to read it." --Whoopi Goldberg, the View Meet Threadbare. He is twelve inches tall, full of fluff, and really, really bad at being a hero. Magically animated and discarded by his maker as a failed experiment, he is saved by a little girl. But she's got problems of her own, and he might not be able to help her... -
The Human Familiar by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhile Bannen had every intention of finding adventure, being yanked through a magical portal two continents away isn’t quite what he imagined happening. For that matter, being magically bound to a mage-in-training hadn’t ever crossed his mind. Being the first human familiar ever summoned in Corcoran? Not on his to-do list... -
Sew You Want to be a Hero by Andrew Seiple
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThreadbare has not had a very good time of it, recently. His little girl has been taken from him, and he must travel the kingdom, finding allies old and new, living and dead, to help him rescue Celia. Fortunately, he's got a voice now, and access to all those fun skills he couldn't use before...Categorized as:
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Gothel and the Maiden Prince by W.R. Gingell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDeep in the forest, far from the light, a sorceress with magic of the blackest kind keeps prisoner the princess she stole away years ago. From time to time, a prince will come to challenge her, but by and large, life is peaceful for Gothel.And that's just the way she likes it... -
First of Tomes by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsApparently, time-travel spells have a sense of humor and don’t take direction well. Mei Li could’ve done with knowing that beforehand, and fully blames Shunlei for not forewarning her.Instead of going back a few years to rescue the missing tomes, Mei Li finds herself thousands of years in the past, with the original events she needs to learn about still ten years into the future... -
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The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady by Gerald Morris
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSquire Terence and Sir Gawain are off questing again, but this time their journey is overshadowed by their ultimate destination: Gawain is to meet up with the Green Knight in a contest that could easily lead to Gawain's death. Along the way the two have a slew of hair-raising adventures and encounter the usual odd assortment of characters, including the plucky Lady Eileen... -
The Chosen One by Tevagah
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsQube was designed to die...As the cheerful childhood NPC companion who helps the [Player] learn the world during the start of the game, it was only natural that the big bad would kill her at the end of the tutorial, kick-starting the [Player] on a quest for vengeance.The only thing is, no one told her that...And this particular [Player] doesn’t like to play by the rules... -
Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 63 ratingsCe'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, is confused. Everyone knows the tales of the Orb protecting the West from the evil god Torak are just silly legends. But here she is, forced to join a dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believes in sorcery, but Garion's aunt and grandfather seem to be the fabled sorcerers Polgara and Belgarath, who would have to be thousands of years old... -
Wiedźma opiekunka, Część 1 by Olga Gromyko
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsW. Redna powraca…i jest jeszcze w.redniejsza!Czas rozpocząć prawdziwe życie. I to nie byle gdzie – na młodą czarownicę czeka już posada w Dogewie. Tak, tak, Wolha kończy swoją edukację na magicznym uniwersytecie. I to z wyróżnieniem!Pomiędzy nią, a dyplomem stoi już tylko jedna, jedyna przeszkoda. Staż. Na zamku.U wyjątkowo niewydarzonego władcy... -
Ведьма-хранительница by Ольга Громыко
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsКто сказал «Тяжело в учении, легко в бою»? А подать его сюда, в бой! Школа Чародеев, Пифий и Травниц закончена, но проблемы молодой дипломированной ведьмы только начинаются.Школа магов окончена. Вольху Редную ждут в Догеве, стране вампиров... -
Phoenix by Steven Brust
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsVerra, Vlad's patron goddess, hires him to assassinate a king whose country lies outside the Dragaeran Empire, resulting in increased tension between the two places. Meanwhile, the peasant Teckla and the human Easterners persevere in their fight for civil rights... -
The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight by Gerald Morris
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMeet thirteen-year-old Sarah, who has been living on her own and searching for the knight who was responsible for her mother’s death. Her quest for revenge leads to an even greater adventure when she witnesses Queen Guinevere being kidnapped. Soon Sarah finds herself accompanying Sir Gawain and Squire Terence on a remarkable journey to rescue the queen... -
Верховная Ведьма by Ольга Громыко
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChto nuzhno dlya schast'ya Verkhovnoj Ved'me samoj obychnoj doliny, naselennoj samymi obychnymi vampirami? Lyubimaya rabota? Uspeshnaya kar'era? Stepen' arkhimaga? Ili.. -
Princess Ahira by K.M. Shea
