Books like “The Riddle-Master of Hed”

What to read after “The Riddle-Master of Hed” by Patricia A. McKillip: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan · 1990
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
Three young men from the village of Emond's Field are driven from home by monsters out of legend. Pursued by servants of the Dark One, they learn that one of them may be the Dragon Reborn, destined to save the world or break it.
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The Sword of Shannara
Terry Brooks · 1977
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
Shea Ohmsford lives a quiet life in the Shady Vale until the druid Allanon arrives with a warning: the Warlock Lord has returned, and only a descendant of the Shannara line can stop him. Shea sets out with a small band of companions to find the Sword of Shannara, the one weapon said to be able to destroy the Warlock Lord, before the Northland armies reach the Southland.
3
Malice
John Gwynne · 2012
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
The Banished Lands have known peace for years, but old rivalries are waking. Corban, son of a village lord, dreams of becoming a warrior; far away, a princess and a giant's son are caught up in the schemes of kings. A prophecy of the Bright Star and the Black Sun begins to unfold.
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Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings · 1982
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
Garion grows up on a quiet Sendarian farm, unaware of the forces watching him. When a mysterious storyteller and a royal sorceress arrive, he is drawn into a search for a stolen artefact, travelling with a company that hides its true purpose from him. The old prophecy of the Belgariad has begun to move.
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The Dragonbone Chair
Tad Williams · 1988
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
Simon is a kitchen boy in the castle of the Hayholt, who dreams of heroes while the old king's health fails. When betrayal strikes, he flees into a country of trolls and swords, and the fate of Osten Ard falls into unlikely hands.
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman · 1984
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Quest
After five years apart, old friends meet again at the Inn of the Last Home as war spreads across Krynn. A plain staff, a cleric without faith and rumours of dragons pull them into a quest to recover the Disks of Mishakal, the lost teachings of the true gods, and to stand against the Dragon Highlords.
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The Shadow of What Was Lost
James Islington · 2014
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Quest
Davian is an Augur, born with powers forbidden since the old war. When the laws of the Venerate turn against him, he flees with his friends in search of the man who might explain why the Augurs fell. What he finds tests everything he was taught to believe.
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Nine Princes in Amber
Roger Zelazny · 1970
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Quest
A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, drives out against his doctors' advice and begins to piece together who he is. He turns out to be Corwin, a prince of Amber, and Amber is the true world of which Earth is only a shadow.
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Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse · 2020
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
In the city of Tova a solar eclipse is coming, and with it an old prophecy of a god reborn. Xiala, a disgraced sea captain, is ordered to carry a strange young man to the city, while Serapio has been shaped since childhood for a ceremony he does not fully understand.
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Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb · 1995
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Wise Mentor
Fitz is the unacknowledged bastard son of a prince, raised in the shadows of the royal court. Trained secretly as an assassin and bonded to a wolf through the forbidden Wit, he must decide where his loyalty lies as the kingdom's politics turn treacherous.
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The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1954
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
Frodo inherits a golden ring that is far more than it seems, and learns it is the master ring of the enemy Sauron. With a company of dwarves, elves, men and a hobbit gardener, he sets out to carry it to the only place where it can be destroyed.
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The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson · 2010
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
On a storm-scoured world, a slave carries ancient honours, a scholar chases forbidden knowledge and a soldier guards a war that never ends. Their paths bend toward a returning danger few believe is real.