Can Anyone Recommend me Magic/Superhero School or Guild Stories?
Here’s what I’ve read so far.
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Worm by Wildbow (Superhero “guild”)
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Mage Errant (Magic School)
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Harry Potter Series (Magic School)
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Vita Nostra (Magic School)
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Super Powereds (Superhero School)
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The Circle Series by Sara Elfgren (Magic within normal School)
I’ve also read The Magician but I didn’t liked it.
I may have forgotten some other books but hopefully this narrows it down.
Mother of Learning by Nobody103 - free webnovel, complete now I think. Wizard student gets stuck in a time loop and uses this opportunity to become OP and solve the mystery.
Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series, if middle grade is okay.
I second Earthsea.
Spellwright seems like it might be good but I haven’t got far in it yet.
The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan. It’s been a long time since I read this, but Canavan is one of those authors who’s popular and has a lot of books out but is weirdly never mentioned online.
Also try L.E. Modesitt Jr. If you haven’t. Either the order mage series, or Imager maybe. Most anything by him will have a lot of studying. They’re very good if you like his specific flavor of writing.
Edit: Vita Nostra being described as just “magic school” is very funny to me, although I do see where it comes from lol.
Edit 2: I remember the Charlie Bone books being good, but again those are middle grade and it’s been ages since I read them. No idea if they hold up.
The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane if middle grade is okay.
Spellwright also seems promising but I haven’t finished it myself.
The Book of the Ancestor series by Mark Lawrence.
A wizard of earthsea has the best magic school. It’s the start of a very loose series, but can be read by itself.
Annette Marie has a number of series set in her world of The Guild Codex. Urban fantasy where guilds of “mythics” (mages of various sorts) live hidden from the mundane world. The first series The Guild Codex: Spellbound is a good place to start, featuring a normal human woman stumbling into a bartending gig for such a guild. That 8 book series within the world is complete. Book one is “Three Mages and a Margarita.”
Super engaging, and has great audio narration if you’re into that as well.