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Water Moon
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Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
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Getting It On With Gargoyles (Haven Ever After, #1)
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The In-Between Bookstore
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What Comes of Attending the Commoners Ball
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
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Death of the Author
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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)
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The Crown of Embers (Fire and Thorns, #2)
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The Librarian of the Haunted Library (Strangely Scary Funny #1)
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Kingdom of Fallen Ash (The Order #1)
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
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The Book of Azrael (Gods & Monsters, #1)
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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Sangu Mandanna (Goodreads Author)
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At the Bottom of the Garden
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Camilla Bruce (Goodreads Author)
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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My Roommate Is a Vampire (My Vampires, #1)
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Jenna Levine (Goodreads Author)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
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Blood Over Bright Haven
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M.L. Wang (Goodreads Author)
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Midlife in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #1)
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Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
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Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
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Storm Glass (Glass, #1)
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The House Witch (The House Witch, #1)
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The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1)
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City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
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For Whom the Belle Tolls (Hell's Belles, #1)
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Jaysea Lynn (Goodreads Author)
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The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1)
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Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
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Never Fall for a Dragon (Mate Mountain, #1)
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Lola Glass (Goodreads Author)
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The Three Witches and The Master
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Max Nowaz (Goodreads Author)
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Rage and Ruin (The Harbinger, #2)
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (Goodreads Author)
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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
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The Singer of All Songs (The Chanters of Tremaris #1)
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American Gods
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
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Susan, You're The Chosen One (Welcome To Midlife Magic, #1)
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Lauretta Hignett (Goodreads Author)
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Star of the Morning (Nine Kingdoms, #1)
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
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The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
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The Scorpio Races
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
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A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon (Glimmer Falls, #1)
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Sarah Hawley (Goodreads Author)
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Elantris (Elantris, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
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A Fairy Awesome Story (A Fairy Awesome Story, #1)
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Shadowfell (Shadowfell, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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Hex of the Witch (The Other Witch, #1)
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Heather G. Harris (Goodreads Author)
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That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (Mead Mishaps, #1)
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Kimberly Lemming (Goodreads Author)
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Son of the Shadows (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, #2)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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House of Marionne (House of Marionne #1)
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J. Elle (Goodreads Author)
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Gilded Tower (Double-Blind #2)
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The Secret of the Blood Charm (Coven Cove #1)
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Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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Tracy Deonn (Goodreads Author)
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Enna Burning (The Books of Bayern, #2)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
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The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
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Heir to Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #4)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
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Elizabeth Lim (Goodreads Author)
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The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles, #1)
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Laurie Forest (Goodreads Author)
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Inkdeath (Inkworld, #3)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
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Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
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Wolf Tower (Claidi Journals, #1)
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Marked (House of Night, #1)
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P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
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Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)
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Melina Marchetta (Goodreads Author)
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Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
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The Perilous Gard
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Lore
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The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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Paper Towns
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Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
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Holly Jackson (Goodreads Author)
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The Fairy Next Book (A Fairy Awesome Story, #2)
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Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4)
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Brightly Woven
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The Fairiest Fairy of Them All (A Fairy Awesome Story, #3)
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Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, #1)
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price
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The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
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The Pirate's Wish (The Assassin's Curse, #2)
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Picking Daisies on Sundays (Picking Daisies on Sundays, #1)
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Don't Be In Love
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Catch the Sun
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River Secrets (The Books of Bayern, #3)
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Gallant
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Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
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Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy, #1)
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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Knight of Flame
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The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
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City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)
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The Well of Shades (The Bridei Chronicles, #3)
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Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)
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whoever voted on this list has pretty good taste, for me that is. this is all my favorite things to have in a book in one list.
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Garden Spells is one of my ultimate favorites. Can I add books to this list? If not, someone should definitely add it.
Lol. I do love the Gallagher Girls series but I am certain they contain no magic. At least not in any literal way.However, adventure and romance they've got plenty.
I do not believe the Hunger Games has any magic in it, at all.
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner and the next two books, Queen of Attolia and King of Attolia should be on this list. They are brilliant. Not so keen on the fourth one though, the Conspiracy of Kings.
The Hunger Games books are sci-fi, no matter how implausible the dystopia seems. And there's no magic.
Strongly recommend 'The Name of The Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss, and the one after called 'The Wise Mans Fear'.Once you read them, you realise how small and insignificant most of the other mainstream adventure books are. Its utterly mind blowing, extremely well written and cleverly thought about.
It will get your eyes and mind stuck into the story.
Anyone read them?
