Books like The Wise Man's Fear
If you liked The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Name of the Wind
Because same series (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1); also by Patrick Rothfuss; shares tags: fantasy, music, epic.
Kvothe the Bloodless tells Chronicler how a clever Ruh boy survived loss, street life and the University to chase the Chandrian.
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The Eye of the World
Because shares tags: fantasy, epic, adventure.
Farm boys flee Trollocs with Moiraine and Lan, split at Shadar Logoth, and trek to the Eye in the Blight.
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Words of Radiance
Because shares tags: fantasy, epic, magic.
Kaladin guards Dalinar, Shallan hunts Urithiru, and the Everstorm gathers.
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The Color of Magic
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure, magic.
A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.
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Howl's Moving Castle
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic, adventure.
Cursed old by the Witch of the Waste, hatmaker Sophie Hatter talks her way into wizard Howl's moving castle and bargains with fire demon…
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A Darker Shade of Magic
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic, adventure.
Antari Kell Maresh, a blood magician who travels between Londons, meets thief Delilah Bard after she steals a stone of Black London magic…
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The Witches
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic, adventure.
A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure, magic.
Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.
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The Subtle Knife
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure, magic.
Will finds a window to Cittagazze, meets Lyra, and both hunt the knife that cuts between worlds.
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The Hero of Ages
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic, adventure.
Vin and Elend face ash, mist, and Ruin itself as the prophecies fail and Sazed searches old faiths for answers.
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Stardust
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure, magic.
Tristran Thorn climbs over the wall of Wall to fetch a fallen star and finds Yvaine, witches, and princes hunting her.
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Inkheart
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure, magic.
Bookbinder Mo reads characters alive and daughter Meggie is pulled into Capricorn's hunt for Inkheart.
