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Hey, all you YA fangirls and boys out there! I see you with your brooding male protagonists, your cruel damaged princes, your attractively depressed jocks… but it’s about time you got yourself a Real Man. Meet Elric of Melniboné! He is everything you need in a man: * Elric is

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The Magician King by Lev Grossman

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The Magicians by Lev Grossman

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The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #1) was published on October 25, 1988 by DAW Books.

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

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