Roshio wrote: "I do not believe the Hunger Games has any magic in it, at all."Correctamundo
The Tiger series (Curse and Quest) has magic, romance, adventure, laughs and more. Seriously my favorite books right now!
You've gotta read The Ballad of Young Tam Lin. Innocent Lady Janet Dunbar becomes romantically entangled with the dashing Tam Lin. But is he human, or an Elf? And in either case, will he leave his lover, the Queen of Summerland, to be a father to Janet's unborn child - or will he end up being sent as a tithe to Hell? Great writing, and a totally engaging story.
Yet again I find a situation where a lovely book ends up on the wrong list. Case in point: 100, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Good as it is, it does not belong here.Magic? Check. Adventure? Check. Romance? None at all. If you want anything resembling a well-developed romance in C.S. Lewis's Narnia, you have to wait for The Horse and His Boy.
Lydia wrote: "Strongly recommend 'The Name of The Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss, and the one after called 'The Wise Mans Fear'.Once you read them, you realise how small and insignificant most of the other mainstrea..."
I did. Yes, they were very good. :)
the name of the wind be Pat Rothfuss needs to be on this list
I've been going through and adding some of my own votes -- because voting on Goodreads lists is fun, I've discovered, and because I have more right to complain about items on a list if I have voted myself. I've been looking for books on this list that have a good balance of the three items. Yet I'm finding quite a few, even high up in the list, that have magic and adventure but almost no romance.For instance, I question the inclusion of books from Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire saga. These books have quite a lot to recommend them; they are powerful, intriguing stories. But they are not romantic. No one picks up those books expecting to be swept away by a detailed, sympathetic depiction of romance. That's not their selling point.
And why, in the name of all that is holy, is The Hobbit (Item 440) on this list?? There -- are -- no -- females -- in -- this -- book! Nor is there any homosexual text or subtext. Is it a great book? Absolutely! But it contains not the slightest whiff of romance. Surely we can love our favorite books without pretending they're something they're not.
How does Divergent contain magic? Also, it seems like more of an action book than an adventure. Can someone please remove it?
How is nothing by Jacqueline Carey on this list. Those to me are the ultimate in Fantasy and Romance. Jacqueline Carey
I noticed titles on this list which made me go "Eh...?" The title of the Listopia is Magic, Adventure, Romance and the description says "Fantasy novels containing ALL of the above! The way I interpret this is: all three items have to be present in one book in order for the title to appear in this Listopia. Seems I really need to reread some of the books on my shelves, as I wasn't aware all three items were in them. That is of course if Josie, the creator of the list, meant to have all three items in one book, instead of one or two of the items?
I did indeed mean novels that contained all three themes, not just one or two. Unfortunately it's a little hard to police or edit a list containing 1355 titles!
Josie wrote: "I did indeed mean novels that contained all three themes, not just one or two. Unfortunately it's a little hard to police or edit a list containing 1355 titles!"Seems I my interpretation of your description was right then. Phew :-)
Booklovinglady wrote: "Josie wrote: "I did indeed mean novels that contained all three themes, not just one or two. Unfortunately it's a little hard to police or edit a list containing 1355 titles!"Seems I my interpret..."
Please feel free to note books you don't think belong, I'd be more than happy to double check and remove anything that doesn't belong :)
Sandra wrote: "Please feel free to note books you don't think belong, I'd be more than happy to double check and remove anything that doesn't belong :) ..."Judging from the Librarian change log, several people have deleted books already, but without mentioning which books thye've removed. I haven't removed any of the titles I've come across, as it is a long time ago since I've read the books.
Books still on this list which, as far as I can remember at least, have no romance in them, are the Tolkien books. Neither is there romance, in the proper sense of the word, in most, if not all, of the Harry Potter novels.
Regarding the Harry Potter novels, some case could be made for “Goblet of Fire” and the ones that follow it. But the first three contain no trace of romance.
I would definitely say that ALL of the Sarah J. Maas books should be at the top :) but all of these are great books!
The Final Empire and The Name of the Wind are great books, yes, but where is the romance? I don't remember ANY in The Name of the Wind and there really isn't any in the first Mistborn book either unless we are counting conversations with characters that we know end up together later on in a series... As much as I enjoyed these books I don't feel they belong here.
¡Hola! Me encantaría que mi novela de aventura romántica se encuentre en esta lista. ¿Alguien me podría ayudar a agregarla?Muchas gracias.
Mayoosh wrote: "checked" ¡Muchas gracias!
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