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOnce upon a time? Please! What a joke.Princess Ahira is not your average damsel in distress. She hates being a princess and constantly tries to flee from her mother and her lectures. Pleasantly, her life is shattered on the eve of her sixteenth birthday when she is kidnapped by dragons...Categorized as:
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Polgara the Sorceress by David Eddings, Leigh Eddings
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsShe soars above a world of warriors, kings, and priests. The daughter of Belgarath and the shape-shifter Poledra, she has fought wars, plotted palace coups, and worked her powerful magic for three thousand years. Now, Polgara looks back at her magnificent life, in this fitting crown jewel to the saga that is the Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean cycles... -
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Silver May Tarnish by Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Dales of Andre Norton’s Witch World have endured wars, natural disasters, the predations of strange creatures, and treachery. None loves the land as well as Lorcan, orphaned at birth, who has sought his birthright for as long as he can remember... -
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter (Light Novel) Vol. 2 by Meguru Seto
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDRYAD IN DISTRESSAs a full-time student and adventurer, Noir spends his days fighting monsters, studying for exams, and flirting to power his special skills. Whenever he can, he returns to the hidden dungeon to continue his secret training... -
Goblin Tales by Jim C. Hines
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA vengeful ghost trapped in a goblin's ear ... a flaming spider who must help stop a goddess from conquering a science fiction convention ... a goblin nursery worker who finds herself trapped in the middle of a war. This collection features five humorous short stories that explore the fantasy realm from the perspective of the lowest of the low, the unlikeliest of unheroes: the goblins... -
Elemental Summoner #1 by D. Levesque
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlex was living the life. His life. He worked as a convenience store clerk to pay for his games and books. At 26 years old, he was living the high life of a loner. But a bullet hole in the head ended all that. There was only one problem: he wasn’t supposed to die that day. Everyone has a time and a day that they are meant to die. That was not supposed to be Alex’s day. So God gave him a choice... -
The Tragic Life of Lady Tina DeSilva by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLady Tina DeSilva was not a cruel girl. No, she most definitely wasn't cruel. After all, it wasn't her fault that Mervin made her want to stab him in the face just to see what his blood looked spilling out onto the ground while he screamed for her to stop.Rystin was forever. Mervin, though.Mervin was just a bump in the road... -
Oh God Not Again! by Sarah1281
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSo maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.Fanfiction for Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling... -
Zawód: Wiedźma, Część 1 by Olga Gromyko
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDlaczego mistrz wrzuca młodziutką magiczkę na głęboką wodę zagadki, która przed nią pochłonęła 13 ofiar, w tym... kilku magów z doświadczeniem?Bo ma talent. Bo jest wystarczająco wścibska i ciekawska, a dwutomowa podróż w jej towarzystwie przekonuje, że to świetny kompan i - wbrew pozorom - nielichy przeciwnik... -
Spellweaver by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling author returns to the Nine Kingdoms for another spellbinding story of magical romance. Ruith had long managed to ignore the magic in his veins, until aiding Sarah with her ill-fated quest forced him into places where his heritage was impossible to deny... -
Hit or Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe apprentice Skeeve is just getting used to his duties as Court Magician of Possiltum. Then King Roderick decides to take a powder, leaving Skeeve in his place to marry his homicidal fiancee and face the Mob's fairy godfather-who makes him an offer he can't refuse...Categorized as:
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The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, the Dragaeran Empire is a hotbed of intrigue, sorcery, intrigue, swashbuckling adventure, and intrigue. For those who would be heroes, it is a delightful time to be alive--and an easy place to die.Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and "tolerably well acquainted with its use...Categorized as:
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Fake Dating a Human 101 by Jennifer Kropf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe High Court of the Coffee Bean is back again! Only this time there aren't even any cookies.In this fantasy rom com series finale, things take a sinister turn for the Coffee Bean Crew when Shayne Lyro disappears to the Ever Corners to face the family he once knew and assassinate a dreamslipper who's been sending him nightmares and calling him home... -
Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsRupert didn't especially want to be a prince. And he certainly never asked to be the second son of a royal line that really didn't need a spare. So he was sent out to slay a dragon and prove himself-a quest straight out of legend... -
Goblin War by Jim C. Hines
