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245 past books matching Sword and Sorcery
Good for readers who want completed epic fantasy with reluctant heroes, gathering armies, hidden orders, forbidden blades, and old powers stirring.
The Song of the First Blade
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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The Song of the First Blade follows Elyon Daecar, the second son of the First Blade, as he is forced away from tourneys and forbidden desire toward command, sacrifice, and war, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 2,700 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want completed epic fantasy with reluctant heroes, gathering armies, hidden orders, forbidden blades, and old powers stirring.
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Elyon Daecar was born to greatness — and has spent his life avoiding it.
As the second son of the First Blade, commander of the famed Varin Knights, Elyon inherited the skill, the name, and the reputation. Responsibility, however, belongs to his older brother. Elyon is content to win tourneys, drink with soldiers, and pursue a princess he absolutely should not be pursuing.
But while Elyon plays at heroism, the world is already changing.
In the northlands of Tukor, a servant girl named Saska watches her village unravel when a ruthless lord begins taking boys for a distant war. High in the mountains, a hidden order dispatches an assassin, armed with a forbidden blade and a name known across the realm.
Their lives have nothing in common.
Until they do.
As armies gather and old powers stir, Elyon is finally forced to face the life he has spent years escaping — not glory, not tourneys, but command, sacrifice, and war.
Because the day is coming when Vandar will need a hero.
And Elyon may not be ready to become one.
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Each night, monsters hunt him in his sleep, and the wounds follow him into waking life.
Academy Arcanist
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Each night, monsters hunt him in his sleep, and the wounds follow him into waking life. Gray Lexly dreams of studying magic at Astra Academy, but survival comes first when a powerful professor rescues him from deadly nightmares. To become an arcanist, he must bond with a mystical creature and claim his place in this academy fantasy shaped by choice, danger, and growing power.
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2023 DRAGON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST YA FANTASY NOVEL!
Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy.
Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the prestigious Astra Academy, a school for arcanists—those who can wield magic. But Gray has a major problem. Every night, as he sleeps, he’s visited by monsters. When they injure Gray in his dreams, he wakes with the same wounds in real life…
On the night Gray might finally die in his nightmares, he is saved by the kind and mysterious Professor Helmith, a powerful arcanist. She offers to protect Gray and invites him to attend Astra Academy.
Before that can happen, Gray must bond with a mystical creature to become an arcanist himself. Will he bond with a unicorn? A pegasus? A kitsune? Whatever he bonds with will determine his magical abilities, so he must choose wisely.
And when trouble finds Professor Helmith, Gray must become powerful enough to help her and fend off the terrible nightmares, before it’s too late…
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In a world where power defines worth, failure becomes a brand that cannot be erased.
Voidheart
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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In a world where power defines worth, failure becomes a brand that cannot be erased. When Roran Los touches the aether stone and it goes dark, he is named a voidheart, feared for his ability to suppress the magic of others. As ancient forces awaken beyond his homeland, this progression fantasy follows a rejected youth learning to master the very void that isolates him.
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The aether stone grants power to the worthy. For Roran, it gave nothing—except the ability to take it away.
At the Shardfall Ceremony, every youth in the Casernak Basin receives a celestial gift—fire, storm, stone, or frost. Roran Los should’ve joined them, earning a place among the protectors of his homeland.
But when he touches the aether stone, it goes dark.
Branded a voidheart—a rare and feared anomaly capable of suppressing the powers of others—Roran is isolated from his peers and forbidden from training. No one can teach him. No one trusts him. And even he doesn’t know what he’s becoming.
When a deadly force stirs in the ancient ruins beyond the basin, Roran must master the void threatening to consume him… or risk losing everything.
Voidheart is the first book in an exciting new progression fantasy series, perfect for fans of Cradle, Iron Prince, and Academy of Magic. Expect a weak-to-strong hero, a unique suppression-based magic system, ancient mysteries, and creatures born from starlight and shadow.
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Ancient sorcery promises power but leaves ruin in its wake.
