The Poison Throne (The Moorehawke Trilogy #1) by Celine Kiernan:

The Poison Throne (The Moorehawke Trilogy) When young Wynter Moorehawke returns to court with her dying father, she finds her old home shadowed with fear. The king has become a violent despot, terrorizing those he once loved. His son and heir Alberon has fled into exile and now there are whispers everywhere of rebellion. Meanwhile, Alberon's half-brother Razi has been elevated to his throne. He struggles to meet his King's demands while remaining loyal to his beloved brother and to his friend Wynter.

Now she must choose - her father or her dreams, her friend or her king, her duty or her love.


The Crowded Shadows (The Moorehawke Trilogy #2) by Celine Kiernan:

The Crowded Shadows (The Moorehawke Trilogy) Every tyrant who ever threatened the Kingdom is gathering to Alberon's table, and the forest is alive with spies, wolves, and bandits. Within these crowded shadows, Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke travels alone and unprotected, determined that she shall find the rebel prince and heal the rift that has come between the King and his legitimate heir. But who is an ally and who is a foe?

In this, the second volume of The Moorehawke Trilogy, old friends and even older enemies ensure that Wynter is never certain of who she can trust.

The Rebel Prince (The Moorehawke Trilogy #3) by Celine Kiernan:

The Rebel Prince (The Moorehawke Trilogy) Wynter Moorehawke has braved bandits and Loup-Garous to find her way to Alberon-the exiled, rebel prince. But now that she's there, she will learn firsthand that politics is a deadly mistress. With the king and his heir on the edge of war and alliances made with deadly enemies, the Kingdom is torn not just by civil war - but strife between the various factions as well. Wynter knows that no one has the answer to the problems that plague the Kingdom - and she knows that their differences will not just tear apart her friends - but the Kingdom as well.

Trickster's Choice (Daughters of the Lioness Series #1) by Tamora Pierce:

Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, Book 1) Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods. This is the first of two books featuring Alianne.

Trickster's Queen (Daughters of the Lioness Series #2) by Tamora Pierce:

Trickster's Queen (Aliane) Aly's adventure continues No longer a slave, Alanna s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen and her younger siblings safe, while also keeping her in the dark about her future. But Aly, who is usually adept at anticipating danger and changes, is in for a few nasty surprises.

Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce

First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet Keladry (known as Kel) is the first girl to take advantage of the decree that permits girls to train for the knighthood. The only thing that can stop her is Lord Wyldon, the training master of pages and squires. He does not think girls should be knights and puts her on probation More...for one year. It is a trial period that no male page has to endure and one that separates the friendly Kel even more from her fellow trainees. But Kel is not someone to underestimate. . . .

 

 

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles By Patricia C. Wrede

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Dealing with Dragons / Searching for Dragons / Calling on Dragons / Talking to Dragons

Collected together for the first time are Patricia C. Wrede's hilarious adventure stories about Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper. Every one of Cimorene's adventures is included in its paperback edition--Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons--in one handsome package that's perfect for gift giving.

 

The Un-Magician (Outcast, Book 1) by Christopher Golden

The Un-Magician (Outcast, Book 1)

Timothy is a freak, a weakling, an impossibility. He's the only person in existence without magical powers and has spent his entire life hidden on a remote island. When Timothy is finally taken back to the city of this birth, he is fascinated by the current of magic that fuels the world, and mesmerized by the buildings and orbs that hang weightlessly in the sky. But he is also marked for death.

Assassins are watching his every move, and the government wants him destroyed. Timothy can't imagine what threat he could possible pose; after all, he wields no power in this world. Or does he?

 

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

 

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

The Blue Sword

A teenage girl leading a dull and sheltered life heads off to the frontier in search of adventure and the legendary Free Hillfolk of Damar. She is kidnapped by the magical Hill-king and helps out in the struggle against the demonkind Northerners. Fabulous first instalment well liked by younger readers... followed by further adventures set in Damar.

 

 

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, Book 1)

A young noble-born girl, Alanna of Trebond, swaps places with her twin brother. Disguised as a boy she trains to become a knight, while her brother studies to become sorcerer. With its female protagonist Pierce's Song of the Lioness series has broad appeal to older girls and young women.

 

 

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy)

The first book, Assassin's Apprentice, has a bastard stablehand with royal blood ending up in training to be an assassin. The hero discovers he has a few dark magic tricks up his sleeve and is perceived by some to be a threat to the throne. Followed in successive years by Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest.

 

 

The Jackal of Nar by John Marco

The Jackal of Nar (Tyrants & Kings)

Marco refreshingly breaks the sword and sorcery mould by pitting science against magic in his Tyrants & Kings trilogy. This first book in the series has a defeated warrior setting out to combat the sorcerer Tharn in the service of his Emperor. Toss in a love-at-first-sight interest and a few underlying motivational twists and this is a rip-roaring fantasy epic.

 

 

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

The Final Empire (Mistborn, Book 1)

Robert Jordan's widow, Harriet McDougal, was so taken with this book that she asked Sanderson to complete the Wheel of Time series. A millennium has passed since the Lord Ruler's botched terraforming job left Scadrial ash-cloaked and misty. The Mistborn gain superhuman powers by 'burning' metals internally. Two rebel against oppression in a flurry of court intrigue and high adventure.

 

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1) Released to a wave of critical acclaim, a man posing as a humble innkeeper reveals his amazing life story to a biographer named Chronicler who has unearthed his true identity. This volume recounts Kvothe's earlier years tracing his path to learning higher magic. Dramatic tension is provided courtesy of the Chandrian, the legendary demons who murdered his family.

 

 

The Magicians Guild by Trudi Canavan

The Magicians' Guild: The Black Magician Trilogy Book 1 [Mass Market Paperback]

The Black Magician trilogy well and truly put her on the map internationally. In the first volume the magicians of Imardin go about their annual purge of the city's riff-raff. A girl fights back and, unexpectedly, proves to have the power to do it.