Books Like The Wheel of Time
Rand al'Thor, a farm boy from the Two Rivers, learns he is the Dragon Reborn. He is destined to fight the Dark One and to break the world again.
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The Drenai Saga
An aging axeman, Druss the Legend, and other heroes of the Drenai stand against impossible odds at fortresses like Dros Delnoch.
The Black Company
A mercenary company's annalist records their service to a sorceress called the Lady, and what it costs them.
The Stormlight Archive
On a storm-scoured world, a slave-soldier, a scholar and a guilt-ridden assassin take up the oaths of the broken Knights Radiant as an ancient enemy returns.
A Song of Ice and Fire
Noble houses tear Westeros apart over the Iron Throne. Meanwhile an older threat gathers beyond the Wall in the north.
Mistborn
Under an ash-choked sky ruled by a god-king for a thousand years, a street thief learns to burn metals for power. She joins a crew planning the impossible heist of the Final Empire.
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Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the real reason King Leonidas and his three hundred died at Thermopylae. Sixty-two years later the gods send a Spartan boy of the agoge to kill it. The book takes lessons from tragedy and the cost of sacrifice, as is the Greek way.