Mouth Powers
1 months ago
[seeking fantasy book recs] SPECIFICALLY, examples of 'magic/wizard school' subgenre, for reasons
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Mouth Powers
1 months ago
I can think of/have already read:
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
the series that shall not be named, The Magicians, the Scholomance series, and Witch Week from the Chrestomanci quartet
Kira🌵
1 months ago
Magic for Liars (from the perspective of a non-wizardly PI whose sister is on the magic school faculty and who's investigating a murder on campus)
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Mouth Powers
1 months ago
- oh and have read some of the Discworld Wizards Books
Mad Larkin
1 months ago
Wizard of Earthsea has magic school stuff
Kira🌵
1 months ago
true, the first Earthsea book is all magic school + Dealing With Fucking Up Bad At Magic School (i love ged and his bad life choices)
Kira🌵
1 months ago
Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series is all about witch school
maruah
1 months ago
What age range?
maruah
1 months ago
Or is that a 'doesn't matter even if it's more for tweens'
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
honestly looking more for tweens/teens/young students (and possibly presumed readers) but open to the university-ish ones as well
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
- for I had also read Wizard of Earthsea and Year of the Griffin
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
*forgot
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
I had not got to Tiffany aching!!! I ignored all advice and was reading disc in chronological order and fell off about halfway through
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
and then the Mark Reads videos all went down
runedpumpkins
1 months ago
it's.. been a long time but I think Wizard's Hall was a magic school series.
Kira🌵
1 months ago
(Tiffany Aching is more YA than the standard Discworld books, I'd say!)
sakhr al-jinni.
1 months ago
the bartimaeus trilogy? not really a magic school but the first book has like. magic learning for a little boy
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
no, I'm specifically looking for school-setting stuff
sakhr al-jinni.
1 months ago
lmao.... carry on by rainbow rowell
sakhr al-jinni.
1 months ago
it's an obvious pastiche of harry potter but there is a magic school
pharadyne
1 months ago
I think The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan had a book involving magic school. (Although I read it 20 years ago so I can't remember much.)
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
lmao how could I forget carry on
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
I guess I SHOULD read it if Im doing a proper subgenre review
...does it have to be a good magic school?
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
no
The Wizard Heir by Cinda Williams Chima involves a Very Bad wizard school.
it is a distinctly anti-wizard series where Wizards are a ruling class among magical guilds and they use that to be Assholes
your mains are dissenters to that situation
it's the second in a series, but each one involves a single protagonist and they let you start anywhere really.
Mouth Powers
1 months ago
cool
best liars
1 months ago
Vita Nostra, but it’s mot YA
best liars
1 months ago
A Dark and Drowning Tide is mostly away from the school, but that is the back drop
best liars
1 months ago
Katabasis
El ☆
1 months ago
witchlings!
best liars
1 months ago
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath is more dragon school than magic school
best liars
1 months ago
Babel
best liars
1 months ago
The Atlas Six series
best liars
1 months ago
I’m scrolling through my read books on storygraph lol
best liars
1 months ago
The Alamaxa Duology, but only in fits and starts
for a price
1 months ago
Rivers of London probably doesn't count because it's more 'wizard protege/mentor, wizard school is not really a thing any more' but whatever I'll recommend it whenever it's even vaguely relevant
Jay
1 months ago
Tiffany Aching may be YA but it's excellent
Jay
1 months ago
and lol, I was going to remind you of Year of the Griffin (which was cute)
PG
1 months ago
The Worst Witch might be a little too kid lit, but I remember it being fun.
Icarian Habits
1 months ago
Not sure if the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane would help you, as it's not a school setting per se, but it's kids learning how to magic sort, similar to the Rivers of London books.
skipthedemon
1 months ago
Young Wizards is solidly YA (most of it written before that was a marketing category) and also seconding Tiffany Aching a little Different from most Discworld and excellent.
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