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Epic Fantasy

These Epic Fantasy stories are series starters, that will absorb you into a whole new world.

Mid-Continent Public Library

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  • A war orphan rises from her humble beginnings to become a powerful military commander, and perhaps her country's only hope for survival. First book in series.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — F KUANG
  • When a dark force begins to overtake the crumbling border walls of the Hokkaran Empire, an infamous Qorin warrior and a spoiled divine warrior princess set out to save their people and fufill the prophecy made at their birth. First book in…
    BookNew York : TOR, 2017. — F RIVERA
  • Danso is a clever but disillusioned scholar who longs for a life beyond the rigid family and political obligations expected of the city's elite. A way out presents itself when Lilong, a skin-changing warrior, shows up wounded in his barn.…
    BookNew York, NY : Orbit, 2021. — F OKUNGBOWA
  • Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Essun will break it…
    BookNew York : Orbit, 2015. — F JEMISIN
  • Welcome to the World of Dragonships Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war.…
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Tor, 2009. — F WEIS
  • Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures…
    BookNew York : Saga Press, 2015. — F LIU
  • When a village is attacked by trollocs, monsters thought to exist only in legends, three young men, Rand, Matt, and Perrin, flee in the company of the Lady Moiraine, a sinister visitor of unsuspected powers. Thus begins an epic adventure…
    BookNew York : Tom Doherty Associates, 1990. — F JORDAN
  • Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — YF ADEYEMI
  • The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these…
    BookNew York, N.Y. : DAW Books, [2007] — F ROTHFUSS
  • Kyra is the youngest Markswoman in the Order of Kali, a highly trained sisterhood of elite warriors armed with telepathic blades. Guided by a strict code of conduct, Kyra and the other Orders are sworn to protect the people of Asiana. But…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — F MEHROTRA
  • Olive and Darin have grown up in a world that their parents made for them: one where demons no longer torment mankind. But there are signs that the demons have returned to the earth--and that they might be hunting Olive. Now Olive and…
    BookNew York : Del Rey, 2024 — F BRETT
  • Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn, and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world. First in…
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Tor, 2006. — F SANDERSON
  • The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons.…
    BookNew York, NY : Orbit, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, 2019. — F WINTER
  • "The epic fantasy that's taking the world by storm--a bewitching story about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her…
    BookNew York : Viking, 2021. — F KNOX
  • A god will return when the earth and sky converge. Under the black sun In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event…
    BookNew York : Saga Press, 2020. — F ROANHORSE
  • With their lines weakening, the drakes, whose prized blood is used to make a powerful elixir, pose a threat to the supremacy of the Ironship Syndicate.
    BookNew York, NY : Ace Books, 2016. — F
  • Neythan is one of five young warriors trained and raised together by a mysterious brotherhood of assassins known as the Shedaím. When Neythan is framed for the murder of his closest friend, he pursues his betrayer and in so doing learns…
    BookNottingham : Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd, 2018. — F YONGO
  • Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms, this propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the…
    BookNew York, NY : Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022. — F MACALLISTER