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf you think it’s hard being a hobgoblin or a human, try living a goblin’s life for a while. In fact, try imagining what it’s like to be the runtiest goblin in the caves, the lone worshiper of a god who’s been forgotten for a good reason, and the target everyone points to at the first hint of trouble... -
How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFor thousands of years, there has been a cycle: a Demon King rises and conquers, and a Hero is reborn a hundred years later to defeat him. Each time, civilizations are ground to dust beneath the Demon King's hordes, but humanity has remained secure in the belief that a Hero of legend will always save them. There's just one slight problem... -
Nanny Ogg's Cookbook by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach which just goes to show they're as confused about anatomy as they gen'rally are about everything else, unless they're talking about instructions on how to stab him, in which case a better way is up and under the ribcage... -
The Simoqin Prophecies by Samit Basu
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Simoqin Prophecies marks the debut of an assured new voice. Written with consummate ease and brimming with wit and allusion, it is at once classic SFF and subtle spoof, featuring scantily clad centauresses, flying carpets, pink trolls, belly dancers and homicidal rabbits... -
The Folklore of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTerry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten... -
Eight Skilled Gentlemen by Barry Hughart
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsOnce again World Fantasy Award-winner Barry Hughart blends folklore and fantasy to create a work of enchantment set in an ancient China that never was…but should have been. Master Li and Number Ten Ox—heroes of Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone—return to solve the mystery of how and why respected mandarins are being mysteriously murdered... -
The Rabbit Great and Terrible by Nelson Chereta, Gary Furlong
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTorikai is the Golden City, the City of Ruin and Fortune, and a place where you can find almost anything... for the right price. Waldo and company arrive looking for information. What they find is a suspicious mage guild, a delusional queen, an entire city awash in greed and deception, and an old acquaintance who is VERY happy to see him again... -
Rabbit the Barbarian by Nelson Chereta
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt last! Waldo, Alice, and Gronk have arrived at World's End and located a dragon! What once seemed absolutely impossible is now nearly within reach. With determination to get either a dragon's egg or a dragon Waldo sets out. He is soon face to face with the red dragon Luna and she is... not quite what he expected... -
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Dreamspinner by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Lynn Kurland’s enthralling Nine Kingdoms saga brings together a weaver’s apprentice and the son of a mage, both fighting to save the Nine Kingdoms from peril. Aisling of Bruadair has lived a provincial life, heedless of the evil creeping over her land... -
False Idols by Jon Hollins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGuardians of the Galaxy meets The Hobbit in this rollicking fantasy adventure series. The Dragons who once ruled over the land are dead.The motley crew that stumbled through that revolution are rich and praised as saviors.Everyone gets to live happily ever after, right?Right?Well, it might have worked out that way if the dragons in Kondorra had been the only ones... -
Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy by Tanya Huff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExplore uncharted territory in this collection of heroic fantasy shorts from Tanya Huff. Annotations provide background and insight on each story. Peppered with Huffs trademark tongue-in-cheek wit and the brilliant, funny, wise, ruthless heroines that have made her famous, this is a collection you wont want to miss. Travel to Camelot in Nights of the Round Table and to ancient Egypt in Succession... -
Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights by Liam Perrin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhimsical and poignant, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights tells the story of Thomas Farmer who dreams of becoming a knight, sets out to save his brother from the hands of an evil Baron, and uncovers a plot that threatens Camelot itself... -
The Incompleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Mathematics of Magic - it was the greatest discovery ever. Or so thought Professor Harold Shea. With the proper equations he could instantly transport himself and his friend Reed Chalmers back - or sideways - in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient myth and legend.But slips in time were a hazard. and Shea's magic didn't always work quite as he expected... -
Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections by Robert Lynn Asprin
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSkeeve leaves the rest of the M.Y.T.H. crew behind as he follows his erstwhile mentor, Aahz, to the demon’s home dimension of Perv. And you thought New York City was rough! Skeeve hopes to convince Aahz to return to Deva, but he soon discovers that his search has become a journey of self-discovery...Categorized as:
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