Best Academy Fantasy Books to Start With

When fifteen-year-old Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the mountains, he has no idea it will change his life forever. The stone hatches into a dragon, and Eragon soon discovers that he is the first Dragon Rider to be born in a generation—a fact that will make him either the savior or the ruin of the Empire.

Orphan soldier Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Shadow Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free.

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. When Laia's brother is arrested for treason, she must make an unimaginable choice. In a city of mirrors and shadows, two people discover that their fates are entwined.

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends -- one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena -- Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.

Quentin Coldwater is clever but unhappy, obsessed with a series of fantasy novels about a magical land called Fillory. When he is unexpectedly admitted to Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, he discovers that the magic he read about as a child is real—but so is the darkness that comes with it.

Violet Sorrengail is ordered into the war college for dragon riders rather than the scribe quadrant she was meant to join. Smaller and frailer than her classmates, she must bond a dragon or die trying — and the most powerful rider on campus seems determined to make sure she doesn't survive.

El Higgins is at a school full of monsters—and she's not talking about the students. The Scholomance has no teachers, no library, and no dining hall. It just has students, trying to learn enough magic to survive before monsters kill them. El has been assigned to the most dangerous room, and the only student willing to help her is the one she hates most.

Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his dreams — or dead. He assembles a crew of six dangerous outcasts to break into the most heavily guarded prison in the world. But with betrayal lurking at every corner, getting out alive is the real challenge.

Zélie Adeyemi remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Then, in one dark night, everything changed—maji were killed and magic disappeared. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy that took everything from her.

Scarlett has dreamed of attending Caraval—the legendary performance where the audience becomes a part of the show. When she finally receives an invitation, she discovers that this game is more dangerous than she imagined. In Caraval, even the smallest choices matter and every secret could be her last.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always felt he was meant for another world. When a mythic city appears out of nowhere and a band of legendary warriors arrives to recruit people for a rescue mission, Lazlo must decide how far to follow his dreams.

A young man grows up to become the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. Told in his own words, this is the story of Kvothe—from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic.

Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little reason to return to the Old Kingdom, where the dead do not always stay dead. But now her father—the Abhorsen—has gone missing, and Sabriel must cross the border into that magical country to find him and rescue him from Death itself.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, she still feels like an outsider, uncertain of her place in the brutal shifting political landscape of a world filled with glamour and lies.

In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle to compete in a deadly tournament. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors, she is released from prison and serves as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien.

17 år gamle Mare Barrow bor i et samfunn der samfunnet er delt av fargen på blodet, rødblods og sølvblods, der sølv har makten. De er lik elitesoldater med gudelignende egenskaper. Mare er rødblods. Hun får en jobb på Slottet, midt blant de hun hater mest. Hun finner ut at, til tross for sitt røde blod, så har hun en egen dødelig kraft. Denne kraften kan true hele verdensordenen. Nå sitter Mare midt i sølvblodsverdenen og hun prøver å bruke sin posisjon til å hjelpe Purpurgarden, som styrer det røde opprøret. Dette spillet om makt er livsfarlig, og er en klassisk kamp mellom overklasse og underklasse. Fantasy for ungdomstrinnet. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford - a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.

When Xingyin's mother is discovered to have illegally taken the elixir of immortality, Xingyin is forced to flee their home on the moon. Seeking safety in the Celestial Kingdom, she conceals her identity and trains as a soldier—all while searching for the rare ingredients that can free her mother from her imprisonment.