Conan: City of the Dead
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Ancient sorcery promises power but leaves ruin in its wake. In Conan: City of the Dead, the Cimmerian mercenary confronts wizards twisted by a deadly lotus and a plague-born monstrosity unleashed upon a doomed city. Trapped amid undead horrors and forbidden magic, Conan must rely on steel and instinct in a sword and sorcery tale steeped in dark fantasy and cosmic dread.
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Two epics in one book as Conan the mercenary faces hideously transformed wizards and undead creatures in action-packed fantasy combining Robert E. Howard’s trademark sword and sorcery with concepts straight out of Lovecraftian horror.
Combines the classic Conan and the Emerald Lotus with the all-new, original Conan and the Living Plague.
The long-awaited follow-up to Conan and the Emerald Lotus brings John C. Hocking back to the sagas of the Cimmerian.
In Conan and the Emerald Lotus, the seeds of a deadly, addictive plant grant sorcerers immense power, but turn its users into inhuman killers.
In the exclusive, long-awaited sequel Conan and the Living Plague, a Shemite wizard seeks to create a serum to use as a lethal weapon. Instead he unleashes a hideous monster on the city of Dulcine. Hired to loot the city of its treasures, Conan and his fellows in the mercenary troop find themselves trapped in the depths of the city’s keep. To escape, they must defeat the creature, its plague-wracked undead followers, then face Lovecraftian horrors beyond mortal comprehension.
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In a kingdom built on broken magic and buried bloodlines, the one woman who can restore balance is the one determined to stay hidden.
Bounty Hunter
Romantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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In a kingdom built on broken magic and buried bloodlines, the one woman who can restore balance is the one determined to stay hidden. In Bounty Hunter, Vera survives as a feared Black Tulip, taking a dangerous contract that binds her to a captive king desperate to save his realm. Forced across a hostile landscape, mistrust and reluctant attraction fuel this slow-burn, no-spice enemies-to-lovers epic fantasy romance.
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After a cataclysmic war restores magic and the gods, the fragile world of Ansalon teeters on the brink of new corruption.
Amber and Ashes
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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After a cataclysmic war restores magic and the gods, the fragile world of Ansalon teeters on the brink of new corruption. Mina, a haunted warrior devoted to a fallen goddess, binds herself to a seductive god of death as a vampire cult spreads. This dark fantasy returns to the Dragonlance realm with moral conflict, divine intrigue, and a struggle between faith and ruin.
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New York Times-bestselling author Margaret Weis returns to the realm of Dragonlance with this first installment in a dark and exciting fantasy trilogy.
MEET THE DARK DISCIPLE: Though the War of Souls is over, evil still looms—and a warrior-woman aids the seductive God of Death.
The War of Souls has come to an end at last. Magic is back, and so are the gods. But the gods are vying for supremacy, and the war has caused widespread misery, uprooting entire nations and changing the balance of power on Ansalon.
The mysterious warrior-woman Mina, brooding on her failure and the loss of her goddess, makes a pact with evil in a seductive guide. As a strange vampire cult spreads throughout the fragile world, unlikely heroes—a wayward monk and a kender who can communicate with the dead—join forces to try to uproot the cause of the growing evil.
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Conan - Blood of the Serpent returns to the early days of a warrior shaped by violence and survival.
Conan – Blood of the Serpent
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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Conan - Blood of the Serpent returns to the early days of a warrior shaped by violence and survival. Far from his northern homeland, Conan moves through the Hyborian Age as mercenary, thief, and soldier, confronting sorcery, war, and inhuman threats. Strength and instinct guide every choice in a world ruled by steel and ambition. This fantasy novel delivers classic sword-and-sorcery driven by momentum, brutality, and mythic struggle.
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The pulse-pounding return of Conan, the most iconic fantasy hero in popular culture, with a brand-new standalone novel by New York Times bestselling author S.M. Stirling, tied directly to the famous tales written by the legendary Robert E. Howard.
Conan the Barbarian, the world’s most famous fantasy hero, returns in an all-new novel tied directly to the famous works by his legendary creator, Robert E. Howard.
Set early in his life, Conan has left his northern homeland to cut a bloody swath across the legendary Hyborian Age. A mercenary, a soldier, a thief, and a pirate, he faces conquering armies, malicious sorcerers, and monstrous creatures—against which he wields only the sword held in his powerful grasp.
