Epic Fantasy

Epic Fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is set in invented or parallel world. It is most commonly considered to be the same genre as High Fantasy, since they share many of the same elements, but Epic Fantasy takes the story even farther, in a bigger and more epic way (e.g. the stakes are greater; the land/world is in peril; a great evil threatens the world; the conflict shakes all who dwell in the world of the story).

Epic Fantasy became more famous through the works of such as: Brandon Sanderson, Brent Weeks, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie, Terry B
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The Tarot Trials (The Tarot Trials, #1)
The Thrice-Bound Fool (Blacktongue #2)
The Splintered Sun (Flann's Crows, #1)
Out of the Ashes (After the Fall, #1)
The Heresy of Thieves (Spellfall #1)
Soulstealer (The Soulflake Conspiracies, #1)
The Fires of December (Hoid's Travails, #3)
The Thief and the Traitor Bride (The Hand and the Heart #2)
The Truth (The Bound and The Broken, #4.5)
Eden's Rise: The Empire Under the Mountains
The Fires of December (Hoid's Travails, #3)
The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)
The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
The Thrice-Bound Fool (Blacktongue #2)
The Sunlit Man (Cosmere)
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
Heretical Fishing (Heretical Fishing, #1)
Don't Be In Love
Crossroads of Ravens (The Witcher, #0.1)
Bloodline (Cradle, #9)
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
Cold Wind (Ironbound, #2)
Splintered Kingdom (Shattered Crown, #2)
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Medieval Fantasy Books
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

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“ Eshra’s arena, dark and vile, like a black mold growing on the skin of the world. Yet oddly beautiful. The longer I stared at those walls, the more beautiful they appeared. Strong. Inviting. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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