High Fantasy

High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional ( "secondary" ) world, rather than the real, or "primary" world. The secondary world is usually internally consistent but its rules differ in some way(s) from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set in the primary, or "real" world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements. ...more

Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1)
Fate of the Sun King (Artefacts of Ouranos #3)
Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)
Running Close to the Wind
Sleep Like Death
Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)
We Shall Be Monsters (We Shall be Monsters, #1)
The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)
The Hunter's Gambit
Hearts That Cut (Threads That Bind, #2)
The Girl Who Kept the Castle
Poison in Their Hearts (Castles in Their Bones, #3)
The Knight (The Last Horizon #3)
Dancers of the Dawn
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)
When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)
Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)
Finale (Caraval, #3)
A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)
Heat of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #3)
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)
A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1)

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Patrick Rothfuss
It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking. If there had been a wind it would have sighed through the trees, set the inn’s sign creaking on its hooks, and brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves. If there had been a crowd, even a handful of men inside the inn, they would have filled the silence with conversation and laughter, the clatter and cl ...more
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