Lists and Suggestions
List: If You Like J.R.R. Tolkien

Dragon Wing
Weis, Margaret.
The first part of the Death Gate Cycle (to be 7 books) is a fantasy of a land inhabited by dwarfs an...
Dragonflight
McCaffrey, Anne.
At a time when the number of Dragonriders has fallen too low for safety and only one Weyr trains the...
The Eye of the World
Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007.
In the Third Age, an age of prophecy when the world and time themselves hang in the balance, the Dar...
The Annotated Sword of Shannara
Brooks, Terry.
Long ago, wars ravaged the world. In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows little of s...
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Clarke, Susanna.
English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and cal...
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Jemisin, N. K.
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circums...
A Game of Thrones
Martin, George R. R.
A tale of court intrigues in the land of Seven Kingdoms, a country "blessed by golden summers t...
The Name of the Wind
Rothfuss, Patrick,
This powerful debut novel follows the story of Kvothe, the magically gifted young man who grows to b...
The Blade Itself
Abercrombie, Joe.
Longen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he&...
The Once and Future King
White, T. H.
The world's greatest fantasy classic is the magical epic of King Arthur and his shining Camelot...

Chronicles of the Black Company
Cook, Glen.
Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what t...
Blood of Ambrose
Enge, James,
The late Emperor's brother-in-law and murderer, Lord Urdhven, appoints himself Protector to his...

Wizard's First Rule
Goodkind, Terry.
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, Richard Cypher encounters a mysterious woman, K...
The Red Wolf Conspiracy
Redick, Robert V. S.
Scant years after a terrible war that shook empires, a 600-year-old ship sails for enemy lands and m...
The Dragonbone Chair
Williams, Tad.
The Dragonbone Chair is the story of Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, whos...
The Magician's Nephew
Lewis, C. S.
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up...
Assassin's Apprentice
Hobb, Robin.
A bastard prince relegated to cleaning stables is chosen by a king to become an assassin. The novel ...
Gardens of the Moon
Erikson, Steven.
The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and ...
Pawn of Prophecy
Eddings, David.
Garion the farm boy did not believe in magic dooms, but then he did not know that soon he would be o...
Lord Foul
Donaldson, Stephen R.
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alterna...