Epic & High Fantasy All-Time Greats

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

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.

The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, betrayal and murder. The armies of the Empress have shattered long-established kingdoms and taken over the world. Now the gods themselves are taking sides. The Bridgeburners—a company of battered soldiers—find themselves pawns in a game between mortals and immortals, caught in a siege of the fabled city of Darujhistan.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. When the darkness stirs again, five young villagers from the Two Rivers are plucked from their ordinary lives and thrust into a world where they are hunted by the Dark One's forces. Among them may be the Dragon Reborn—the one destined to either save the world or break it.

An orphan's life is harsh and that's if he's lucky. Lucky Locke Lamora dodged the fates of most street kids: conscription, death, or slavery. Instead, he became a member of a thieving crew—the Gentlemen Bastards—who con the nobility of Camorr while the city's crime lord believes he's just running small-time scams.

Logen Ninefingers, a scarred barbarian. Jezal dan Luthar, a vain young officer angling for glory. Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled torturer who once endured the same. Three very different people are drawn together by the First of the Magi as a dark power stirs in the North.

A world divided. A dragon rising. Three women will determine the fate of everything. An epic standalone fantasy about three women on opposite sides of a religious war who must each make the choice between duty and the truth that could shatter their world.

This is the way the world ends. Again. Three women are torn apart by catastrophe on a continent long familiar with apocalypse, where the power of the earth can be wielded for destruction or salvation. Their stories interweave into a tale of survival, power, and the lengths a mother will go for her child.

Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father's stableman. When Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his only friend and begin his training as a royal assassin—with access to the mysterious magic known as the Skill.

Return to the world of the Stormlight Archive as the Alethi armies have finally breached the tower city of Urithiru. Shallan Davar travels to the Shattered Plains to find proof of her missing betrothed, and Kaladin continues his transformation from slave to soldier to something far greater.

The Omehi people have been at war for two hundred years. Every generation, a handful of women are chosen as Gifted—able to call down dragons during battle. Tau knows exactly what he wants: to fight in the war to avenge his father's death, no matter the cost to himself or those around him.

A century has passed since the gods fought and drove themselves to extinction. Now only their bones remain, promising great power to those brave enough to seek them out. As whispers of war echo cross the land of Vigrið, fate follows in the footsteps of three warriors: a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman pursuing battle fame and a thrall seeking vengeance among the mercenaries known as the Bloodsworn. All three will shape the fate of the world as it once more falls under the shadow of the gods.

The sorcerer Brandin has destroyed the kingdom of Tigana so completely that no one outside its borders can even speak its name—it has been erased from the world by magic. A small group of survivors plot to restore their land's identity, knowing they must overthrow a tyrant who has already proven he can unmake a nation.

In a famine-stricken village in 14th-century China, a girl disguises herself as her dead brother to claim his fate—greatness—and survive. Masquerading as a monk, she must rise through the ranks of a rebellion against the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty to become the person destiny intended her brother to be.

Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, stands at the precipice of destiny, ready to fulfill an ancient prophecy that will decide the fate of all creation. The long-feared Last Battle has begun, pitting the combined forces of light against the Shadow's insurmountable hordes. As nations clash and heroes fall, the world teeters on the brink of utter annihilation, its very fabric threatening to unravel. With humanity's last hope resting solely on his shoulders, Rand must confront the Dark One in a final, cataclysmic confrontation that will either save existence or condemn it to eternal darkness.

They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbour, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them. Bremer dan Gorst, disgraced master swordsman, has sworn to reclaim his stolen honour on the battlefield. Obsessed with redemption and addicted to violence, he's far past caring how much blood gets spilled in the attempt. Even if it's his own. Prince Calder isn't interested in honour, and still less in getting himself killed. All he wants is power, and he'll tell any lie, use any trick, and betray any friend to get it. Just as long as he doesn't have to fight for it himself. Curnden Craw, the last honest man in the North, has gained nothing from a life of warfare but swollen knees and frayed nerves. He hardly even cares who wins any more, he just wants to do the right thing. But can he even tell what that is with the world burning down around him? Over three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail. Three men. One battle. No Heroes.

Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, is the most feared mercenary general in the Styrian wars. When she is betrayed by the Grand Duke she serves and left for dead, she begins a ruthless campaign of revenge—one where the line between justice and monstrosity is dangerously thin.

At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls. A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass's care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family--and new enemies. Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona's secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself. Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way.

**The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 *New York Times* bestselling *Words of Radiance*, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, at the top of his game** In *Oathbringer*, the third volume of the *New York Times* bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe whose numbers are as great as their thirst for vengeance. Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: the enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, an din its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar is too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization. This description comes from the publisher. *Oathbringer* is the third book of the Stormlight Archive, the first of which is *The Way of Kings*.

The thrilling third volume in Steven Erikson's epic fantasy sequence, The Malazan Book of the Fallen.The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet, the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm's Host and the Bridgeburners ­ each now outlawed by the Empress ­ alongside their enemies of old including the grim forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, and his Tiste Andii, and the Rhivi people of the Plains.But more ancient clans too are gathering. As if in answer to some primal summons, the massed ranks of the undead T'lan Imass have risen. For it would seem something altogether darker and more malign threatens the very substance of this world. The Warrens are poisoned and rumours abound of the Crippled God, now unchained and intent on a terrible revenge...Marking the return of many favourite characters from GARDENS OF THE MOON and introducing a host of remarkable new players, MEMORIES OF ICE is a thrilling new chapter in Erikson's magnificent epic fantasy and another triumph of storytelling.