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so….do i make a post about other (re: better) magic school/wizard books or what?

because i have strong opinions!

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i want to read….

something that pre-dates jkr

young wizards by diane duane

wizard’s hall by jane yolen

a wizard of earthsea by ursula k leguin

the worst witch by jill murphy

the dark is rising by susan cooper

something for adults that is darker and edgier

the scholomance by naomi novik

magic for liars by sarah gailey

rivers of london by ben aaronovitch

an unkindness of magicians by kat howard

babel by rf kuang

vita nostra by marina and sergey dyachenko

ninth house by leigh bardugo

something for middle schoolers

witchlings by claribel a. ortega

the last fallen star by graci kim

the school for good and evil by soman chainani

the marvellers by dhonielle clayton

charlie bone by jenny nimo

maya and the rising dark by maya barron

something for young adults

hex hall by rachel hawkins

the old kingdom by garth nix

the left-handed booksellers of london by garth nix

the whispering dark by kelly andrew

in other lands by sarah rees brennan

the demon king by cinda williams chima

how to succeed in witchcraft by aislinn brophy

witch haven by sasha peyton smith

legendborn by tracy deonn

dark rise by cs pacat

pendragyn

a lot of books in the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey show the young Heralds as students at school

Nsibidi Scripts series (Akata Witch/Warrior/Woman) by Nnedi Okorafor (highly recommend)

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett is about Esk who inherited a wizards staff even tho she’s a girl. it’s an odd one tho, ngl.

the ones below are teacher and apprentice stories rather than off to a school to learn with the masses.

Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy (is old so might be showing its age)

the Mancer books by Don Callander (Pyromancer, Aquamancer, Aeromancer, Geomancer, Marbleheart) might be hard to find but they were cute.

And the Tiffany Aching quintet by Terry Pratchett starting with the Wee Free Men, which has Tiffany being apprenticed with different witches after a big adventure to save her baby brother. (love these books)

The Enchanted Forest series by Patricia C Wrede

More adult-oriented stories;

The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey (500 kingdom series) (has romance)

The Elemental Masters by Mercedes Lackey

Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede

The Cecilia and Kate novels by Patricia C Wrede (victorian epistolary books)

the Glamourist Histories by Mary Robinette Kowal (Austenish setting but with magic)

Riddle-Master series by Patricia A McKillip

The Warlock of Gramarye series by Christopher Stasheff (sci-fi with magic, probably hasn’t aged the best but I haven’t read them in ages)

A Wizard in Rhyme series by Christopher Stasheff (old, sci-fi with magic, alternate history)

The Dragon and the George by Gordon R Dickson (again, old)

I’m sure I’ve got more but I can’t remember lol

iamhisgloriouspurpose

150% recommend Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising”. The series is good, but that one—oof—by far my favorite. I re-read it most Decembers, because it’s just so well-written. Don’t be put off by the fact that you’ll find it in the YA/tweens section.

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I’d also love to throw Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant series into the mix! It starts with a 12 year old protagonist and follows her into adulthood. modern magic and crime solving with a skeleton detective

#need this

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one day im just gonna do it. im gonna vanish into the scottish highlands like god intended

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we need more books that are written like YA novels but have characters in their 20s… like I can’t keep reading books about teenagers but I’m also not ready for the weird adult romance section of the book store

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Ben Barnes was really doing the absolute MOST in all of his scenes. He was like: my entrance is going to be fabulous. In the first scene my presence will literally fill the tent. I will have so much sexual tension with the main character that you can almost physically see it. I am going to play a man who is absolutely lost but absolutely in love at the same time. And then I am going to embrace the darkness. The feral anger. The angst. I am going to look so good being bad everyone will hold their breath when I walk into the room. But still have SO much emotion. And then AND THEN in my backstory I am just going to be so full of emotions that you’re really left thinking ‘maybe the Darkling has points?’ I will treat every moment deathly seriously but also have moments of humor. I am on 110% mode every waking moment from my first arrival to when I walk out of the fold.

And I think that’s very sexy of him.

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From the US but i spell grey with an e because e just feels like a much greyer letter than a

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We need to thank the Navajo a nation! They all got out and voted with no cars and few polling places- their population was enough to swing BOTH Arizona and New Mexico

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This is Navajo organiser Allie Young and her “voting squad” on the way to the polls. They rode 10 miles to vote early!

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[Image: is a photograph of a group of eight Navajo people on horseback. End]

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89% of Navajo Nation came out in AZ and 97% voted for Biden. They make up the difference that Biden won AZ.

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I have noticed a distressing trend in my d&d party

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I mean you're not wrong exactly

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hi my name is destiel nevada putin elec’tion covid way and i have long ebony black hair

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“gays go to hell” factoid actually just statistical error. average gay goes to heaven. Gay Castiel, who was sent to super mega ultra hellx1000 after confessing gayness, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.