A superstar of novels, short fiction, comics, video games, films, and an upcoming Netflix series, his adventures have inspired many of the most popular authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. This is the first in a series of brand-new, standalone adventures.
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A strong match for readers who like sprawling epic fantasy, heroic adventure, powerful magic, and interconnected journeys.
Lord of the Isles
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Terry Goodkind called Lord of the Isles “an epic with the texture of the legends of yore.” After a severe storm, inhabitants of a small seaport are swept into danger, romance, and rising elemental magic as the forces powering magic reach a thousand-year peak, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 60 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like sprawling epic fantasy, heroic adventure, powerful magic, and interconnected journeys.
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Following a savage storm, two pairs of siblings from a tiny seaport town embark on challenging adventures in this epic fantasy series debut.
"An epic with the texture of the legends of yore, with rousing action and characters to cheer for." —Terry Goodkind
With Lord of the Isles, David Drake returns to fantasy with a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure in an extraordinary and colorful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak.
In the days following an unusually severe storm, the inhabitants of a tiny seaport town travel toward romance, danger, and astonishing magic that will transform them and their world.
"True brilliance is as rare as a perfect diamond or a supernova. Lord of the Isles is truly brilliant. We are in at the birth of a classic . . . There is a lot of fantasy out there, but there is only one Lord of the Isles." ―Morgan Llywelyn
"David Drake's work here is original, engrossing, and instantly credible. After all the hackneyed, repetitive fantasy I've read recently, Lord of the Isles seems quite wonderful." ―Stephen R. Donaldson
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Power shifts quietly in courts where survival depends on patience and calculation.
Wolfblade
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Power shifts quietly in courts where survival depends on patience and calculation. Marla Wolfblade moves through a web of conspirators, family rivals, and political factions while fighting to secure her son’s future in a rigidly patriarchal world. In Wolfblade, strategy replaces steel as alliances, secrets, and hard-earned political insight determine who holds power and who is sacrificed to preserve it.
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Marla Wolfblade of Hythria is determined to restore her family's great name, but conspirators surround her: the Sorcerers' Collective, the Patriots -- even members of her own family. She must make sure her son Damin lives to be old enough to restore the Wolfblade name to its former glory.
Elezaar the Dwarf is a small man with big secrets -- but that doesn't matter to Marla Wolfblade. Her brother is the High Prince of Hythria, and, in this fiercely patriarchal society, her fate will be decided on his whim. She needs someone politically astute to guide her through the maze of court politics -- and Elezaar the Dwarf knows more than he lets on.
As Elezaar teaches Marla the Rules of Gaining and Wielding Power, Marla starts on the road to becoming a tactician and a wily diplomat -- but will that be enough to keep her son alive?
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A prince destroys a city, dies a hero, and lives to regret surviving.
The Price of Power
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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A prince destroys a city, dies a hero, and lives to regret surviving. As war spreads and rival powers maneuver for control, three lives are drawn into a collision between political ambition and apocalyptic prophecy. In The Price of Power, fallen royalty, inherited bloodlines, and unwanted foresight drive a grim epic where every choice demands sacrifice, and refusing the cost may doom the world itself.
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"For fans of Joe Abercrombie's First Law and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire." - Grimdark Magazine.
Prince Barodane could not hold back the darkness. Not even in himself. He laid an innocent city in its grave and then died a hero.
In his absence, war whispers across the land.
Power-hungry highborn dispatch spies and assassins to the shadows as they maneuver for the throne, while an even greater threat rises in the South. Monsters and cultists flock to the banners of a mad prophet determined to control reality…and then shatter it.
Destiny stalks three to the brink of oblivion.
A dead prince who isn’t dead. Barodane buried his shameful past in a stupor of drugs, drink, and crime. Now, he’d rather watch the world fall apart than wear the crown again.
An orphan with hero’s blood who's forced to make a harrowing choice: betray her country or sacrifice her first love.
And a powerful seer who has no choice at all–her grandson must die.
If any of them fails to pay the price…
The cost will be the world’s complete annihilation.
