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Soul of a Highlander (Daughters of the Glen, #3)
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Melissa Mayhue (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 2,463 ratings
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Aerie (Dragon Jousters, #4)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
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The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3)
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Lev Grossman (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 81,333 ratings
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The Eyes of the Dragon
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 141,838 ratings
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Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (Daughters of the Glen, #1)
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Melissa Mayhue (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 6,562 ratings
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The Last Herald-Mage (Valdemar: The Last Herald-Mage, #1-3)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 6,943 ratings
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Witchcraft: Last Chance Cafe/Bayou Reunion
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Jayne Ann Krentz (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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Red Hood's Revenge (Princess, #3)
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Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 2,381 ratings
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Charmed by His Love (Spellbound Falls, #2)
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The Mermaid's Madness (Princess, #2)
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Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 2,999 ratings
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The Highlander Next Door (Spellbound Falls, #6)
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Sanctuary (Dragon Jousters, #3)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 7,775 ratings
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Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, #2)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 93,672 ratings
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Hero (Woodcutter Sisters, #2; Books of Arilland, #2)
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Alethea Kontis (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 4,404 ratings
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Alta (Dragon Jousters, #2)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 8,576 ratings
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Iron and Magic (The Iron Covenant, #1)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 28,219 ratings
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Darkborn (Darkborn Trilogy, #1)
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Alison Sinclair (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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Wedding the Highlander (Highlander, #3)
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Nobody's Prize (Nobody's Princess, #2)
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3.86 avg rating — 6,588 ratings
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In the Midnight Hour (Light Warriors, #1)
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Patti O'Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.19 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Lightborn (Darkborn Trilogy, #2)
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Alison Sinclair (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Sapphire Flames (Hidden Legacy, #4)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 34,348 ratings
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Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 115,308 ratings
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Magic of Wind and Mist (The Hanna Duology, #1-2)
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Cassandra Rose Clarke (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles, #1)
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Jessica Spotswood (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 17,799 ratings
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The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes
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Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 3,760 ratings
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Gunmetal Magic (Kate Daniels, #5.5; World of Kate Daniels, #6 & #6.5; Andrea Nash, #1)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 39,380 ratings
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Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)
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Melissa Marr (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 166,023 ratings
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Fated (Pack of Dawn and Destiny, #3)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 7,898 ratings
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The Friday Society
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Adrienne Kress (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 3,057 ratings
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United (Pack of Dawn and Destiny, #2)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 8,141 ratings
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,140,584 ratings
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Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires, #2)
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Chloe Neill (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 49,521 ratings
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The Dark Elf Trilogy Collector's Edition (Forgotten Realms: Dark Elf Trilogy, #1-3; Legend of Drizzt, #1-3)
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4.36 avg rating — 29,209 ratings
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Bayou Moon (The Edge, #2)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 30,595 ratings
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Hunted (Pack of Dawn and Destiny, #1)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 9,521 ratings
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The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf (The Squire's Tales, #3)
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4.26 avg rating — 5,578 ratings
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The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
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Susan Cooper (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 60,150 ratings
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Feral Sins (The Phoenix Pack, #1)
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Suzanne Wright (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 63,399 ratings
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Lady of Devices (Magnificent Devices, #1)
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Shelley Adina (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 8,358 ratings
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Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 61,356 ratings
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The Stepsister Scheme (Princess, #1)
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Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 5,277 ratings
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Protector of the Small (Protector of the Small, #1-4)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 10,390 ratings
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The Queen's Crown (Court of Midnight and Deception, #3)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 9,382 ratings
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The Diamond Throne (The Elenium #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 36,305 ratings
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Courting Darkness (Courting Darkness Duology, #1)
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Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 28,127 ratings
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Natural Witch (Magical Mayhem Trilogy, #1)
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K.F. Breene (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 15,903 ratings
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Igniting Darkness (Courting Darkness Duology, #2)
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4.13 avg rating — 2,859 ratings
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Fused in Fire (Fire and Ice Trilogy, #3)
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K.F. Breene (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 19,117 ratings
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The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 76,689 ratings
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Raised in Fire (Fire and Ice Trilogy, #2)
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K.F. Breene (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 23,998 ratings
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The Faerie Path (Faerie Path, #1)
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3.61 avg rating — 11,255 ratings
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A Touch of Stone and Snow (A Gathering of Dragons, #2)
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Born in Fire (Fire and Ice Trilogy, #1)
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K.F. Breene (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 36,048 ratings
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Spider's Bite (Elemental Assassin, #1)
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Jennifer Estep (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 35,275 ratings
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 110,112 ratings
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Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab, #1)
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Karen Chance (Goodreads Author)
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 820,687 ratings
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Crown of Moonlight (Court of Midnight and Deception, #2)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 9,037 ratings
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The Squire's Tale (The Squire's Tales, #1)
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Crown of Shadows (Court of Midnight and Deception, #1)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 11,567 ratings
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Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (Piratica, #1)
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The Healer (The Order of Intergalactic Peace #1)
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Kelly Lucille (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1)
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Grace Draven (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 67,292 ratings
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Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 44,964 ratings
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The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1)
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Kady Cross (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 21,846 ratings
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Fierce Heart (Elven Alliance, #1)
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Tara Grayce (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 7,751 ratings
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Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
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Rebecca Ross (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 387,648 ratings
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Sinister Magic (Death Before Dragons, #1)
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Lindsay Buroker (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 11,520 ratings
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The Legend of Sun Knight, Vol. 1 (The Legend of Sun Knight - Manhua, #1)
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4.44 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Drifters Volume 1
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Lights Out Volume 1
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Myung-Jin Lee (Illustrator)
3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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Scott Lynch (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 331,758 ratings
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Magic Unleashed (Hall of Blood and Mercy, #3)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 11,206 ratings
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Too Many Curses
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A. Lee Martinez (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,999 ratings
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The Secret Romantic's Book of Magic
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Marie O'Regan (Editor)
3.53 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Little (Grrl) Lost (Newford, #16)
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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Enthroned (King Arthur and Her Knights, #1)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 2,579 ratings
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Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 103,433 ratings
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Seraphina (Seraphina, #1)
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Rachel Hartman (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 89,002 ratings
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Squire (Protector of the Small, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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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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