Perfect for fans of The First Law, A Game of Thrones, The Five Warrior Angels, Ash and Sand, and A Land Fit for Heroes.
"This book feels like a worthy successor to some of the greats of fiction, including Malazan, A Song of Ice and Fire, and Wheel of Time." - Andy Peloquin, author of Darkblade
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A man who only plays heroes is taken for one when a desperate world runs out of options.
Kradak the Champion
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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A man who only plays heroes is taken for one when a desperate world runs out of options. When Steve is pulled through a collapsing portal into Arkana, he becomes Kradak by mistake, a champion expected to face monsters, war, and ruin. In Kradak the Champion, survival depends on whether a manufactured legend can grow into something real, shaped by courage, consequence, and unfamiliar worlds colliding.
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They call him Kradak, but his friends call him Steve.
Steve's a big guy with a knack for looking heroic — perfect for his role as Kradak in a series of cheesy B-movies. But when a fierce warrior named Rista and her sarcastic goblin sidekick Grint come through a portal from Arkana, they mistake him for the real deal.
They don’t know what a movie is. They only know their world is on the brink of ruin, and they believe Kradak the Champion is their last hope. Before Steve can explain the mix-up, the portal slams shut. Now, he’s trapped in a realm of towering Cyclops, stone-crushing Rock Titans, and battle-hardened trolls.
To survive — and maybe even save Arkana — Steve has to become the hero he’s always pretended to be. With Rista’s relentless courage, Grint’s sharp tongue, and a whole lot of questionable decisions, the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance.
Kradak the Champion is a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud sword and sorcery adventure, and the first book in the Arkana duology.
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War is declared, but some legacies are too dangerous to march openly.
Half-Bloods Rising
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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War is declared, but some legacies are too dangerous to march openly. When a half-elf named Kealin is forbidden from joining the elven war effort, a hidden truth about his bloodline begins to surface. As prophecy, forbidden magic, and an ancient threat converge, Half-Bloods Rising unfolds as a classic sword and sorcery journey driven by lineage, loyalty, and the cost of awakening long-feared power.
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War calls the elves of Urlas to battle. But Kealin, a young half-elf training to be a Sacred Blade, and his three siblings, are forbidden to go. They are not ready, or so they're told. But Kealin's lineage has a dark secret and the High Council of Urlas fears what he may become...
Kealin is about to learn that secret and in the cataclysm emerging, Urlas will wish they had embraced it.
When the soothsayer of Urlas tells Kealin that doom comes for all that left for the war, he and his siblings set off on what may be a one-way journey to the edge of the world. Darkness is upon them and a specter that dwells between the borders of the living realms has been waiting for them.
The Rogue Elf awakens... but is it too late to save those he loves?
A brave group of companions await you:
Kealin- a defiant half-blood that has little care of the purist High Elves and their beliefs. Eager, skilled, and sometimes a bit cocky, he fights with furious zeal to protect those he cares about.
Alri- The only female elf in the group. Her powers are far beyond her brothers. As a potent magic-user training under the best of the arcane masters, she knows much about her deadly art but necromancy is her natural gift. With her, a power unlike that taught in her homeland is just within her grasp yet she doesn't realize it yet.
Taslun- A son after his father's image. Strong, loyal to Urlas, and at 800 years old nearly ready to go before the High Council and be christened as a Blade of Urlas. He is the last anyone expects to become defiant. As the oldest sibling, he naturally desires to look after the young ones. They'll need his skills if they are all to survive.
Calak- The youngest of the males and with equal qualities of being cocky and honorable. While he is capable with a sword, his true gift is in his love of astrology, history, and ancient knowledge. Where he lacks in fighting ability he makes up for what his more 'violence-centric' brothers see as 'boring'.
Valrin- Not an elf but also not a normal human. However, the greatest mystery to the half-elves is his level of knowledge of the vast Glacial Seas and what he seems to know but not say about their quest. A loyal companion that has known of the elven lands and the coming darkness on the seas far before the half-elves left their home, he is the key to much to come. He commands the Aela Sunrise, a not-so-simple sailing vessel crafted by the ancient Sea Peoples of the North.
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